Please recommend a book about a famous mathematician or scientist
Something along the lines of:
-Ben Franklin By Walter Isaacson
-Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
-Genius by James Gleick
-The Man Who Loved Only Numbers by Paul Hoffman
-The Man Who Knew Infinity by Robert Kanigel
-A Beautiful Mind by Sylvia Nasar
Preferably something I haven't heard of. Thank you!
Edit: Jay, I've also already read (and thoroughly enjoyed) a number of the books by/about Feynman:
-Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
-What Do You Care What Other People Think?
-The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
-The Meaning of It All
Recommendations
The Information
Not a biography of a single individual but a wonderful read. Acclaimed science writer James Gleick presents an eye-opening vision of how our relationship to information has transformed the very nature of human consciousness. Gleick profiles key innovators, including Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Samuel Morse, and Claude Shannon, and reveals how our understanding of information is transforming not only how we look at the world, but how we live.
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman
One of the most famous science books of our time, the phenomenal national bestseller that "buzzes with energy, anecdote and life. It almost makes you want to become a physicist" (Science Digest).