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Three book-related items up today:
First, a hearty congratulations to Brian Switek, whose book, now titled Written In Stone, is set to be published next fall! If the sample chapters I saw a few months back are any indication, Brian's book will be a superb addition to the science lover's bookshelf.
Second, Tom Levenson will be speaking at MIT next Tuesday, 6 October, about his recent and much appreciated book Newton and the Counterfeiter. The event will be held, so they tell me, at 19 o'clock in room 6-120.
Third, on top of everything else I'm trying to do (like get a career started), I've started writing one myself. For an appropriately loose definition, it'll be my second; either way, it means I'll be around these parts even less than I have been of late.
Comments
Thanks, Blake! The book has been greatly improved since the time you saw the drafts. I hope you will like it.
What is this second book you are working on?
Posted by: Brian Switek
| September 29, 2009 6:27 AM
Its working title is Math[s] in the Movies. My plan is to explore scenes in different films which illustrate points in algebra, trigonometry, game theory and whatnot. On my old blog, I had a post about movies in which mathematicians appear, and recently I got to thinking that I could expand it into something meatier. Then, I started adding in the films which had a bit I could use to make an interesting point — Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas to explain units of measurement, for example — and it ballooned outward beyond the size of a blog post or a series thereof.
Posted by: Blake Stacey
| September 29, 2009 11:22 AM
Thanks Blake...See you next week, I hope.
Posted by: tom Levenson | September 30, 2009 2:22 PM
I look forward VERY much to seeing your tome, whether entitled "Math[s] in the Movies" or something that an editor suggests and which works for you. So far as I'm concerned, everything you've touched at conferences and online is gold. You know lots of STUFF. You understand the HUMAN side. You communicate well. What could go wrong?
Posted by: Jonathan Vos Post | October 10, 2009 11:43 PM