Philosophy of Mathematics: Selected Readings
10 best books like Philosophy of Mathematics: Selected Readings (Paul Benacerraf): Washington: A Life, A History of Western Philosophy, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty, The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama, Significant Figures: The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians, Dr. Space: The Life of Wernher Von Braun, Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill, Albert Einstein: A Biography, The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age
| Author | Ron Chernow |
| ISBN | 1594202664 |
The celebrated Ron Chernow provides a richly nuanced portrait of the father of America. With a breadth and depth matched by no other one-volume life, he carries the reader through Washington's troubled boyhood, his precocious feats in the French and Indian Wars, his creation of Mount Vernon, his heroic...
A History of Western Philosophy
| Author | Bertrand Russell |
| ISBN | 0671201581 |
Since its first publication in 1945 Lord Russell's A History of Western Philosophy has been universally acclaimed as the outstanding one-volume work on the subject—unparalleled in its comprehensiveness, its clarity, its erudition, its grace and wit. In seventy-six chapters he traces philosophy...
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
| Author | Ludwig Wittgenstein |
| ISBN | 0415254086 |
Perhaps the most important work of philosophy written in the twentieth century, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus was the only philosophical work that Ludwig Wittgenstein published during his life. Written in short, carefully numbered paragraphs of extreme brilliance, it captured the imagination...
Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty
| Author | Morris Kline |
| ISBN | 0195030850 |
For what it's worth, the correct title is Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty, not just "Mathematics" -- and omitted line matters as it is this, truly that the book is about. Kline exposes the gradual discovery by mathematicians that their great endeavor did not lead to perfect truth, as was once supposed,...
The Bridge: The Life and Rise of Barack Obama
| Author | David Remnick |
| ISBN | 1400043603 |
No story has been more central to America’s history this century than the rise of Barack Obama, and until now, no journalist or historian has written a book that fully investigates the circumstances and experiences of Obama’s life or explores the ambition behind his rise. Those familiar with Obama’s...
| Author | Ian Stewart |
| ISBN | 0465096123 |
A celebrated mathematician traces the history of math through the lives and work of twenty-five pioneering mathematicians
In Significant Figures, acclaimed mathematician Ian Stewart explores the work of 25 of history's most important mathematicians, showing how they developed on each...
| Author | Bob Ward |
| ISBN | 1591149266 |
Incredibly precocious and driven towards his goals, Wernher von Braun was a headstrong and unruly child with a predilection for thrill seeking and testing the rules. Whilst he always displayed a strong intellectualism, he only really began to apply himself to his studies, especially Maths that he...
Hero of the Empire: The Boer War, a Daring Escape, and the Making of Winston Churchill
| Author | Candice Millard |
| ISBN | 0804194890 |
From New York Times bestselling author of Destiny of the Republic and The River of Doubt, a thrilling narrative of Winston Churchill's extraordinary and little-known exploits during the Boer War
At age twenty-four, Winston Churchill was utterly convinced it was his destiny to become prime...
Albert Einstein: A Biography
| Author | Albrecht Fölsing |
| ISBN | 0140237194 |
"(Folsing) provides a nuanced, nonjudgmental personal portrait resting firmly on prodigious archival work. Albert Einstein allows us to see deeply into (his) inner world". -- Alan Lightman, The New York Review of BooksThe name of Albert Einstein has become synonymous with supreme wisdom and benignity....
The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age
| Author | David N. Schwartz |
| ISBN | 0465072925 |
In 1942, a team at the University of Chicago achieved what no one had before: a nuclear chain reaction. At the forefront of this breakthrough stood Enrico Fermi. Straddling the ages of classical physics and quantum mechanics, equally at ease with theory and experiment, Fermi truly was the last man who...
The History of the Calculus and Its Conceptual Development
| Author | Carl B. Boyer |
| ISBN | 0486605094 |
Based on unverified claims taken as the norm. Highly misinforming with false, unresearched and biased attributions. It does not represent a true history of calculus and its development, but only a biased view which propagates the idea of western universalism in the field of mathematics and all aspects...
