What are the best science books? All I know is that a brief history of time is supposed to be good...

What are the best science books? All I know is that a brief history of time is supposed to be good. I was also going to get free will by Sam Harris because it's a topic that's been fascinating for me to think about lately.

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What are the best pop science books?*

Yeah, sure dude, whatever you wanna call it. I am looking for books I can actually read, and you know what I mean by that, please go back under your bridge.

Autistic elitist.

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I really liked The Drunkards Walk, which has to do with randomness, probability, statistics, etc.

James Gleick's Chaos and The Information are both really good historical treatments of chaos and information theory respectively. I think he's written some other stuff too.

People shit all over Brian Greene, but as a non physicist I think his physics books are alright. I didn't care for his philosophizing or out there theories, but he describes in detail a ton of important experiments in modern physics and goes over the results.

This is the only 'pop' book that I think treats mathematics well.

So is this stuff like Godel and how mathematics breaks down to a certain point and becomes paradoxes? Because that's a concept that I have been wanting to understand for some time.

I am also guessing that Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity Is Near isn't necessary to read if you already believe that computers are capable of human intelligence and man can augment himself with technology?

>So is this stuff like Godel and how mathematics breaks down to a certain point and becomes paradoxes? Because that's a concept that I have been wanting to understand for some time.

No I don't think any of those books go in to that. It's long and meandering, but check out the book Godel, Escher, Bach.

I have never read Kurzweil.

Actually I think this book touches on Godel.