- Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
- The Nothing That Is: A Natural History of Zero
- Galileo's Pendulum: From the Rhythm of Time to the Making of Matter
- "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" Adventures of a Curious Character
- The Calculus Wars: Newton, Leibniz, and the Greatest Mathematical Clash of All Time
- e: The Story of a Number
That's about the biggest collection of nerd books possible I think. I've already read the Galileo book. The first 2/3 about the history of time keeping was excellent. The last 1/3 about physics and harmonic oscillators was a bit iffy.
5 comments:
are... you... serious?!?! You DO realize you are done with school, right? ;)
Yeah, they never assign books like that in school!
Obviously, Alex, you have not met the rest of Clark's family. Or ever eaten at the Blockburger dinner table.
But Clark is undeniably the biggest of the Blockburger nerds.
Nope, I've not had the pleasure... :(
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