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Charles Seife
Charles Seife is a correspondent for Science, a London--based international weekly science magazine. He has written for Scientific American, The Economist, Wired UK, The Sciences, and numerous other publications. He has a masters degree in mathematics from Yale. show more

Charles Seife is a correspondent for Science, a London--based international weekly science magazine. He has written for Scientific American, The Economist, Wired UK, The Sciences, and numerous other publications. He has a masters degree in mathematics from Yale.
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Science
Charles Seife's Books
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea - Charles Seife Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception - Charles Seife Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking - Charles Seife Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes - Charles Seife Alpha and Omega: The Search for the Beginning and End of the Universe - Charles Seife Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking - Charles Seife, Bill Weideman Os Números (não) mentem (Portuguese Edition) - Charles Seife Virtual Unreality: Just Because the Internet Told You, How Do You Know It's True? - Charles Seife
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Virtual Unreality: Just Because the Internet Told You, How Do You Know It's True? - Charles Seife
Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes - Charles Seife
Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking - Charles Seife
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea - Charles Seife
Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking - Charles Seife, Bill Weideman
Zwilling Der Unendlichkeit. Eine Biographie Der Zahl Null - Charles Seife
Alpha and Omega: The Search for the Beginning and End of the Universe - Charles Seife
Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception - Charles Seife
Proofiness: How You're Being Fooled by the Numbers - Charles Seife
Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes - Charles Seife
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Steeped in Science, Submersed in Story
Steeped in Science, Submersed in Story rated it 11 years ago
text Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
First, I want to say that I loved this book. It examines the historical introduction zero into our number system (as we found we wanted to do things other than just count), and then it examines the role that zero and its un-identical twin infinity play in several areas of modern, applied math. The...
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Lisa (Harmony)
Lisa (Harmony) rated it 11 years ago
text Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Two stars represents on Goodreads "it was okay" and I think that's about right. Yet that feels too low, because I did get through this book, and that usually represents at least a three to me--that I liked it--unless I find an ultimate WTF moment. If I was tempted to mark it lower, I think it's that...
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thomcat
thomcat rated it 14 years ago
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Interesting anecdotes about how the brain reacts to numbers. I agree with the author - drawing public attention to statistical lies is the best way to defeat them. OJ the wife-beater didn't have a 1 in 1,000 probability of becoming a wife-murderer; instead Nicole's chances of dying went up from 1 in...
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