Summer reading, from Zubin Al Genubi
I need some new books to inspire me. Suggestions? Last few science book were great.
Bill Egan replies:
Against the Tide: Rickover's Leadership Principles and the Rise of the Nuclear Navy by Dave Oliver.
Laurel Kenner adds:
Sue Stuart-Smith: The Well-Gardened Mind: The Restorative Power of Nature
William Logan: Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees
Thomas Sowell: Black Rednecks and White Liberals
Michael Brush suggests:
The Gene
The Emperor of all Maladies
Why We Sleep
Henry Gifford offers:
Buildings Don’t Lie, Better Buildings by Understanding Basic Building Science: The movement through buildings of heat, air, water, sound, fire, light, and pests. By…well…Henry Gifford!
Big Al recommends:
Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics
The Seven Pillars of Statistical Wisdom
The Biggest Bluff: How I Learned to Pay Attention, Master Myself, and Win
Re Riemann, 3Blue1Brown has a great bit to enhance the visual:
Visualizing the Riemann zeta function and analytic continuation
A reader writes:
Major Transitions in Evolution: Maynard Smith & Szathmary
Indra's Pearls: Mumford + Series + Wright
Coe/Stone: Reading The Maya Glyphs
Fred Schwed: The Pleasure Was All Mine
Japanese Tales: Royall Tyler
African Folktales : Paul Radin
Ernst Haeckel : Art Forms from the Abyss
Owen Jones: The Complete Chinese Ornament
Trigonometric Delights : Eli Maor
Voices from the Whirlwind - Fenc Jicai
The Cowshed - Ji Xianlin
Rural Worlds Lost - Jack Temple Kirby
Paolo Pezzutti enjoyed:
Relentless Strike: The Secret History of Joint Special Operations Command
Laurence Glazier adds:
Emily St John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility. Sequel to her earlier The Glass Hotel, which was partly about a Ponzi scheme.
And Brandon Q. Morris, physicist sci-fi writer.
Peter Krupp writes:
Here are two science books that I found fascinating focused on quantum physics written by one of the great contributors to the quantum theory of computation, David Deutsch.
The Fabric of Reality (quantum theory - many world interpretation, quantum computation, epistemology, and much more).
The Beginning of Infinity (the nature of scientific progress, how it has accelerated in the past few centuries).