Quanta Magazine Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday's Tomorrow
Nicole Yunger HalpernQuanta MagazineIn an adapted excerpt from her new book, “Quantum Steampunk: The Physics of Yesterday’s Tomorrow”, the theoretical physicist Nicole Yunger Halpern explains how equalities that strengthen the second law of thermodynamics can apply to quantum physics. https://t.co/5pOTPSLIFc
Hardcover, 2022
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Briefer History of Time: The Science Classic Made More Accessible
Stephen HawkingQuanta MagazineWhen Netta Englehardt read “A Brief History of Time” by Stephen Hawking as a kid, it set her sights on the quantum nature of gravity. Now Englehardt is contributing to the surge of progress on the famous black hole information paradox that Hawking posed. https://www.quantamagazine.org/netta-engelhardt-has-escaped-hawkings-black-hole-paradox-20210823/ https://t.co/5ZUmBR04hD
Paperback, 2008
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Computers & Typesetting, Volume B: Tex: The Program
Donald KnuthQuanta MagazineDonald Knuth is a computer scientist who understands that words matter. His works include a philosophy of literate programming, the typography program TeX and “The Art of Computer Programming,” which he began writing in 1962 and still hopes to complete. https://t.co/RreN9xWsMb
Hardcover, 1986
$69.99$44.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death
Nick LaneQuanta MagazineIn his latest book, “Transformer: The Deep Chemistry of Life and Death,” the biochemist Nick Lane explores how metabolism is central to life and genetic information could have grown up naturally around it rather than the other way around. https://t.co/TcTaRJVN77
Paperback, 2023
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Complexity: A Guided Tour
Melanie MitchellQuanta MagazineIn a new column, the AI researcher Melanie Mitchell (@MelMitchell1) unpacks the complexity inherent to aligning AI with human values like kindness and truthfulness. https://t.co/l49KSiAHf8
Paperback, 2011
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On the Origin of Species: Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life
Charles DarwinQuanta MagazineIn “On the Origin of Species,” Charles Darwin mused over the puzzle of various electrical fish and how they independently evolved their electrical abilities. “It is impossible to conceive by what steps these wondrous organs have been produced.” https://t.co/tpiOl3SH2g
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Loneliness: Human Nature and the Need for Social Connection
John T. CacioppoQuanta MagazineNicknamed “Dr. Loneliness,” the late neuroscientist John Cacioppo theorized that loneliness might be an evolved adaptation. Just as the feeling of hunger motivates us to eat, loneliness might exist to drive us to seek out social contact. https://t.co/hIAWm5OAF0 https://t.co/aUu5RCehtK
Paperback, 2009
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The Art of Computer Programming: Fundamental Algorithms, Volume 1
Donald KnuthQuanta MagazineDonald Knuth is a computer scientist who understands that words matter. His works include a philosophy of literate programming, the typography program TeX and “The Art of Computer Programming,” which he began writing in 1962 and still hopes to complete. https://t.co/RreN9xWsMb
Hardcover, 1997
$79.99$54.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist
Christof KochQuanta MagazineA 25-year-old bet about consciousness was just settled, reports @Horganism for @SciAm. Contrary to the expectation of one of the bettors, neuroscientist Christof Koch, we still have not found a scientific explanation for consciousness. https://t.co/llwqg2VUm6
Paperback, 2017
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion
Sean CarrollQuanta MagazineOur intuitions train us to think of space and time as separate things. In an excerpt from his new book, “The Biggest Ideas in the Universe,” @seanmcarroll provides a guide for understanding relativity’s union of space and time. https://t.co/2DnVsQuES4
Hardcover, 2022
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