Science Books

Revision as of 12:54, 29 May 2007

This is a transcribe of the Science Books thread in the Science Subforum, a cumulative list of various members' recommended reading. Recommendations can include anything from Chemistry, to Mathematics, all the way to that fiddly little thing we know as Quantum Mechanics, so long as it is a branch of Science, it's there.

Books

By Title

Arcadia - A Play by Tom Stoppard
The End of Certainty by Ilya Prigogine
Out of Control by Kevin Kelly
A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
The First Three Minutes by Steven Weinberg
Warped Passages by Lisa Randall
Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick
Disturbing the Universe by Freeman Dyson
The Elegant Universe by Brian Greene
Asimov on Physics by Issac Asimov
The Character of Physical Law by Richard Feynman
Black Holes and Time Warps by Kip Thorne
The Whole Shebang by Timothy Ferris
The Feynman Lectures on Computation by Richard Feynman, et. al.
Just Six Numbers by Martin Rees
Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh
A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson
The Code Book by Simon Singh
Chaos - Making a New Science by James Gleick
[Lonely Hearts of the Cosmos] by Dennis Overbye
[Asimov's New Guide to Science] by Issac Asimov
[Universe] by William J. Kaufman
[In Search Of The Big Bang] by John Gribbin
The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan
Cosmos by Carl Sagan
God Created The Integers by Stephen Hawking
Before the Fallout by Diana Preston
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott
Einstein in Berlin by Thomas Levenson
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman, et. al.
What Do You Care What Other People Think? by Richard Feynman, et. al.
[In Search of Schrodinger's Cat] by John Gribbin
Fireworks, The Art, Science and Technique by Takeo Shimizu
The Chemistry of Fireworks by M S Russell
Bottle rocket handbook by Pulse-Jets.com
Fuzzy Logic by Daniel McNeill
Before It's Too Late by Bernard Cohen
The The Nuclear Energy Option by Bernard Cohen
Nuclear Science and Society by Bernard Cohen
Big Bang by Simon Singh
Once Upon A Number by John Allen Paulos

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 * [http://www.amazon.com/Flatland-Romance-Dimensions-Thrift-Editions/dp/048627263X/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-5773484-5043959?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1180269664&sr=1-1 Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions] by Edwin A. Abbott
 * [http://www.amazon.com/Einstein-Berlin-Thomas-Levenson/dp/0553378449/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-5773484-5043959?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1180266882&sr=1-1 Einstein in Berlin] by Thomas Levenson
-* [http://www.amazon.com/Surely-Feynman-Adventures-Curious-Character/dp/0393316041/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-5773484-<br%20/><br%20/>5043959?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1180274760&sr=8-1 Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!] by Richard Feynman, et. al.
+* [http://www.amazon.com/Surely-Feynman-Adventures-Curious-Character/dp/0393316041/ref=sr_1_1/102-1521130-5252100?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1180407248&sr=1-1 Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!] by Richard Feynman, et. al.
 * [http://www.amazon.com/What-Care-Other-People-Think/dp/0393320928/ref=pd_bxgy_b_text_b/104-5773484-5043959?ie=UTF8&qid=1180274760&sr=8-1 What Do You Care What Other People Think?] by Richard Feynman, et. al.
 * [In Search of Schrodinger's Cat] by John Gribbin