| - The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson is a great book that taught me a lot. It covers the gradual discovery of computers from Babbage and comes to modern ages. I highly recommend it. This book is also very fun to read. - Seven Brief Lessons in Physics by Carlo Rovelli is a brief, enjoyable, and great read. This book is good for both layperson and experts. - Albert Einstein is Einstein's biography by Walter Isaacson. Really nice book. - The Life and Science of Richard Feynman by James Gleick (author of Chaos and The Information) is another great biography. This biography shows the evolution of his science as well as evolution of his person and thoughts. Great book. Background in Physics will be very helpful if you want to read this one. - The Mathematical Experience David, Hersh is a very succinct and pleasant book on the history of Maths. Will recommend. - Alan Turing: The Enigma by Andrew Hodges is a good mathematician's biography. I have not finished it, but fully intend to. - I have just read some of The Man from the Future by Ananyo Bhattyacharya is a biography of John von Neumann. It already seems very good and I plan to read through the end. - The Annotated Turing deals a lot with history and is a read of a lifetime. ____ - I have not read A Mind at Work yet. It is a biography of Claude Shanon. I would recommend you to check it out. - Sylvia Nasar's A Beautiful Mind is also recommended highly. I plan to read it. ____ I have recently watched a BBC Documentary that I thoroughly liked. One of its themes that had striken me was the change of science from fully deterministic to probabilistic. It's an extremely important paradigm shift for all of science. The name is Dangerous Knowledge (2007). The people covered are- Cantor, Boltzmann, Godel, and Turing. |