Recommended Books

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John Allen Paulos, Innumeracy : Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences (Hill and Wang, New York, 1988).
John Allen Paulos, A Mathematician Reads the Newspaper (Anchor Books, New York, 1996).
Edward Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Graphics Press, 2nd edition, 2001).

Peter Atkins, Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2003).
Richard Dawkins, The Ancestor's Tale (Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2004).
Stephen Jay Gould, The Panda's Thumb (W.W Norton and Company, New York, 1982).
Brian L. Silver, The Ascent of Science (Oxford University Press, New York, 1998).

Richard Phillips Feynman, Surely you're Joking, Mr. Feynman! : Adventures of a Curious Character, as told to Ralph Leighton; edited by Edward Hutchings (W.W. Norton, New York, 1985).
James Gleick, Isaac Newton (Pantheon Books, New York, 2003).
Oliver Sacks, Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood (Vintage Books, New York, 2002).

Richard Rhodes, The Making of the Atomic Bomb (Simon & Schuster, New York, 1986)

Jacob Bronowski, The Ascent of Man (Little Brown and Company, Boston, 1973).
James Burke, Connections (Little, Brown, Boston, 1978).
Martin Gardner, Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (Dover Publications, New York, 1957).
Robert L. Park, Voodoo Science: the Road from Foolishness to Fraud (Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2000).
James Randi, An Encyclopedia of Claims, Frauds, and Hoaxes of the Occult and Supernatural (St. Martin's Press, New York, 1995).
Carl Sagan, The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Random House, New York, 1996).

Karl R. Popper, Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge (Routledge, New York, 1963).
Karl R. Popper, The Logic of Scientific Discovery (Harper Torchbooks, New York, 1959).