book recommendations?

[JustStuit]

Anybody recommend any particular science or math books? I'm hoping to find some interesting ones you guys like.

[JPQuiceno]

Sure! I have a pretty cool list.

 

Check Em` out:

 

Physics:

 

"The Mind Of God", Paul Davies

 

"A Brief History Of Time", Stephen Hawking

 

"Cosmos", Carl Sagan (Science In General)

 

Evoultion

 

 

'The Ancestors Tale", Richard Dawkins

 

 

Some of my favorites.

[Cap'n Refsmmat]

Physics:

 

The Fabric of the Cosmos by Brian Greene. Read carefully.

[5614]

Quantum physics:

 

[introduction for beginners]

 

In Search of Schrödinger's Cat

&

Schrödinger's Kittens

 

both by John Gribbin.

 

Otherwise do a search, there are many threads with book recommendations for all subjects and all levels... I was doing searches recently myself because I just got some physics books, search for "book" and books" in the title of the thread and you should get some results.

[krisse]

"The Ghost in the Atom" - An very interesting edited radio interview with some of the greatest pioneers in quantum mechanics.

 

"The Inflationary Universe" by Alan H. Guth - A great book by the co-founder of the inflationary "big bang" theory.

 

"The Elegant Universe" - Also by Brian Greene, and a more detailed description of the basic principles of string theory.

 

"Journey into Gravity and Spacetime" by John Archibald Wheeler - A semi-technical approach to special relativity by the master of GR for the layman of general science.

 

- These are all popular science books, if you want to go technical I have a lot more to recommend. Also I believe you can get a great deal of info from browsing Amazon.com reading comments.

 

If you if you want to go into detail on relativity (which you should) this site has a great walkthrough of some of the greatest books on the topic:

http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/physics/Administrivia/rel_booklist.html

 

Happy studying ;P

[Mokele]

Parasite Rex by Carl Zimmer (you'll never touch anything that hasn't been radiation-sterilized ever again after reading it).

[starbug1]

Any book by Carl Sagan is highly readable and worth your time.

 

I just finished "The Dragons of Eden" and I learned invaluable information in a relatively short book. You get the basics on evolutionary history, psychology, memes found in dreams, and the unique properties of the brain. I highly recommend it.