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Last modified: Mon Dec 15 22:45:27 EST 2003
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I enjoy reading books, especially biographies of
mathematicians, scientists or engineers . Following is a partial
list of books (and my personal ratings) that I have read with a
great joy and excitement for the last few years, all of which
are, one way or the other, somewhat related to the "Science".
"If it's
green, it's biology, If it stinks, it's chemistry, If it has
numbers, it's math, If it doesn't work, it's technology." -- Unknown
(Note: All images below are taken from either Amazon.com or Aladdin.com and thus their properties)
| Book
| Title and Author
| Rating (1 - 5)
|
| The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth
by Paul Hoffman
| 5
|
| Evolution: The Triumph of an Idea
by Carl Zimmer
| 5
|
| Out of Their Minds: The Lives and Discoveries of 15 Great Computer Scientists
by Cathy A. Lazere, Dennis Elliott Shasha
| 3
|
| The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
by Thomas S. Kuhn
| 3
|
| Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem
by Simon Singh, John Lynch
| 5
|
| A BEAUTIFUL MIND: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994
by Sylvia Nasar
| 4
|
| The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time
by Jonathan Weiner
| 4
|
| Linked: The New Science of Networks
by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
| 4
|
| Small Worlds
by Duncan J. Watts
| 3
|
| The Origin of Species
by Charles Darwin
| 5
|
| Uncle Petros and Goldbach's Conjecture
by Apostolos K. Doxiades
| 4
|
| I Have Landed: The End of a Beginning in Natural History
by Stephen Jay Gould
| 4
|
| "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
by Richard Phillips Feynman
| 4
|
|
Godel's Proof
by Ernest Nagel, James Roy Newman, Douglas R. Hofstadter
| 4
|
| Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time
by Dava Sobel
| 3
|
| Free as in Freedom: Richard Stallman's Crusade for Free Software
by Sam Williams
| 2
|
| Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey
by Jane Goodall
| 4
|
| The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
by Robert Kanigel
| 3
|
| Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary
by Linus Torvalds, David Diamond
| 3
|
| Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
by Dava Sobel
| 3
|
| Strange Brains and Genius : The Secret Lives Of Eccentric Scientists And Madmen
by Clifford A. Pickover
| 3
|