Comments on: Science Reading: Modern Science Writing http://www.dougalstanton.net/blog/index.php/2009/06/26/science-reading-modern-science-writing/ Wed, 30 Nov 2011 18:21:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Helen http://www.dougalstanton.net/blog/index.php/2009/06/26/science-reading-modern-science-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-16276 Helen Fri, 26 Jun 2009 19:52:12 +0000 http://www.dougalstanton.net/blog/?p=832#comment-16276 <p>I <em>may</em> be wrong but I think What do You Care... was one of the books they read in the year and a half that I was on the mailing list but miserably failing to go to any sessions. On the other hand, Surely You're Joking has been in my personal pile since my mum gave me a battered old copy circa 1999 so if they've not ever done Feynman I'd like the impetus to read it.</p> I may be wrong but I think What do You Care… was one of the books they read in the year and a half that I was on the mailing list but miserably failing to go to any sessions. On the other hand, Surely You’re Joking has been in my personal pile since my mum gave me a battered old copy circa 1999 so if they’ve not ever done Feynman I’d like the impetus to read it.

]]> By: Lawrence http://www.dougalstanton.net/blog/index.php/2009/06/26/science-reading-modern-science-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-16274 Lawrence Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:02:21 +0000 http://www.dougalstanton.net/blog/?p=832#comment-16274 <p>The Character of Physical Law is good. As are the autobiographical Feynman works (surely you're joking and What do you care what other people think).</p> <p>History of Western Philosophy is hard going! Music of the Primes (du Sautoy) is quite good, although I got irritated at the repetitions of the same thing in different words and the way it was written a bit too much like a detective story. I enjoyed "The collapse of chaos" in years gone by.</p> The Character of Physical Law is good. As are the autobiographical Feynman works (surely you’re joking and What do you care what other people think).

History of Western Philosophy is hard going! Music of the Primes (du Sautoy) is quite good, although I got irritated at the repetitions of the same thing in different words and the way it was written a bit too much like a detective story. I enjoyed “The collapse of chaos” in years gone by.

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