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Mathematician Biography Books

Exploring the Minds That Revolutionized Mathematics

Zero To One

Zero To One

Peter Thiel

Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future. Currency, 2014.

19 mins read

4 reads

The Man Who Knew Too Much

The Man Who Knew Too Much

David Leavitt

Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer. Atlas Books, 2006.

18 mins read

2 reads

The Disappearing Spoon

The Disappearing Spoon

Sam Kean

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.

21 mins read

2 reads

Stuff Matters

Stuff Matters

Mark Miodownik

Exploring the Marvelous Materials that Shape Our Man-Made World. Mariner Books, 2015.

20 mins read

0 reads

The Secret Lives of Color

The Secret Lives of Color

Kassia St. Clair

The Secret Lives of Color. Penguin Books, 2017.

19 mins read

1 reads

What If?

What If?

Randall Munroe

Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2014.

17 mins read

3 reads

Midnight in Chernobyl

Midnight in Chernobyl

Adam Higginbotham

The Untold Story of the World’s Greatest Nuclear Disaster. Transworld Digital, 2019.

16 mins read

1 reads

The Code Breaker

The Code Breaker

Walter Isaacson

Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race. Simon and Schuster, 2021.

21 mins read

1 reads

Lifespan

Lifespan

David A. Sinclair

Why We Age and Why We Don’t Have To. Atria Books, 2019.

18 mins read

4 reads

A World Beneath the Sands

A World Beneath the Sands

Toby Wilkinson

The Golden Age of Egyptology. W.W. Norton & Company, 2020.

20 mins read

2 reads

Becoming a Data Head

Becoming a Data Head

Alex J. Gutman

How to Think, Speak, and Understand Data Science, Statistics, and Machine Learning. Wiley, 2021.

21 mins read

7 reads

The 48 Laws of Power

The 48 Laws of Power

Robert Greene

The 48 Laws of Power. Penguin Books, 1998.

24 mins read

19 reads

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