Recommended Books

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Numeracy

  • 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).

Science

  • 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).

Scientific Biography

  • 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).

History of Science

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

Science and Society

  • 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).
  • Chris Mooney, The Republican War on Science (Basic Books, New York, 2005).
  • 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).

Philosophy of Science

  • 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).
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