It is said that in recent years, in addition to mystery novels and history books, the most popular science books have been read. After all, I have been studying science and engineering until I am a graduate student. Although my work after graduation has little to do with my knowledge of science and engineering, my love for natural science has not changed.
I think a good popular science book needs two conditions: interesting and easy to read. Interesting means that the content of the book should have new things and new knowledge, at least not all I already know or have learned, so that it will be innovative to read, and it is worthwhile to spend this time reading this book. Readability means that the writing of a book should not be too boring or too abstruse. After all, it is a popular science book, not a professional book. The audience is the general public, not professionals. Therefore, it is necessary to express profound knowledge in plain language as much as possible, otherwise readers will easily fall into an increasingly crazy dilemma.
Well, before it's too late, I recommend some popular science books that I think are good after reading them by subject category. As for the evaluation of books, it's just my opinion. Welcome to discuss. The first phase is that mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and so on will be updated one after another.
Mathematical Paradox and Three Mathematical Crises
Where is Han? write
Five-star recommendation
After reading this book, I feel that I have studied mathematics that I think I am best at for so many years. We can only use mathematics to do problems, but we have no idea about the subtle ideas and beautiful structure contained in mathematics itself. . . PS: I don't quite understand the last part about set theory and mathematical logic. . .
mathematics
(British) Timothy? Girls. write
Five-star recommendation
The feeling after reading this book is one sentence: great, great! Really explain the most basic concepts of mathematics from the height of philosophy, especially the concepts of limit and dimension. The so-called enlightenment is probably like this.
Mathematical Language: Turning Invisible into Visible
Chase? Devlin. write
Four-star recommendation
How can I put it? In fact, this book is good, comprehensive and clear, but for me, a reader who has studied mathematics for many years, most of the contents in this book are too basic, and I have basically learned them. The problem is that I still don't understand what I haven't learned after reading it. . . Also, I don't know if it's a translation problem. I always feel that the language of the whole book is still not interesting enough, and it tastes like a textbook. . . Of course, the content of the book is definitely worth reading. . .
Fermat's last theorem: a mystery that has puzzled the world's wise people for 358 years
Simon? Singh? write
Five-star recommendation
This book is also very famous. It is more a science history book than a math science book. Taking Fermat's Last Theorem as the main line, there are a series of ups and downs in the history of mathematics development, and there is almost no professional content, so it is quite easy to read. . .
The Mystery of Butterfly Effect: Approaching Fractal and Chaos
What about Zhang? write
Four-star recommendation
The theme is very good, but I feel that the author still doesn't write with heart, giving people the feeling that all kinds of interesting materials are pieced together, but the language is not organized in the logical order from shallow to deep, which leads to no system. . . Moreover, the application of fractal and chaos mentioned in the book in many fields is completely puzzling to non-professionals To tell you the truth, I don't quite understand most of the rest. . .
Silent universe: the story behind 24 mathematical formulas
Dana Mackenzie? write
Four-star recommendation
Actually, it is a biography of mathematicians, so the index number of the book belongs to the category of historical geography. . . I feel that the author has not reached the master level, and there is no particularly enlightening content that can make people understand the connotation and extension of these formulas from a deeper perspective, mainly staying at the surface of the "introduction". . . But on the whole, it is still a very interesting book, which has increased a lot of knowledge. . .
Math girl
(Japan) Jie Chenghao? write
Five-star recommendation
All kinds of exquisite and fancy proofs in it made me dumbfounded and couldn't stop. . .
Math Girl 2: Fermat's Last Theorem
(Japan) Jie Chenghao? write
Five-star recommendation
This book mainly talks about number theory, and there are some things I don't quite understand later. The overall feeling is not as exquisite as the first one, but it is still very refreshing! Moreover, after reading this book, I suddenly began to care about the emotional drama inside! Unfortunately, I asked the publishing house that many books in this series will not be published in Chinese. Fortunately, I know Japanese, and I'm going to buy a Japanese version to read it directly!
Those math things.
William Denham? write
Five-star recommendation
From A to Z, from fundamental theorem of arithmetic to the end of the basic theorem of algebra, we mainly look at gossip. . . In other words, Gauss knew the prime number theorem when he was 14 years old. Me? Sure enough, genius is genius. . . By the way, this author is very famous and has written several popular science books on mathematics. In addition to this book, there are two books, Tutorial of Genius and Tutorial of Calculus, which are also Chinese versions, with very high scores and are worth reading!
Ah, it's getting late. I am here to recommend popular science books on mathematics, including physics, chemistry, biology and so on. I will continue to update them!