Siobhan Roberts: 2 books
Wind Wizard
Alan G. Davenport and the Art of Wind Engineering
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2012
With Wind Wizard, Siobhan Roberts brings us the story of Alan Davenport (1932-2009), the father of modern wind engineering, who investigated how wind navigates the obstacle course of the earth's natural and built environments--and how, when not properly heeded, wind causes buildings and bridges to...
Genius At Play
The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2015
Winner of the 2017 JPBM Communications Award for Expository and Popular Books.
“A delightful meta-biography--playful indeed--of a brilliant iconoclast.” --James Gleick, author of The Information
John Horton Conway is a singular mathematician with a lovely loopy brain. He is Archimedes,...