Thanks to all who responded to my request for novel/biography suggestions =
for a physics class. The teacher was very impressed.
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My son, a physics major, gave me a collection of essays by Richard Feymann =
called, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out. Even I enjoyed them! One =
chapter is from a lecture he gave his students about how machines could =
be made smaller and smaller and computers could eventually be made to fit =
on the end of a pin......then the payoff is when he said this.......1957!!!=
If you'd rather have fiction, there is a new Paul Zindel novel out called =
the Gadget about a kid whose father is a physicist in the 1940's in Los =
Alamos, working on guess what...the a-bomb. Suspenseful, but maybe a =
little young if=20
you have juniors & seniors.
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I've not read the entire thing yet, but you might try Einstein's Dreams by =
Alan Lightman. It was a NY Times bestseller and got great newspaper =
reviews. I'm liking what I"ve read so far.
*
Clarke, Arthur C.
2061: odyssey three. (Two expeditions into space are inextricably tangled =
by human necessity and the immutable laws of physics. Heywood Floyd must =
confront a newly independent HAL, and the power of an alien race that had =
decided mankind is to play a part in the evolution of the galaxy whether =
it wants to or not.)
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Anything about Richard Fenyman should do it. Our kids love them. There are =
3 or 4 out there.
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A WONDERFUL novel by Alan Lightman (prof. at MIT) is Einstein's Dreams.
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The first mention I saw of this novel was on a listserv for International =
Baccalaureate educators. As I also (in addition to being the librarian)
teach Theory of Knowledge, I thought it would be a good choice to use with
some of my students. Before ordering it for the library, I bought a
personal copy and read it. Even for this mathematically-challenged old
English major morphed into a librarian, it was a great read!
"Uncle Petros & Goldbach's Conjecture; a Novel of Mathematical Conjecture"
by Apostolos Doxiadis. Bloomsbury, 2000.
"*mathematical genius uncle driven mad trying to solve it*."
Ties in nicely with =B3A Beautiful Mind=B2 also!=20
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Check out "Einstein's Bridge" by John Cramer. He's a working physicist at =
U.W. plus he's written a couple of works of fiction.
*Have you looked at the Russell Stannard books? =20
*
There are several biographies of Richard Feynman, Stephen Hawking and =
traditional scientist such as Einstein, Newton.
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E=3DMC2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation by David =
Bodanis. This is a great book. It makes the physics very accessible.=20
***
Kathy Marsh
Library Media Specialist
Potomac Falls High School
Potomac Falls, Virginia
kmarsh@co.loudoun.va.us
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