Currently reading ....

[MicrosoftBob]

The age of Arthur - A history of the British Isles from350 to 650

Borrowed it from the missus, a very old book but worth a read

[doodab]

The Robot Builders Bonanza

[oscarose]

how to solve our human problems by geshe kelsang gyatso

[doodab]

I shall be reading this shortly

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0...pf_rd_i=468294

[Gittins Gal]

The age of Arthur - A history of the British Isles from350 to 650

Borrowed it from the missus, a very old book but worth a read

oooh, that sounds good.

[doodab]

I shall be reading this shortly

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0...pf_rd_i=468294

It really is an excellent book btw. Explains the maths of quantum theory to the nonstupid in an incredibly easy to grasp way, simply by avoiding the assumption that you're stupid and will be unable to cope with it.

I hope he does a gen rel one. These are classics of the genre.

[sasguru]

It really is an excellent book btw. Explains the maths of quantum theory to the nonstupid in an incredibly easy to grasp way, simply by avoiding the assumption that you're stupid and will be unable to cope with it.

I hope he does a gen rel one. These are classics of the genre.

I have the previous one - but didn't enjoy it very much, never did like classical physics.

For spec and gen rel you must get "A Most Incomprehensible Thing" by Collier. A classic.

Currently reading "The Mind of God" by Paul Davies.

[oscarose]

cosmos, the story of cosmic evolution, science and civilisation - Carl Sagan

[MyUserName]

Just finished "They were there" which is a collection of eye witness accounts from various things. The battle of Thermopylae, concentration camps, Hiroshima etc.

Very interesting, the guy who talked about what happened at Hiroshima was quite harrowing.

I have a policy of alternating a factual book with a fictional one so am now on Dr Who The book of Kells (part of a series I got for my birthday).

[OwlHoot]

It really is an excellent book btw. Explains the maths of quantum theory to the nonstupid in an incredibly easy to grasp way ...

The maths of Quantum Theory isn't that bad (in principle - It is often hideously intractable in practical situations).

But to learn it thoroughly one should be able to sort of recapitulate to oneself the process by which the original founders came up with the principles and formalisms etc on the basis of observations.

Putting it another way, one could just accept the mathematical framework without question to answer exam questions, but be stumped if asked to justify it to some imaginary skeptical inquirer.

IMHO the best book with the stated purpose of explaining "where it came from" in that sense (in combination the formal stuff) is "Understanding Quantum Mechanics - A User's Manual", by Michael A Morrison, Prentice-Hall (1990), ISBN 0-13-935678-9