“Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.”
- Mark Twain
Title | Author | Description |
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Origami and Math | John Montroll | I like origami and I like math, so this book is perfect! Easily my top favorite origami book of all time. |
What If? | Randall Munroe | The What If? blog but as a book, and the best way to blown the mind of fourth-grade me. |
The Elements | Theodore Gray | Lovely periodic table book with large beautiful pictures except the author sadly didn’t try to nearly kill himself by photographing the highly radioactive elements. |
Lies My Teacher Told Me | James Loewen | I can’t decide if this book is more interesting or Wikipedia’s weirdest history articles. |
The Code Book | Simon Singh | The book that got me into cryptography, except I lost my copy after carrying it around everywhere. |
Gödel, Escher, Bach | Douglas Hofstadter | An amazing math book that I received as a present recently even though I’d already read the book a few years ago. Oh well. |
The Wisdom of James Mickens | James Mickens | Insane articles and talks about computer science. Yes, they’re insane in both a good and a bad way, but mostly good. |