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A Mathematician Plays the Market by John Allen Paulos
Category: Business Finance Management | Series: Allen Lane Science S.
In early 2000 John Allen Paulos, celebrated thinker and writer on mathematics, set out to use his insights into areas such as statistics, probability and psychology to examine the maths of the marketplace. However, he soon discovered that playing the market was far more addictive than he had anticipated ...Show more
Mind Wide Open : One man's journey into the workings of his brain by Steven A. Johnson
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Allen Lane Science S.
The story of one man's extraordinary voyage of discovery into the secrets of his mind ... What
Project Orion: The Atomic Spac by George Dyson
Category: Fiction | Series: Allen Lane Science S.
In 1957, the US government sponsored a project - codename "Orion" - to develop a 40,000-ton manned spaceship propelled by nuclear bombs. This book tells the story of the author's father, Freeman Dyson, a brillaint mathematician, and member of the "Orion" team.
The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
Category: Science | Series: Allen Lane Science Ser.
Explores the scope and power of the big issues that inform our understanding of how the physical world works. This title looks at the philosophy of science from a perspective and presents fresh conclusions about the nature of human choice, scientific explanation and the evolution of culture.
The Essential Difference by Simon Baron-Cohen
Category: Science & Natural History | Series: Allen Lane Science S.
Simon Baron-Cohen shows that, indisputably, on average male and female minds are of a slightly different character. Men tend to be better at analysing systems (better systemisers), while women tend to be better at reading the emotions of other people (better empathisers).
The Fellowship by John Gribbin
Category: unmapped | Series: Allen Lane Science S.
John Gribbin, bestselling author of In Search of Schrodinger's Cat, explores the defining decades of the seventeenth century's scientific revolution, when the Royal Society established what became the 'scientific method', a way of doing and communicating science that set the tone for the three and a hal ...Show more
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