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Brian Greene
Brian Greene (born 1963)

physicist, professor, actor, theoretical physicist, mathematician

  • University of Oxford, Harvard University

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AL and AL
Icarus at the edge of time
What Are You Optimistic About?
Until the End of Time
The fabric of the cosmos
The best American science and nature writing, 2006
New York Times Book of Science
The Hidden Reality
Stephen Hawking
Der Bielefelder Marienaltar: das Retabel in der Neust adter Marienkirche
The elegant universe
Fields, Strings and Duality
Der Stoff, aus dem der Kosmos ist
Optimal Happiness- Love Ain't Never Been Enough!
El Universo Elegante
L'universo elegante
De ontrafeling van de kosmos / druk 4
Wanton / the Dame / the Desired
Infinite Cosmos
Ying bin 900 ju dian
Cosmic Symphony
Science neoclassical Wencong
Lü you 900 ju dian
Why science matters
El universo elegante
Classroom talk
Martin Gardner
Martin Gardner (1914-2010)

journalist, literary critic, magician, philosopher, mathematician, science communicator

  • University of Chicago

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100 Great Science Fiction Short Short Stories
Comets & Computers
Mathenauts
Black holes & bug-eyed-monsters
Isaac Asimov's Masters of Science Fiction
Science Fiction Puzzle Tales
The Golden Years of Science Fiction -- Fifth Series
The Country Of The Blind And Other Science-fiction Stories
Isaac Asimov Presents The Great SF Stories 10 (1948)
Dark Stars & Dragons
Puzzles from other worlds
Extraterrestrials & Eclipses
Riddles of the sphinx, and other mathematical puzzle tales
The new age
Science Puzzlers
Mathematical magic show
The healing revelations of Mary Baker Eddy
Science Magic
Undiluted Hocus-Pocus
Weird water & fuzzy logic
Science
Did Adam and Eve Have Navels?
On the wild side
In the Name of Science
Gardner's whys & wherefores
From the Wandering Jew to William F. Buckley
When you were a tadpole and I was a fish
Great Essays in Science
Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries?
Order and surprise
T'ongsŏp kwa chichŏk sagi
Relativity for the million
Aha! gotcha
Knotted doughnuts and other mathematical entertainments
More Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd
The 2nd Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles & Diversions
Wheels, life, and other mathematical amusements
The Wizard of Oz and Who He Was
Classic brainteasers
The night is large
The Ambidextrous Universe
The Unexpected Hanging and Other Mathematical Diversions
Visitors from Oz
Mental magic
The Mathematical Gardner
Mathematical Puzzles
Mathematical Circus
Penrose Tiles to Trapdoor Ciphers
Space Puzzles
The Tokyo puzzles
Smart Science Tricks
The Jinn from Hyperspace
How not to test a psychic
aha! Insight
Urantia
The whys of a philosophical scrivener
aha!
Isaac Asimov's Marvels of Science Fiction
Martin Gardner's Sixth book of mathematical diversions from Scientific American
The Annotated Casey at the Bat
New Mathematical Diversions from Scientific American
Best remembered poems
The Magic Numbers of Dr. Matrix
The Last Recreations
Time travel and other mathematical bewilderments
The arrow book of brain teasers
Gardner's Workout
The flight of Peter Fromm
The Annotated Night Before Christmas
The Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles & Diversions
Logic Machines and Diagrams
Mathematics, magic and mystery
Brain Teasers (pocket puzzlers)
The colossal book of short puzzles and problems
My best mathematical and logic puzzles
The Universe in a Handkerchief
Match-ic
A Bouquet for the Gardener
Mathematical Puzzles of Sam Loyd
Optical Illusion Play Pack
The snark puzzle book
The wreck of the Titanic foretold?
The Colossal Book of Mathematics
Perplexing Puzzles and Tantalizing Teasers
Archimedes
Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing
Desafíos Mentales
Mind-Boggling Word Puzzles
Martin Gardner's table magic
Encyclopedia of Impromptu Magic
Colossal Book Of Wordplay
Perplexing Puzzles and Tantalizing Teasers
Mathematical Carnival
Perplexing Puzzles and Tantalizing Teasers..
More Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions
Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions
Never make fun of a turtle, my son
More Perplexing Puzzles and Tantalizing Teasers
Are Universes Thicker Than Blackberries?
REMUE-MENINGES CAPTIVANTS
Damas, Parabolas y Mas Mistificaciones Matematicas / Checkers, Parables and Other Mathematical Mystifications
Over the coffee cups
Martin Gardner Presents
A Gathering of Gardner
Cut the cards
The no-sided professor, and other tales of fantasy, humor, mystery, and philosophy
MARTIN GARDNER'S NEW MATHEMATICAL DIVERSIONS FROM SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN
Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games
Eğlenceli Matematik Bilmeceleri
Mathematical Circus
The Scientific American book of mathematical puzzles & diversions
Geometrie mit Taxis (German Edition)
Huevos, nudos y otros mitos
Mathematical puzzles & diversions
Enigmas de otros mundos
¡Aja! Paradojas que te hacen pensar
Bilimin Büyüsü
The Book of Visual Illusions
The Second Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions
The Wizard of Oz and Who He Was
Logic Machines, Diagrams and Boolean Algebra
Mathematical Magic Show
Mathematical Games Knowledge Cards
Cartomagia
Les Magiciens démasqués
Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science
The ambidextrous universe
Fractal Music, Hypercards and More Mathematical Recreations from "Scientific American"
Puro Abracadabra
Matemagia
Fads & Fallacies in the Name of Science (Masterpieces of Science)
¡Aja! Paradojas que te hacen pensar
Flight of Peter Fromm
The 2nd Scientific American Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions
Magia de Cerca
Magia Inteligente
Science Puzzlers
Relativity for the million
Martin Gardner's favorite poetic parodies
Peter Puzzlemaker Returns!
Los mágicos números del Doctor Matrix
Relativity for the Million
Mathematics, Magic and Mystery
Matematicheskie golovolomki i razvlechenii͡a
Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing
In the name of science
The Annotated Snark
Matematikçinin Galaksi Rehberi
Space Puzzles
12 tricks with a borrowed deck
Archimedes, mathematician and inventor
Damas, parábolas y más mistificaciones
Perplexing puzzles and tantalizing teasers
Logic machines and diagrams
Famous poems from bygone days
Never make fun of a turtle, my son
Classic Mind-Bending Puzzles 2007 Calendar
Cut the cards
Classic Mind-bending Puzzles 2008 Calendar
Mathematical puzzles
Alte amuzamente matematice
Mathematical Marvels
Over the coffee cups
Matematicheskie chudesa i taĭny
Ingenio Para Genios
Leonard Mlodinow
Leonard Mlodinow (born 1954)

physicist, mathematician

  • University of California, Berkeley

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Titanic Cat
A Briefer History of Time
The Drunkard's Walk
Feynman's Rainbow
Elastic
The Upright Thinkers
War of the Worldviews
The Grand Design
The last dinosaur
Stephen Hawking
Euclid's Window
Subliminal
Emotional
Stephen Hawking
O andar do bêbado
Marvin Minsky
Marvin Minsky (1927-2016)

mathematician, computer scientist, artificial intelligence researcher

  • Harvard University, Princeton University

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Turing Option
Perceptrons
The society of mind
Semantic information processing
The emotion machine
Computation: finite and infinite machines
Robotics
Inventive Minds: Marvin Minsky on Education (The MIT Press)
Thinking Machines
Mentopolis
Het Denken
Computers & Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence
Ian Stewart
Ian Stewart (born 1945)

mathematician, science communicator

  • University of Cambridge, University of Warwick

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The Globe
The Science of Discworld
Judgement Day
Heaven
Wheelers
Does God play dice?
Darwin's Watch
Calculating the cosmos
In Pursuit of the Unknown
Figments of reality
The art of C programming
The Collapse of Chaos
The art of Lisp programming
Fearful Symmetry
What Does a Martian Look Like
Professor Stewart's casebook of mathematical mysteries
The beauty of numbers in nature
The magical maze
Life's other secret
Nature's numbers
Concepts of modern mathematics
Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities
The problems of mathematics
Another fine math you've got me into...
Story of Mathematics
The foundations of mathematics
Letters to a young mathematician
What shape is a snowflake?
Gateway to computing with the BBC Micro
Flatterland
Stephen Hawking
Algebraic number theory
Complex analysis
Control your TRS-80
Why Beauty Is Truth
The Great Mathematical Problems
Machine code and better BASIC
Galois theory
Game, Set and Math
Math Hysteria
Mathematics of life
Professor Stewart's hoard of mathematical treasures
Symmetry
Get knotted!
How to Cut a Cake
Easy programming for the ORIC-1
Lie algebras generated by finite-dimensional ideals
The Colours of Infinity
Catastrophe theory and its applications
Seven years of Manifold, 1968-1980
Professor Stewart's incredible numbers
Timex Sinclair 1000
Singularity theory and its applications
Peek poke byte & ram!
The Mayor of Uglyville's Dilemma
Singularities and groups in bifurcation theory
The Symmetry Perspective
Easy programming for the Commodore 64
Infinity
Significant figures
Uncertainty
Cows In The Maze
Easy programming
Taylor expansions and catastrophes
Further programming for the ZX Spectrum
Spectrum machine code
Easy programming for the ZX Spectrum
Oracle
L'Univers des nombres
Gateway to computing with the ZX Spectrum
Further programming for the Dragon 32
Pentagonien, Andromeda und die gekämmte Kugel
Computer puzzles for Spectrum & ZX81
Commodore 64 machine code
Lie algebras
Oh! catastrophe
Mania de matemática 2
Petites Enigmes Mathematiques et Logiques
Easy Programming for the Dragon 32
From Electrons to Elephants and Elections
What's the Use?
Les fractals
Computers in a nutshell
Visions géométriques
Dynamics and Bifurcation in Networks
Solutions Manual for Galois Theory
New Directions in Mathematics
Mathematik
Ah! les beaux groupes
Jack Of All Trades
Singularity Theory and Its Applications : Warwick 1989, Part II
Nut-crackers
The Living Labyrinth
Freeman Dyson
Freeman Dyson (1923-2020)

mathematician, theoretical physicist, nuclear physicist, professor, statistician, physicist

  • University of Cambridge, Winchester College

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Imagined worlds
What Are You Optimistic About?
From Eros to Gaia
Disturbing the universe
The sun, the genome & the Internet
Infinite in all directions
The Scientist as Rebel
A Many-Colored Glass
Origins of Life (CANTO)
The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2010
Disturbing the Universe
Maker of patterns
Heretical thoughts about science and society
Dreams of earth and sky
Yu zhou po lan =
Weapons and hope
The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011
Values at war
Origins of life
The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011
Advanced Quantum Mechanics
Imagined Worlds (The Jerusalem-Harvard Lectures)
From Eros to Gaia
Dear Professor Dyson
Imagined worlds
Los origenes de la vida
Birds and Frogs; selected papers, 1990-2014
Die Sonne, das Genom und das Internet. Wissenschaftliche Innovation und die Technologien der Zukunft
Advanced quantum mechanics
Symmetry groups in nuclear and particle physics
Imagined Worlds
Le soleil, le génome et Internet
Field theory
Die Sonne, das Genom und das Internet
Selected papers of Freeman Dyson with commentary
Disturbing the Universe
Les dérangeurs de l'univers
Dyson Quantenfeldtheorie
El Infinito En Todas Direcciones
Technology and social justice (Louis Nizer lecture on public policy)
De Eros A Gaia
Neutron stars and pulsars
The world, the flesh and the devil..
Zeit ohne Ende: Physik und Biologie eines offenen Universums
Daison hakushi no taiyō genomu intānetto
SOL, (0) O GENOMA E A INTERNET - Ferramentas de Revoluções Científicas -(EURO 9.73)
Advanced quantum mechanics
Hervé Le Tellier
Hervé Le Tellier (born 1957)

journalist, poet, literary critic, mathematician

  • Centre de formation des journalistes, Paris Diderot University

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Esthétique de l'Oulipo
Enough about love
All Happy Families
Joconde sur votre indulgence
Esthetique de l'Oulipo
Anomaly
Encyclopædia inutilis
Eléctrico W
La disparition de Perek
La France, l'industrie, la crise
La anomalía
Esthétique de l'Oulipo
Anomaly
Bar Sonatlari
L'anomalia
A thousand pearls (for a thousand pennies)
L'Athlète dans les étoiles
L'anomalie
Toutes les familles heureuses
Atlas inutilis
The Anomaly
Le voleur de nostalgie
The sextine chapel
Leurs contes de Perrault
Les amnésiques n'ont rien vécu d'inoubliable, ou, Mille réponses à la question "A quoi tu penses ?"
Thousand Pearls (for a Thousand Pennies)
Asktan Bu Kadar
Sextine Chapel
Des Papous dans la tête - Les Décraqués
Joconde jusqu'à 100
Un sourire indéfinissable
Moi et François Mitterrand
L'herbier des villes
Les amnésiques n'ont rien vécu d'inoubliable, ou, mille réponses à la question "à quoi tu penses?"
Assez parlé d'amour
Quelques mousquetaires et autres nouvelles
Eléctrico W
Sonates de bar
Anomalin
Le vent de la langue
Christos Papadimitriou
Christos Papadimitriou (born 1949)

mathematician, computer scientist, musician

  • Princeton University, National Technical University of Athens

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Turing
Złożoność obliczeniowa
Combinatorial optimization
Turing
Logicomix - An Epic Search for Truth
Computational complexity
Theory of DB Concurr Con 27-1
Algorithms
The theory of database concurrency control
Turing (a Novel about Computation)