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“The History of Pi is so well written. It is really funny, really witty and charming – full of weird deadpan one-liners – but also incredibly opinionated. He says, ‘Not being a historian I am not obliged to wear the mask of dispassionate aloofness. Petr Beckmann was a Czech electrical engineer who lived in Czechoslovakia until he was 39 in 1963, when he went to America as a visiting professor and just stayed there.” Read more...
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What is Life?
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The Trouble With Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science, and What Comes Next
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Playing with Infinity
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The Honest Rainmaker
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Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
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One, Two, Three…Infinity
by George Gamow
