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An intellectually charged glimpse into a fleeting moment of scientific camaraderie just before the world and physics lost their innocence. These 12 books are the closest matches in mood, pace and themes, with what each one shares with Faust in Copenhagen.
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Copenhagen
Michael Frayn · 1999
A ghostly, intellectual sparring match that uses the laws of quantum physics to map the unknowable mysteries of the human heart.
- 02
The strangest man
Graham Farmelo
An illuminating journey into the brilliant, contradictory mind of one of modern science's most enigmatic figures.
- 03
Helgoland
Carlo Rovelli
A dizzying, poetic plunge into the quantum realm that will leave you questioning the very fabric of reality.
- 04
Genius
James Gleick · 1992
An exhilarating journey into the mind of a brilliant, bongo-playing iconoclast who saw the universe differently than anyone else.
- 05
The Alchemy of Air
Thomas Hager · 2008
A gripping, tragic narrative history about the brilliant minds who pulled bread from the air and inadvertently unleashed a century of unprecedented destruction.
- 06
In Search of Schrödinger's Cat
John Gribbin · 1984
A mind-bending journey that dismantles your everyday understanding of reality and rebuilds it with the bizarre rules of the quantum realm.
- 07
Einstein
Walter Isaacson
An expansive, illuminating journey into the rebellious mind of a man who unlocked the universe while struggling with the gravity of his own human life.
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Isaac Newton
James Gleick · 2003
An elegant, atmospheric plunge into the obsessive and brilliant mind that dragged humanity out of the dark ages and into the light of modern physics.
- 09
The God particle
Leon Lederman; Dick Teresi
A witty, mind-expanding journey to the very bottom of reality, guided by a brilliant physicist who never takes himself too seriously.
- 10
Quantum Computing Since Democritus
Scott Aaronson
An informal, mind-expanding tour through the deepest philosophical and scientific questions of computation and reality.
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The great equations
Robert P. Crease · 2009
A panoramic journey through the history of science that treats mathematical equations as profound works of art.
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Betraying Spinoza
Rebecca Goldstein
A thoughtful, humanizing excavation of the trauma and brilliance behind one of history's most famous heretics.
