Bibliotheca: American Scientists List of 100 or so books that shaped a century of science

Friday, 23 January 2015

American Scientists List of 100 or so books that shaped a century of science

Sometime in the past, the good people at American Scientist decided to publish a list of scientific books that shaped 20th century science. My aim is to read all of them. Yes, I hear you! Its a tall task, but probably by the end of my life I would read a good amount of them. So to put into perspective I decided to list the books that I have already read, either partly or in full from that list. To see the original list, click here. Here goes my sub list from that list.

Biography

G. H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology (1940)

Richard Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! (1985)

Field Guides

H. Bradley, W. A. Craigie, J. A. H. Murray and C. T. Onions (eds.), Oxford English Dictionary (1933)

Physical Sciences

Explorations

George Gamow, One, Two, Three? Infinity (1947)

Stephen Hawking, A Brief History of Time (1988)

Herman Weyl, Symmetry (1952)

Monographs

Albert Einstein, The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein: The Swiss Years: Writings, 1902–09 (1930)

Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead, Principia Mathematica (1910–13, 3 vols.)

Albert Einstein, The Meaning of Relativity (1922)

Richard Feynman, QED (1985)

Donald Knuth, The Art of Computer Programming (1968)

History of Science