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2006 Read List
6. Pandora by Anne Rice
7. Life's Other Secret: New Mathematics of the Living World by Ian Stewart [a bookring]
8. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
This last in particular made me think that
regyt might like it. Currently I have no plans for it.
7. Life's Other Secret: New Mathematics of the Living World by Ian Stewart [a bookring]
8. The Professor and the Madman: A Tale of Murder, Insanity, and the Making of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
This last in particular made me think that
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I think the best way I could express what I would need from this hypothetical book I'm looking for would be a series like NOVA, only in book form. I need it to be palatable to me and not lose me in the dry math and science department. I need it to only explain as much of the actual technical math and science as I would need to understand the concepts being talked about. Does that make more sense? I wish I could be more specific, but I think the NOVA thing is the most on-target way I have of describing it. I need the book to know that its audience (at least its audience in me) is fairly laymen and it needs to be a little "hey, look how fun and surprising math/science is! isn't that neat?!" without insulting my intelligence or coming off like a lame high school biology book.
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