description: French mathematician, physicist, engineer, and philosopher of science
100 results
Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else
by
Jordan Ellenberg
Published 14 May 2021
The Fractalist
by
Benoit Mandelbrot
Published 30 Oct 2012
The Clock Mirage: Our Myth of Measured Time
by
Joseph Mazur
Published 20 Apr 2020
The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street
by
Justin Fox
Published 29 May 2009
When Einstein Walked With Gödel: Excursions to the Edge of Thought
by
Jim Holt
Published 14 May 2018
The Elements of Marie Curie
by
Dava Sobel
Published 20 Aug 2024
Alex's Adventures in Numberland
by
Alex Bellos
Published 3 Apr 2011
From eternity to here: the quest for the ultimate theory of time
by
Sean M. Carroll
Published 15 Jan 2010
Lost in Math: How Beauty Leads Physics Astray
by
Sabine Hossenfelder
Published 11 Jun 2018
Surfaces and Essences
by
Douglas Hofstadter
and
Emmanuel Sander
Published 10 Sep 2012
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
by
James Gleick
Published 1 Mar 2011
Fodor's Normandy, Brittany & the Best of the North With Paris
by
Fodor's
Published 18 Apr 2011
The Perfect Bet: How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling
by
Adam Kucharski
Published 23 Feb 2016
What We Cannot Know: Explorations at the Edge of Knowledge
by
Marcus Du Sautoy
Published 18 May 2016
Is God a Mathematician?
by
Mario Livio
Published 6 Jan 2009
E=mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation
by
David Bodanis
Published 25 May 2009
The Great Convergence: Information Technology and the New Globalization
by
Richard Baldwin
Published 14 Nov 2016
The Creativity Code: How AI Is Learning to Write, Paint and Think
by
Marcus Du Sautoy
Published 7 Mar 2019
The Physics of Wall Street: A Brief History of Predicting the Unpredictable
by
James Owen Weatherall
Published 2 Jan 2013
Geek Wisdom
by
Stephen H. Segal
Published 2 Aug 2011
Chaos: Making a New Science
by
James Gleick
Published 18 Oct 2011
Complexity: A Guided Tour
by
Melanie Mitchell
Published 31 Mar 2009
Smarter Than You Think: How Technology Is Changing Our Minds for the Better
by
Clive Thompson
Published 11 Sep 2013
Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist
by
Kate Raworth
Published 22 Mar 2017
The Evolution of Everything: How New Ideas Emerge
by
Matt Ridley
Prime Obsession:: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
by
John Derbyshire
Published 14 Apr 2003
Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention--And How to Think Deeply Again
by
Johann Hari
Published 25 Jan 2022
A Beautiful Mind
by
Sylvia Nasar
Published 11 Jun 1998
Debunking Economics - Revised, Expanded and Integrated Edition: The Naked Emperor Dethroned?
by
Steve Keen
Published 21 Sep 2011
The Music of the Primes
by
Marcus Du Sautoy
Published 26 Apr 2004
A Man for All Markets
by
Edward O. Thorp
Published 15 Nov 2016
Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein’s Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time
by
Richard P. Feynman
,
Robert B. Leighton
and
Matthew Sands
Published 22 Mar 2011
Infinite Ascent: A Short History of Mathematics
by
David Berlinski
Published 2 Jan 2005
What Kind of Creatures Are We? (Columbia Themes in Philosophy)
by
Noam Chomsky
Published 7 Dec 2015
The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement
by
David Brooks
Published 8 Mar 2011
Big Bang
by
Simon Singh
Published 1 Jan 2004
A Brief History of Time
by
Stephen Hawking
Published 16 Aug 2011
Models. Behaving. Badly.: Why Confusing Illusion With Reality Can Lead to Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life
by
Emanuel Derman
Published 13 Oct 2011
Turing's Vision: The Birth of Computer Science
by
Chris Bernhardt
Published 12 May 2016
Symmetry and the Monster
by
Ronan, Mark
Published 14 Sep 2006
The Vanishing Face of Gaia: A Final Warning
by
James E. Lovelock
Published 1 Jan 2009
Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics
by
Jim Al-Khalili
Published 22 Oct 2012
The Rise of the Quants: Marschak, Sharpe, Black, Scholes and Merton
by
Colin Read
Published 16 Jul 2012
Safe Haven: Investing for Financial Storms
by
Mark Spitznagel
Published 9 Aug 2021
The Milky Way: An Autobiography of Our Galaxy
by
Moiya McTier
Published 14 Aug 2022
A Manual for Creating Atheists
by
Peter Boghossian
Published 1 Nov 2013
The Man Who Invented the Computer
by
Jane Smiley
Published 18 Oct 2010
Shorter: Work Better, Smarter, and Less Here's How
by
Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
Published 10 Mar 2020
Do Nothing: How to Break Away From Overworking, Overdoing, and Underliving
by
Celeste Headlee
Published 10 Mar 2020
The Story of Philosophy
by
Will Durant
Published 23 Jul 2012
The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives
by
Leonard Mlodinow
Published 12 May 2008
Erwin Schrodinger and the Quantum Revolution
by
John Gribbin
Published 1 Mar 2012
Fermat’s Last Theorem
by
Simon Singh
Published 1 Jan 1997
The Mind Is Flat: The Illusion of Mental Depth and the Improvised Mind
by
Nick Chater
Published 28 Mar 2018
The Fabric of the Cosmos
by
Brian Greene
Published 1 Jan 2003
The End of Theory: Financial Crises, the Failure of Economics, and the Sweep of Human Interaction
by
Richard Bookstaber
Published 1 May 2017
The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence
by
Benoit Mandelbrot
and
Richard L. Hudson
Published 7 Mar 2006
Physics in Mind: A Quantum View of the Brain
by
Werner Loewenstein
Published 29 Jan 2013
Lonely Planet France
by
Lonely Planet Publications
Published 31 Mar 2013
The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
by
Graham Farmelo
Published 24 Aug 2009
The Scientist as Rebel
by
Freeman Dyson
Published 1 Jan 2006
Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking
by
Richard E. Nisbett
Published 17 Aug 2015
Rush Hour: How 500 Million Commuters Survive the Daily Journey to Work
by
Iain Gately
Published 6 Nov 2014
Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (And How to Take Advantage of It)
by
William Poundstone
Published 1 Jan 2010
Life Is Simple: How Occam's Razor Set Science Free and Shapes the Universe
by
Johnjoe McFadden
Published 27 Sep 2021
Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever
by
Robin Wigglesworth
Published 11 Oct 2021
The Deep Learning Revolution (The MIT Press)
by
Terrence J. Sejnowski
Published 27 Sep 2018
Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
by
General Stanley McChrystal
,
Tantum Collins
,
David Silverman
and
Chris Fussell
Published 11 May 2015
Pathfinders: The Golden Age of Arabic Science
by
Jim Al-Khalili
Published 28 Sep 2010
Black Box Thinking: Why Most People Never Learn From Their Mistakes--But Some Do
by
Matthew Syed
Published 3 Nov 2015
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth's Past)
by
Cixin Liu
Published 11 Nov 2014
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
by
Jimmy Soni
and
Rob Goodman
Published 17 Jul 2017
Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe
by
Steven Strogatz
Published 31 Mar 2019
The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood
by
Rashid Khalidi
Published 31 Aug 2006
The Theory That Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant From Two Centuries of Controversy
by
Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
Published 16 May 2011
Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live
by
Nicholas A. Christakis
Published 27 Oct 2020
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
by
Robert M. Pirsig
Published 1 Jan 1974
Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration―and Why It’s Good for the Planet, the Economy, and Our Lives
by
Danny Dorling
and
Kirsten McClure
Published 18 May 2020
How to Read a Book
by
Mortimer J. Adler
and
Charles van Doren
Published 14 Jun 1972
The Human Cosmos: A Secret History of the Stars
by
Jo Marchant
Published 15 Jan 2020
Limitless: The Federal Reserve Takes on a New Age of Crisis
by
Jeanna Smialek
Published 27 Feb 2023
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
by
Brian Christian
and
Tom Griffiths
Published 4 Apr 2016
Investment: A History
by
Norton Reamer
and
Jesse Downing
Published 19 Feb 2016
A History of France
by
John Julius Norwich
Published 30 Sep 2018
God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History
by
Stephen Hawking
Published 28 Mar 2007
Coming of Age in the Milky Way
by
Timothy Ferris
Published 30 Jun 1988
Turing's Cathedral
by
George Dyson
Published 6 Mar 2012
The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race
by
Walter Isaacson
Published 9 Mar 2021
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks From the Stone Age to AI
by
Yuval Noah Harari
Published 9 Sep 2024
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined
by
Steven Pinker
Published 24 Sep 2012
The Age of Radiance: The Epic Rise and Dramatic Fall of the Atomic Era
by
Craig Nelson
Published 25 Mar 2014
Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought
by
Andrew W. Lo
Published 3 Apr 2017
Antifragile: Things That Gain From Disorder
by
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Published 27 Nov 2012
Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
by
W. Bernard Carlson
Published 11 May 2013
The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail-But Some Don't
by
Nate Silver
Published 31 Aug 2012
Types and Programming Languages
by
Benjamin C. Pierce
Published 4 Jan 2002
France (Lonely Planet, 8th Edition)
by
Nicola Williams
Published 14 Oct 2010
How the Mind Works
by
Steven Pinker
Published 1 Jan 1997
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
by
Iain McGilchrist
Published 8 Oct 2012
The Rough Guide to France (Travel Guide eBook)
by
Rough Guides
Published 1 Aug 2019