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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 Quantum Doctor: A Physicist's Guide to Health and Healing
Amit Goswami
Hampton Roads Pub Co, 2004
"...reinterprets leading modalities..."
Like so many others, I define consciousness as the primary reality. Therefore, the physical reality becomes the illusory one. This is all well and good until the physical reality starts to show signs of illness and disease. Then we see who is really able to walk ...
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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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Odd Boy Out: Young Albert Einstein
Don Brown
Sandpiper, 2008
Odd boy out is one great book!
Odd boy out is a wonderful book with nice illustraions of the life of Albert Einstein.
Albert was born a fat baby with a big head. He had a bad temper
and was condsidered very odd. He didn't like to play sports, and he was disturbed with the things other boys ...
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The Los Alamos Primer: The First Lectures on How To Build an Atomic Bomb
Robert Serber
University of California Press, 1992
Great book on the physics of the bomb
This is a truly exciting book for people with the desire to understand bomb physics. This book consists out of the original lecture notes from a series of seminars given in 1943 to the bomb scientists at the start of the Manhattan Project. These lecture notes are ...
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