A good selection from The Economist.
- The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective by Robert C. Allen
- Why We Disagree About Climate Change: Understanding Controversy, Inaction and Opportunity by Mike Hulme
- Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the Search for the Origin of Species by Sean B. Carroll
- The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom by Graham Farmelo
- Catching Fire: How Cooking Made Us Human by Richard Wrangham.
- Direct Red: A Surgeon's Story by Gabriel Weston
By the way, is anybody else noticing that the Dirac bio is shaping up to be the book of the year?
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#8 - Paul Dirac
I'm halfway through Graham Farmelo's Dirac biography at the moment, and enjoying it quite a bit. Farmelo cites Dirac as one of the first physicists to evaluate theories on their mathematical beauty, rather than waiting for experiments.
There has been a fair amount of discussion of Graham Farmelo's The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom-- Peter Woit reviewed it on his blog, the
So, who are the people in yesterday's poll about theoretical physicists, and why should you know them?
Thanks for this list!