Posted Wed, 11/09/2011 - 7:48pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
October 2011
Brian Clegg is the author of the highly acclaimed Light Years and The First Scientist. He set up the Emerging Technologies Group, responsible for researching cutting-edge technologies. He currently runs his own creative consultancy business. This was a gift book. Read more
Posted Fri, 11/04/2011 - 11:49am by fred
Date Fred Read:
September 2011
Peter Olofsson is Associate Professor of Mathematics at Trinity University. He is an active researcher in the field of applied probability and is an experienced teacher. This book is at the general public level – for folks without much (or no) background in math. This gift book was from the same friend who gave me book 425. Read more
Posted Thu, 11/03/2011 - 2:34pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
September 2011
Michael Blastland is a writer, journalist, broadcaster, and the creator of More or Less, the BBC Radio-4 Show. Andrew Dilnot, the former host of the show, is the principle of St. Hugh’s College, Oxford, and was the director of England’s Institute for Fiscal Studies. This gift book was from the same friend who gave me book 426. Read more
Posted Fri, 10/29/2010 - 9:07pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
October 2010
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster
Mario Livio, a senior astrophysicist and head of the Office of Public Outreach at the Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute, conducts research on a broad range of topics in cosmology and astrophysics. He is the author of several books and often gives lectures to the general public. A friend gave me books 377 and 378. Read more
Posted Sat, 10/16/2010 - 6:16pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
October 2010
Publisher:
Harper Perennial; Reprint edition
Marcus du Sautoy is a professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford. The author of The Music of the Primes, he is a frequent contributor on mathematics to newspapers and radio, and has hosted several programs on BBC television. A friend gave me books 377 and 378. Read more
Posted Sun, 06/13/2010 - 6:44pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
June 2010
E.T. Bell (1883-1960), attended Stanford and Columbia, taught at U. of Washington and Cal Tech, was president of the Math. Assoc. of America, and a National Academy of Science member. This gift book is for math lovers. Read more
Posted Thu, 03/19/2009 - 10:08am by fred
Date Fred Read:
April 2007
Publisher:
Basic Books; Reprint edition
Douglas Hofstadter is Professor of Cognitive Science at Indiana Univefsity. In 2007 Amazon.com listed 8 books by him. [See my review of his splendid book 149 Gödel, Escher, and Bach (aka GEB).] Read more
Posted Tue, 03/17/2009 - 11:32am by fred
Date Fred Read:
December 2006
Publisher:
Penguin (Non-Classics)
Ray Kurzweil is an internationally recognized expert on computers and AI (artificial intelligence). Amazon.com lists his works in book, digital or audio. This book was a national bestseller. Read more
Posted Sun, 03/15/2009 - 6:01pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
June 2006
Publisher:
New York University Press
Ernest Nagel and James Newman describe for the layman the famous “Incompleteness Theorem” of the mathematics genius Kurt Gödel. It was updated and edited in 2001 by Douglas Hofstadter, who wrote the foreword. Read more
Posted Sat, 03/14/2009 - 2:07pm by fred
Date Fred Read:
February 2006
Publisher:
Basic Books; 20 Anv edition
Douglas R. Hofstadter is College Professor of Cognitive Science and Computer Science; Adjunct Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, Philosophy, Comparative Literature, and Psychology at Indiana University. (For his books I've read, click on his name.) Read more
