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tiwonge's "Recommended non-fiction"

Non-fiction books I’ve read and recommend or want to read.
1. A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes
by Stephen W Hawking
  
2. The God Particle: If the Universe Is the Answer, What Is the Question?
by Dick Teresi
  
3. Prime Obsession: Berhhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
by John Derbyshire
  
4. Who Wrote the Bible?
by Richard E. Friedman
  
5. The Man Who Knew Infinity: A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
by Robert Kanigel
  
6. The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth
by Paul Hoffman
  
7. The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography
by Simon Singh
  
8. Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem
by SIMON SINGH
  
9. A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam
by Karen Armstrong
  
10. Chaos: Making a New Science
by James Gleick
  
11. The Magical Maze: Seeing the World Through Mathematical Eyes
by Ian Stewart
  
12. The Mathematical Universe: An Alphabetical Journey Through the Great Proofs, Problems, and Personalities
by William Dunham
  
13. Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)
by Richard P. Feynman
  
14. Best Lessons of a Chess Coach (Chess)
by Sunil Weeramantry
  
15. Proofs from THE BOOK
by Martin Aigner
  
16. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, New Edition
by Jared Diamond
  
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Created by tiwonge on Aug 31, 2006.