Mathematician Biography Books
Exploring the Minds That Revolutionized Mathematics
Zero To One
Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future. Currency, 2014.
The Man Who Knew Too Much
Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer. Atlas Books, 2006.
The Disappearing Spoon
And Other True Tales of Madness, Love, and the History of the World from the Periodic Table of the Elements. Little, Brown and Company, 2010.
Stuff Matters
Exploring the Marvelous Materials that Shape Our Man-Made World. Mariner Books, 2015.
The Secret Lives of Color
The Secret Lives of Color. Penguin Books, 2017.
What If?
Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.
Midnight in Chernobyl
The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster. Transworld Digital, 2019.
The Code Breaker
Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race. Simon and Schuster, 2021.
Lifespan
Why We Age and Why We Don’t Have To. Atria Books, 2019.
A World Beneath the Sands
The Golden Age of Egyptology. W.W. Norton & Company, 2020.
Becoming a Data Head
How to Think, Speak, and Understand Data Science, Statistics, and Machine Learning. Wiley, 2021.
The 48 Laws of Power
The 48 Laws of Power. Penguin Books, 1998.
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