Significant Figures: The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians

10 best books like Significant Figures: The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians (Ian Stewart): Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, Queen of the Conqueror: The Life of Matilda, Wife of William I, Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution, Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe, Ali: A Life, No. More. Plastic.: What you can do to make a difference – the #2minutesolution, Oh Crap! I Have a Toddler: Tackling These Crazy Awesome Years—No Time-outs Needed, Albert Einstein: A Biography, The Last Man Who Knew Everything: The Life and Times of Enrico Fermi, Father of the Nuclear Age

Leonardo da Vinci

Author	Walter Isaacson
ISBN	1501139150

Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo's astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo's genius was based on skills we can improve in ourselves, such as passionate curiosity, careful...

Isaac Newton

Author	James Gleick
ISBN	1400032954

Isaac Newton was born in a stone farmhouse in 1642, fatherless and unwanted by his mother. When he died in London in 1727 he was so renowned he was given a state funeral—an unheard-of honor for a subject whose achievements were in the realm of the intellect. During the years he was an irascible presence...

Queen of the Conqueror: The Life of Matilda, Wife of William I

Author

Tracy Borman

Around the year 1049, William, Duke of Normandy and future conqueror of England, raced to the palace of Baldwin V, Count of Flanders. The count’s eldest daughter, Matilda, had refused William’s offer of marriage and publicly denounced him as a bastard. Encountering the young woman, William...

Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution

Author	Neil deGrasse Tyson
ISBN	0393350398

Our true origins are not just human, or even terrestrial, but in fact cosmic. Drawing on recent scientific breakthroughs and the current cross-pollination among geology, biology, astrophysics, and cosmology, Origins explains the soul-stirring leaps in our understanding of the cosmos. From the...

Infinite Powers: How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

Author	Steven H. Strogatz
ISBN	1328879984

Without calculus, we wouldn’t have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn’t have unraveled DNA or discovered Neptune or figured out how to put 5,000 songs in your pocket.

Though many of us were scared away from this essential, engrossing subject in high school and college, Steven...

Ali: A Life

Author	Jonathan Eig
ISBN	0544435249

The definitive biography of an American icon, from a New York Times best-selling author with unique access to Ali’s inner circle

He was the wittiest, the prettiest, the strongest, the bravest, and, of course, the greatest (as he told us himself). Muhammad Ali was one of the twentieth...

No. More. Plastic.: What you can do to make a difference – the #2minutesolution

Author

Martin Dorey

Discover what you can do to save the planet from plastic.

Start now. All it takes is 2 minutes of your time.

'I read this book yesterday and I've done three things today and that is testament to Martin's brilliant vision and ideas. Now it's your turn!' Chris Packham

'Once, plastic...

Oh Crap! I Have a Toddler: Tackling These Crazy Awesome Years—No Time-outs Needed

Author	Jamie Glowacki
ISBN	1982109734

Real-world, from-the-trenches toddler parenting advice from the author of the bestselling Oh Crap! Potty Training.

Toddlers—commonly defined as children aged between two and five years old—can be a horribly misunderstood bunch. What most parents view as bad behavior is in fact just...

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...

Beethoven: Anguish and Triumph

Author

Jan Swafford

Jan Swafford’s biographies of Charles Ives and Johannes Brahms have established him as a revered music historian, capable of bringing his subjects vibrantly to life. His magnificent new biography of Ludwig van Beethoven peels away layers of legend to get to the living, breathing human being 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...

The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art

Author	Ingrid Rowland
ISBN	0393241319

Giorgio Vasari (1511–1574) was a man of many talents—a sculptor, painter, architect, writer, and scholar—but he is best known for Lives of the Artists, the classic account that singlehandedly invented the genre of artistic biography and established the canon of Italian Renaissance art....

Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics

Author	Jim Al-Khalili
ISBN	0307986799

A fun and fascinating look at great scientific paradoxes.

   Throughout history, scientists have come up with theories and ideas that just don't seem to make sense.  These we call paradoxes.  The paradoxes Al-Khalili offers are drawn chiefly from physics and astronomy and represent...

A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age

Author	Jimmy Soni
ISBN	1476766681

The life and times of one of the foremost intellects of the twentieth century: Claude Shannon—the neglected architect of the Information Age, whose insights stand behind every computer built, email sent, video streamed, and webpage loaded.

Claude Shannon was a groundbreaking polymath,...

No Matter

Author	Jana Prikryl
ISBN	1984825119

An urgent, visionary collection of poems from the author of The After Party

Jana Prikryl's No Matter argues for the necessity of vision in a time of darkness. Set in cities toppling past the point of decline-and-fall--Rome, London, Dublin, and most of all New York--these poems capture...

Nag-iisa Lang Ako

Author

Tado Jimenez

Ang Nag-iisa Lang Ako: Ang Ikatlo Sa Huling Libro ay isang librong isinulat ng komedyante/bokalista ng bandang Live Tilapia (na hindi ko alam kung ano ang klase ng tugtugan nila)/radio personality na si Tado Jimenez. Sa pinaka-payak na paraan, ang librong ito ay katulad ng mismong awtor -- sabog!!!

Sa...