Charles Seife: 9 books
Virtual Unreality
Just Because the Internet Told You, How Do You Know It's True?
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2014
The bestselling author of Proofiness and Zero explains how to separate fact from fantasy in the digital world
Digital information is a powerful tool that spreads unbelievably rapidly, infects all corners of society, and is all but impossible to control—even when that information is actually a...
Le menzogne del Web
Internet e il lato sbagliato dell’informazione
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 16, 2015
La tanto decantata «democrazia digitale» si situa appena un passo prima della dittatura degli stupidi e dei creduloni. Serve un antidoto, ed è questo che Charles Seife ha voluto scrivere. In tono canzonatorio, irriverente e illuminante, Seife svela i meccanismi delle molte «bufale» che circolano...
Decoding the Universe
How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everythingin the Cosmos, fromOu r Brains to Black Holes
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2007
The author of Zero explains the scientific revolution that is transforming the way we understand our world
Previously the domain of philosophers and linguists, information theory has now moved beyond the province of code breakers to become the crucial science of our time. In Decoding the Universe,...
Sun in a Bottle
The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2008
With his knack for translating science into understandable, anecdotal prose and his trademark dry humor, award-winning science writer Charles Seife presents the first narrative account of the history of fusion for general readers in more than a decade. Tracing the story from its beginning into the...
Zero
The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000
Popular math at its most entertaining and enlightening. "Zero is really something"-Washington Post
A New York Times Notable Book.
The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshiped it, and the Church used it to fend off heretics. Now it threatens the foundations...
Proofiness
How You're Being Fooled by the Numbers
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2010
The bestselling author of Zero shows how mathematical misinformation pervades-and shapes-our daily lives.
According to MSNBC, having a child makes you stupid. You actually lose IQ points. Good Morning America has announced that natural blondes will be extinct within two hundred years. Pundits...
Zero
La storia di un'idea pericolosa
Language: Italian
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Inventato dai babilonesi, venerato dagli indù, bandito dai greci, il numero zero per secoli è stato circondato da un’aura di ambiguità finché, finalmente imbrigliato, è diventato il più importante e potente strumento della matematica. Charles Seife ci offre una brillante descrizione del modo...
by Charles Seife
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 15, 2011
Con la sua capacità di rendere accessibile anche la scienza più all’avanguardia, Charles Seife ci spiega in che modo la teoria dell’informazione è diventata la scienza cruciale dei nostri tempi. Nata con la decifrazione del codice Enigma nella Seconda Guerra mondiale e cresciuta con la rivoluzione...
Alpha and Omega
The Search for the Beginning and End of the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2004
Humankind has grappled for millennia with the fundamental questions of the origin and end of the universe--it was a focus of ancient religions and myths and of the inquiries of Aristotle, Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler, and Newton. Today we are at the brink of discoveries that should soon reveal the...