A Beautiful Mind
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The Man Who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdos and the Search for Mathematical Truth
by Paul Hoffman  
Publisher Comments Paul Erdos, the most prolific and eccentric mathematician of our time, forsook all creature comforts — including a home — to pursue his lifelong study of numbers. He was a man who possessed unimaginable powers of thought yet was unable to...
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Galileo's Daughter: A Historical Memoir of Science, Faith, and Love
by Dava Sobel
Publisher Comments While Galileo Galilei was under house arrest, accused of heresy for his claim that the earth revolved around the sun, his daughter Virginia, a cloistered nun, proved to be her father's greatest source of strength through the difficult years of his trial...
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Wizard : the Life and Times of Nikola Tesla : Biography of a Genius (96 Edition)
by Marc J. Seifer Publisher Comments Nikola Tesla (1856-1943), credited by many as the inspiration for radio, robots, and even radar, has been called the patron saint of modern electricity. Yet very few people know about his life and work. Based on original source materials and previously...
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My Brain Is Open : the Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdos (98 Edition)
by Bruce Schechter Publisher Comments Paul Erdõs, one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century, and certainly the most eccentric, was internationally recognized as a prodigy by age seventeen. Hungarian-born Erdõs believed that the meaning of life was to prove and...
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Genius: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman
by James Gleick
Publisher Comments From the author of the national bestseller Chaos comes an outstanding biography of one of the most dazzling and flamboyant scientists of the 20th century that "not only paints a highly attractive portrait of Feynman but also . . . makes for a stimulating...
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Quiet Room : a Journey Out of the Torment of Madness (94 Edition)
by Lori Schiller Publisher Comments Schiller's gripping, heart-rending and ultimately triumphant story of her journey into madness and back to reality is told through the voices of Lori and her family, friends and doctor, and captures a rare, astoundingly vivid view into the inner life of...
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Albert Einstein: A Biography
by Albrecht Folsing Publisher Comments "(Folsing) provides a nuanced, nonjudgmental personal portrait resting firmly on prodigious archival work. Albert Einstein allows us to see deeply into (his) inner world". -- Alan Lightman, The New York Review of Books The name of Albert Einstein has...
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The Outsider: A Journey Into My Father's Struggle with Madness
by Nathani Lachenmeyer Publisher Comments The Outsider" is an unsentimental yet profoundly moving look at one family's experience with mental illness. In 1978, Charles Lachenmeyer was a happily married professor of sociology who lived in the New York suburbs with his wife and nine-year-old son...
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Fermat's Last Theorem: Unlocking the Secret of an Ancient Mathematical Problem
by Amir Aczel Publisher Comments Over three hundred years ago, a French scholar scribbled a simple theorem in the margin of a book. It would become the world's most baffling mathematical mystery. <BR>Simple, elegant, and utterly impossible to prove, Fermat's Last Theorem captured...
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Strange Beauty: Murray Gell-Mann and the Revolution in Twentieth-Century Physics
by George Johnson Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. [405]-409) and index....
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A Beautiful Mind: A Biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994
by Sylvia Nasar
Publisher Comments The dramatic story of John Forbes Nash, Jr., a mathematical genius who slipped into madness at the height of his career, endured three decades of schizophrenia, and, after a miraculous recovery, was awarded the Nobel Prize for his groundbreaking work. of...
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Einstein: A Life
by Denis Brian Description Includes bibliographical references(p. 481-489) and index....
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