The course of genius guidance
Mathematicians told the stories of more than a dozen famous mathematicians and their discoveries. Very classic, with interesting stories and a lot of math knowledge. For example, how did Archimedes find the area of a circle and how did Euclid prove the Pythagorean theorem? Very classic.
You can find it online.
Fermat's last theorem
The most legendary theorem in mathematics, all kinds of stories related to it. Mainly telling stories, covering almost the whole history of mathematics. In particular, some latest and most modern mathematical knowledge is introduced in popular language. Fascinating.
History of quantum physics
A popular science book about quantum mechanics written by China tells the exciting events in the development of quantum mechanics. The author is a mysterious figure who doesn't want to reveal his identity. At first, it was only published on the forum as a serial, but it caused a sensation. It has been published now. It can be seen everywhere on the Internet. The content is very rich, which is particularly worth mentioning. The thoughts on the universe triggered by quantum mechanics in the last few chapters will definitely give you a new understanding of the world.
From one to infinity
Needless to say, the position of Supreme Edition in popular science books.
From Surprise to Thinking —— Wonder of Mathematical Paradox
A very interesting book on the paradox of mathematics, written by the famous martin gardner, is illustrated. Think twice science website has an electronic version.
Master of Mathematics —— From Zhi Nuo to Poincare
Biographies about famous mathematicians in history are the most classic of their kind. The Commercial Press was called Mathematical Elite when it was published in 1980s, but now it is renamed Master of Mathematics, and the publishing house is changed to Shanghai Science and Technology Education Publishing House. A website in Taiwan Province Province has an electronic version of some chapters (about 2/3, entered manually, with boundless merits). The name of the website is Arin's Math House.
The first promotion series has many books, but it may not be easy to understand.
A brief history of everything, serialized on Sina, is quite interesting.
Popular mathematics series, a set of more than a dozen books, including mathematics games and appreciation, mathematics anecdotes, mathematics and association, and the five guiding theories of mathematics in the 20 th century.
Adventures in the physical world are also classic.
The world haunted by demons, by carl sagan, is a classic.
That's all for the time being. Most of them can be found online.
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Humor Science: Harvard University's Alternative Style
Strange, incredible, but all this is true-humorous science is such an instinct to bring you happiness, it will take you to see the most whimsical scientific research in the world with a playful eye.
This paper introduces the winning contents of the Ig Nobel Prize held by Harvard University. In the process of reading this book, you can find that "paw sensing" is the name of a computer software program. As long as this program is installed in your computer and the cat at home climbs on your keyboard, the computer can inform you immediately. You can also meet the people behind the scenes who made a breakthrough in the study of Murphy's Law. He found conclusive evidence that "toast often falls to the buttered side". Besides, you can also learn a lot of mysteries you want to know, such as "Glasgow laundry collapse" and "the best way to soak cookies"
Science courses, from Peking University, are quite good.
Author Wu Guosheng, hehe, the legend of that year.
This book is a historical masterpiece that examines the development of science from a broad humanistic perspective. It vividly and passionately tells the life of scientists and the process of scientific discovery, accurately comments on the significance and value of every major scientific and technological progress in the development chain of human civilization, and shows the deepening of human's own cosmology and worldview in the process of understanding nature. At the same time, with the help of a large number of beautiful and wonderful pictures, it depicts the scientific development process of human civilization for 5 thousand years with great momentum and popularity.
Are animals conscious? 》
Translated and published by Beijing Institute of Technology, the content is very interesting. I don't know how the translation went.
The History of Circle: Mathematical Reasoning and Physical Universe
It vividly describes the history, culture, technical application and scientific research of this circle, and its readability is close to that of novels. It is also from Beijing Institute of Technology, and the above set of "Fire Thief Series".
So is the story of Mars.
The laws of nature-the unity contained in them, or.
Starting with an ancient Greek scholar, the author of this book introduces the formation and development of an important concept in physics so far. The book is lively and knowledgeable, but only involves very limited mathematical content, which provides fascinating insights for readers with certain basic knowledge of mathematics and physics. . .
Mendel Demon —— The Justice of Genes and the Complexity of Life
This is a long-awaited book ... The success of this book lies not only in the fact that the story itself is very interesting, but also in the fact that ridley knows how to tell the story thoroughly and that his story is really wonderful. ...
For the record, I haven't read any of the above books, and I don't know how well the translation is.
Entropy —— A New Methodology
It seems good to introduce the concept of entropy in physics into sociological research.