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The BEST books for and about Science (and Mathematics)
It's very difficult to find good reading in these areas. Much of the modern material gets very difficult very quickly and the old is, well - old. Anyway, a few of mine - more in a historical or biographical vein
Men of Mathematics by E T Bell. It's a two volume penguin set, with great pen portraits of the major mathematicians.
Prime Obsession by John Derbyshire (suitable for top senior students, the last few chapters are very difficult)
Remarkable Physicists by Ioan James. 7-page snippet biographies of 50 physicists - from Galileo to Yukawa.
The Sleepwalkers by Arthur Koestler - mainly a history of astronomy, but it moves to modern physics by the end. As a journalist, Koestler has a great eye for a pithy and amusing quote.
I haven't read John Gribbin's History of Science yet - it ought to be in school libraries however.
Euclid's Window: the story of geometry from parallel lines to hyperspace by Leonard Mlodinow (again the last chapters are a bit trick for high school seniors - ah, well, they were tricky for me anyway!)
Physics in the 20th Century by Curt Suplee is exactly what it says. In a well-illustrated book Suplee takes you through modern physics in theory, experiment and practice.
The Lunar Men by Jenny Uglow is a wonderful picture of the life and times of a small group of adventurous men who were fascinated by everything experimental. (Wedgewood, Boulton, Erasmus Darwin, Priestley, Watt. Hutton and others)
Men of Mathematics by E T Bell. It's a two volume penguin set, with great pen portraits of the major mathematicians.
Prime Obsession by John Derbyshire (suitable for top senior students, the last few chapters are very difficult)
Remarkable Physicists by Ioan James. 7-page snippet biographies of 50 physicists - from Galileo to Yukawa.
The Sleepwalkers by Arthur Koestler - mainly a history of astronomy, but it moves to modern physics by the end. As a journalist, Koestler has a great eye for a pithy and amusing quote.
I haven't read John Gribbin's History of Science yet - it ought to be in school libraries however.
Euclid's Window: the story of geometry from parallel lines to hyperspace by Leonard Mlodinow (again the last chapters are a bit trick for high school seniors - ah, well, they were tricky for me anyway!)
Physics in the 20th Century by Curt Suplee is exactly what it says. In a well-illustrated book Suplee takes you through modern physics in theory, experiment and practice.
The Lunar Men by Jenny Uglow is a wonderful picture of the life and times of a small group of adventurous men who were fascinated by everything experimental. (Wedgewood, Boulton, Erasmus Darwin, Priestley, Watt. Hutton and others)
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