The typical image of an inventor is of a man working alone in his laboratory (which will be something of a mess) thinking up devices which no one has thought of before. In Patently FemaleEthlie Ann Vare and Greg Ptacek continue their challenge, started in Mothers of Invention, to this gender stereotype.
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Richard L Gregory was an editor for the journal Perceptions. His book Even Odder Perceptions is a collection of his editorials from the journal, expanded into essays. (The book follows his earlier work Odd Perceptions)
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In order to understand the place of science in our society, it is important to distinguish it from technology, but at the same time to realise that the two are closely related. In to light such a candle, Keith J. Laidler looks at the relationship between basic science and the technology we are familiar with today.
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid is Douglas Hofstadter's classic work on self-reference, and its application to the mind, music, art and of course Gödel's incompleteness theorem.
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Gödel's incompleteness theorems can either be expressed in terms of integers, or in terms of set theory. In Incompleteness in the Land of SetsMelvin Fitting shows that links between the two approaches provide new insights into the theorems.
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The pace of change in all aspects of our lives is constantly accelerating. If you would like to stay ahead of the game, then Next Now: Trends for the Future by Marian Salzman and Ira Matathia gives a wide ranging look at where the world is going in the next few years.
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Raymond Smullyan may be known to readers of this site as the author of several books of logical puzzles. But he has also written more serious books on the subject and Godel's incompleteness theorems is such a book.
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University level mathematics can be a daunting subject, and if you haven't studied maths to this level then you may think that those who have are speaking a different language. Well help is at hand in the form of a short book, The Foundations of Mathematics, by Ian Stewart and David Tall.
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In 1999 Richard Mabey developed a severe depression. He found it difficult to work, and had to leave the house he had lived in since his childhood. Nature Cure tells of how his friends helped him, giving him a room in a remote part of East Anglia, where he gradually regained his love of life and the natural world.
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In the 1920's and 1930's, Niels Bohr organised annual meetings at his Copenhagen Institute. These informal conferences gave physicists the chance to exchange ideas on the what was happening at the forefront of physics. It became the tradition for some of the younger attendees to put on a skit poking fun at more experienced physicists. In Faust in Copenhagen: A Struggle for the Soul of Physics, Gino Segrè links the 1932 skit with the progress of physics and the lives of physicists of this era.
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