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The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of ...

Robert Kanigel

A biography of the Ramanujan describes how the natural genius of an unschooled Indian clerk came to the attention of a preeminent mathematician and the world. Reprint.

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Published: Jun 1992

The Reluctant Mr. Darwin: An Intimate...

David Quammen

A fresh look at Darwin's most radical idea, and the mysteriously slow process by which he revealed it.Evolution, during the early nineteenth century, was an idea in the air. Other thinkers had suggested it, but no one had proposed a c...

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Published: Jul 2007

Obsessive Genius: The Inner World of ...

Barbara Goldsmith

Draws on diaries, letters, and family interviews to discuss the lesser-known achievements and scientific insights of the Nobel Prize-winning scientist and producer of radium, documenting how she was compromised by the prejudices of a ...

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Published: Oct 2005

Genius: The Life and Science of Richa...

James Gleick

From the author of the national bestseller Chaos comes an outstanding biography of one of the most dazzling and flamboyant scientists of the 20th century that 'not only paints a highly attractive portrait of Feynman but also . . . mak...

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Published: Nov 1993

The Imitation Game: Alan Turing, the ...

Andrew Hodges

It is only a slight exaggeration to say that the British mathematician Alan Turing (1912-1954) saved the Allies from the Nazis, invented the computer and artificial intelligence, and anticipated gay liberation by decades--all before h...

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Published: Sep 2014

Descartes's Secret Notebook: A True T...

Amir D. Aczel

Rene Descartes (1596–1650) is one of the towering and central figures in Western philosophy and mathematics. His apothegm "Cogito, ergo sum" marked the birth of the mind-body problem, while his creation of so-called Cartes...

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Published: Oct 2006

The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics...

Amir D. Aczel

From the end of the 19th century until his death, one of history's most brilliant mathematicians languished in an asylum. The Mystery of the Aleph tells the story of Georg Cantor (1845-1918), a Russian-born German who created set theo...

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Published: Sep 2001

The Autobiography of a Transgender Sc...

Ben Barres

A leading scientist describes his life, his gender transition, his scientific work, and his advocacy for gender equality in science. Ben Barres was known for his groundbreaking scientific work and for his groundbreaking advocacy for ...

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Published: Sep 2020

Oppenheimer: Portrait of an Enigma

Jeremy Bernstein

A study of the great nuclear physicist is an intensely interesting biographical profile, both personal and historical, Oppenheimer brings the reader close to the life and workings of an extraordinary and controversial man. an extraord...

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Published: Sep 2005

Curious Minds: How a Child Becomes a ...

John Brockman

A fascinating collection of essays from twenty-seven of the world’s most interesting scientists about the moments and events in their childhoods that set them on the paths that would define their lives.What makes a child decide ...

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Published: Sep 2005

The Emperor of Scent: A True Story of...

Chandler Burr

The Emperor of Scent tells of the scientific maverick Luca Turin, a connoisseur and something of an aesthete who wrote a bestselling perfume guide and bandied about an outrageous new theory on the human sense of smell. Drawing on cutt...

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Published: Feb 2004

The Science of Leonardo: Inside the M...

Fritjof Capra

Leonardo da Vinci's pioneering scientific work was virtually unknown during his lifetime. Now acclaimed scientist and bestselling author Fritjof Capra reveals that Leonardo was in many ways the unacknowledged "father of modern sc...

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Published: Dec 2008

Carrying the Fire: An Astronaut's Jou...

Michael Collins

Reissued with a new preface by the author on the fiftieth anniversary of the Apollo 11 journey to the moonThe years that have passed since Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon i...

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Published: Jun 2019

A Lab of One's Own: One Woman's Perso...

Rita Colwell

A “beautifully written” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) memoir-manifesto from the first female director of the National Science Foundation about the entrenched sexism in science, the elaborate detours women have take to b...

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Published: Aug 2021

Autobiographies

Charles Darwin

Self-taught and ambitious, Charles Darwin is most famous for his groundbreaking-and to some still controversial-theory of evolution and natural selection. In Autobiographies the great scientist weighs his career and his life. Darwin'...

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Published: Sep 2002

Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and...

John Derbyshire

In 1859, Bernhard Riemann, a little-known thirty-two year old mathematician, made a hypothesis while presenting a paper to the Berlin Academy titled "On the Number of Prime Numbers Less Than a Given Quantity." Today, after 1...

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Published: Jun 2004

Sunburst and Luminary: An Apollo Memo...

Don Eyles

In 1966 the author, newly graduated from college, went to work for the MIT laboratory where the Apollo guidance system was designed. His assignment was to program the complex lunar landing phase in the Lunar Module's onboard computer....

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Published: Nov 2019

Stephen Hawking: An Unfettered Mind

Kitty Ferguson

Kitty Ferguson, the award-winning and international bestselling author of Stephen Hawking’s biography, presents an even deeper portrait of the legendary physicist’s life and scientific theories.This updated edition of Stephen Hawk...

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Published: Jan 2017

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!":...

Richard P. Feynman

One of the most famous science books of our time, the phenomenal national bestseller that \"buzzes with energy, anecdote and life. It almost makes you want to become a physicist\" (Science Digest).\n\nRichard P. Feynman, winner of the...

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Published: Feb 2018

"What Do You Care What Other People T...

Richard P. Feynman

A thoughtful companion volume to the earlier Surely You Are Joking Mr. Feynman!. Perhaps the most intriguing parts of the book are the behind-the-scenes descriptions of science and policy colliding in the presidential commission to d...

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Published: Feb 2018

Notable Notebooks: Scientists and The...

Jessica Fries-Gaither

Notable Notebooks: Scientists and Their Writings brings to life the many ways in which everyone from Galileo to Jane Goodall has used a science notebook, including to sketch their observations, imagine experiments, record data or jus...

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Published: Apr 2017

Einstein: His Space and Times (Jewish...

Steven Gimbel

A revealing new portrait of Albert Einstein, the world's first scientific "superstar" The commonly held view of Albert Einstein is of an eccentric genius for whom the pursuit of science was everything. But in actuality, the ...

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Published: Mar 2019

Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox...

Rebecca Goldstein

'A gem….An unforgettable account of one of the great moments in the history of human thought.'—Steven PinkerA masterly introduction to the life and thought of the man who transformed our conception of math forever. Kurt Gödel is ...

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Published: Feb 2006

Beyond Innocence: An Autobiography in...

Jane Goodall

The second volume of Jane Goodall's remarkable self-portrait in letters, Beyond Innocence details some of the eminent scientist's greatest triumphs and her deepest tragedies. It covers the years following the publication of her ground...

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Published: Oct 2002

Reason for Hope: A Spiritual Journey

Jane Goodall

As a young woman, Jane Goodall was best known for her groundbreaking fieldwork with the chimpanzees of Gombe, Africa. Goodall's work has always been controversial, mostly because she broke the mold of research scientist by developing ...

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Published: Oct 2000

Through a Window: My Thirty Years wit...

Jane Goodall

Through aWindow is the dramatic saga of thirty years in the life of an intimately intertwined community-one that reads like a novel, but is one of the most important scientific works ever published.The community is Gombe, on the shore...

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Published: Apr 2010

View Master

Gretchen Jane Gruber

William B. Gruber, inventor of the 3D system the View-Master, lived a life as colorful and vibrant as the images he captured in his photos. His biography is a look into the mind of a genius. The events leading up to his kidnapping of...

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Published: Mar 2015

How to Make a Spaceship: A Band of Re...

Julian Guthrie

A New York Times bestseller! The historic race that reawakened the promise of manned spaceflightWinner of the 2016 Eugene E. Emme Award for Astronautical LiteratureA Finalist for the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing AwardAlo...

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Published: Sep 2017

First Man: The Life of Neil A. Armstr...

James R. Hansen

Soon to be a major motion picture, this is the first—and only—definitive authorized account of Neil Armstrong, the man whose "one small step" changed history.When Apollo 11 touched down on the Moon's surface in 1969, the...

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Published: May 2018

The Man Who Caught the Storm: The Lif...

Brantley Hargrove

The saga of the greatest tornado chaser who ever lived: a tale of obsession and daring and an extraordinary account of humanity’s high-stakes race to understand nature’s fiercest phenomenon from Brantley Hargrove, “one of todayâ...

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Published: Apr 2019
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