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Einstein: His Life and Universe
Walter Isaacson
Simon & Schuster, 2008
Wonderful
An enlightening look at Einstein's life from birth to death and everythinig inbetween. There was just enough discusion of physics to give you a background, but comprehendable to the non-physists of the world. The author covered the creation of the theory of relativity, ...
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Einstein's Dreams
Alan Lightman
Vintage, 2004
A Dream To Read
Each chapter of this slim volume invites you to see the physical and metaphysical worlds through new eyes. And each chapter is its own short story, connected through the metaphor of Einstien dreaming about different physical realities. But in the end, the stories are ...
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Angels & Demons
Atria Books, 2004
Dan Brown's Series
A wonderful and thrilling read from chapter one. Looked forward to every free moment to continue were I left off.
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The Last Theorem
Arthur C. Clarke, Frederik Pohl
Del Rey, 2008
The Last Theorem
Very enjoyable book, Sir Lanka native Ronji a mathmatical wizard takes the reader on a journey of inter development as he progress through life and those around him while twisting the plot into a sci fi visits from beyond earth galaxy. I really enjoy reading the space ...
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)
Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton
W. W. Norton & Company, 1997
Breezy and informative read for any scientist!
The reviews here claim that Feynman was an egotist and it stained the reading of this book. However, I disagree completely. Feynman never claims to be self-deprecating or modest. In fact, I appreciate his candidness!
I was afraid to read this book because it was ...
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Reinventing Gravity: A Physicist Goes Beyond Einstein
John W. Moffat
Collins, 2008
Bringing Cosmology Back to Earth
For years, informed readers have looked on with increasing dismay as cosmology has drifted toward the shoals of absurdity, A powerful orthodoxy espousing such unproven and possibly unprovable exotica as strings, singularities, dark matter, and dark energy is ...
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American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin
Vintage, 2006
Missing book
I cannot find this book. It came with one other book that I am now reading. I can't remember if this book was actually including in the package (as indicating by the packing statement)and it got immediately misplaced or accidentally thrown out with the package or if it ...
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Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character
Richard P. Feynman
W. W. Norton, 2005
Inspirational
The stories in this book gave be belly laughs, and they also made me think.
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What Do You Care What Other People Think?: Further Adventures of a Curious Character
Richard P. Feynman
W. W. Norton & Company, 2001
Feynman was a great man
Not quite as funny as "Surely You're Joking Mr. Feynman", but just as touching. A pleasure to read. This books makes us like not only the man, but it also inspires us to join his quest for scientific knowledge and rational thinking.
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Einstein: His Life and Universe
Walter Isaacson
Simon & Schuster, 2008
By the author of the acclaimed bestseller Benjamin Franklin , this is the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available. How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson's biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story is a ...
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Disturbing The Universe (Sloan Foundation Science Serie)
Freeman J. Dyson
Basic Books, 2001
More Truthful than Science
I was first introduced to Freeman Dyson as a colleague and sometimes other half of Richard Feynman. I regret that during our brief meetings I never got to know him for being more than a physicist. Therefore, when I started reading this book I was expecting something ...
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My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance
Emanuel Derman
Wiley, 2007
Appreciation for author's effort
Though I barely have a clue about the models presented in the book, the author provided a very informative and descriptive view of life as a Quant. It even gives a picture of working in Wall Street. I thank the author for his effort.
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The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell
Basil Mahon
Wiley, 2004
A GREAT BIOGRAPHY OF THE GREASTEST SCIENTIST OF ALL TIMES: JAMES CLERK MAXWELL
Certainly not only mainstream physics is not on the right track- see my review of The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics, by his same father, Erwin Schrodinger- but history too.
After reading this excellent biographical book by Basil Mahon, of the greatest ...
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Picasso at the Lapin Agile and Other Plays
Steve Martin
Grove Press, 1997
Worth it for Picasso
I think in reality this probably deserves 4 stars, but I love "Picasso at the Lapin Agile" too much to rate it anything below 5. It's a great read and a lot of fun to act. It's funny on so many levels - everything from wacky and silly to crude to smart to dry humor ...
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Tuxedo Park : A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II
Jennet Conant
Simon & Schuster, 2003
Achievement with a Capital "A"?
Having been a Radarman in the Vietnam War, I found the gensis of radar and the man responsible for it and many other things in life. Albert Loomis was a giant in the first half of the 20th Century and under the radar. He may have been bigger in the first half of the ...
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