/sci/ - Science & Math

A good starting point

>>12000989
eww

>>12001029
What's your alternative?

>>12001034
I'm joking, sorry. Just not into coding.

>>12001052
It's mostly hardware/theory

>>12000924
The 10000 year explosion
The Vital Question, Nick Lane
At our Wits end, Dutton

Honestly i don't think the selfish gene is that good

>>12001576
I'd say it's a lot better than the 10.000y Explosion, which I found elementary and lacking in new ideas. I've also read a couple of papers by Sober & Wilson from which I found the multilevel selection model to be more convincing than Dawkins' reductionist model (for at least some species).

The Road to Reality - Penrose
Addresses cosmology, relativity and QM at a level that anybody familiar with high school math can follow.

>>12000924
Ahahah, I wish there was one. Maybe I wouldn't feel like I'm constantly swimming in a stormy ocean of theory. Solid state physics is pain.

You should try reading "thinking fast and slow" by D. Kahneman. It's a pretty relevant book on the psychology of judgement and decision making.

>>12000924
>>>/reddit/ is that way faggot

Does this count?

>>12002236
>you never read it have you

>>12001757

pretty sure Edward Thorp was the first quant

>>12002615
fuck off, pre faggot era (muh atheism) dawkins is legit good popsci

>>12002615
selfish gene and the blind watchmaker are god tier pop sci books

>>12002759
Do I count? I think that it does. Why did we ever listen to bjork?

The Denial of Death
Our mathematical universe
Outer limits of reason
These are some interesting thought provoking texts.
Plenty more cant be assed typing them.l

>>12003538
There you are. You have been as elusive as I and I am no longer here. Wherever have been, my friend?

>>12003542
Everywhere and nowhere.

>>12000924

>>12003533
River out of eden too

>>12003545
I know, right? It is probably for the best......, I am reading the tooker book. I know that you are his senpai. It isn't half bad.. a bunch of crazy shit. Better than not.... how have you been, my fen? I don come around much, anymore.

People pretending that one in a million is one in a thousand itt. (There is no punctuation for this)

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ESAygQefIPU

>>12003545
Why do you fear recognition from those who do not recognize? I have no ideas.

>>12003545
To my bfff... with a triple "F." You know that that means forevermore, right.???? I can handle it....... o forgotten what i say.

Is this how it is to be? Among the aristocracy L

>>12003568
Sorry, I cannot see from right eye and you all fail.

>>12003678
I look at all he onelr people.

>>12003683
Fuck his...>>12003568
And to what of my lefet eyeyed friend friieng friend? Don't matter!!!

>>12003688
Fuck what?? And i am see withe the right. Away from the bow and the smash in the face.....

>>12003688
I cannot be as thee. Teach be as thee for thee and the myeyyle... who carwse of thessws??

>>12000924
The Selfish Gene is really great. Its not a social science essay, but Dawkin's fantastic work on Darwinism. People only look down on it because they're seething about Dawkin's other atheist work, or because they think its advocating a political ideology.

>>12000924

I’m not joking.
Most people are terriable parents that program rebellion into thier kids

>>12004082
>parents
>sci
...wrong place

How Not to be Wrong

>>12004462
Wrong

>>12003506
is not about being the first, is about how he made enough money to get trump elected

Thinking fast and slow is really good.

>Layman
The Origin of Species even though it isn’t pop-sci, it is so rudimentary and accessible that anyone with a college reading level could understand it.
>auto-didact
Bell’s books on evolution and pic related that you’ve posted. On Growth and Form for the truly committed and also those who have some background in physics.

>>12000924

>>12000924
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ol4mQeBsZ5w

>>12002172
Good recommendation

>>12003568
Wave
As for the rest of you.
Perhaps broaden your horizons.
Whilst theory is great to expand your knowledge, you are human after all.
Siddhartha
Self Reliance
Journey to the west. If you can't be assed Monkey.
The problem with many science books is they lack humility.
The Elements is truly one of the greatest books ever written.
If you cant be bothered reading Godel or Turings papers
The Annotated Turing.

By far my favourite read of all time.

>>12002172
there’s no evidence for multilevel selection brainlet

I'd give them Krashen's paper on language acquisition because it's actually pretty to read. I'd also give them that dover book on intro to info theory because it's super fun to get through. This wouldn't really tell them about what I do but I'd like someone to talk to about the things I like.

>>12003868
>schlomo sternberg

>>12008314
Its a really good book on Advanced Calc and introduction to Manifolds+Functional Analysis; and Sternberg’s diff geo lectures are also really well done and especially useful to physicists. He is a based Jew.

i got this book for my nephew when he was a freshman in high school. it didn't seem awful and he said he enjoyed it. i wouldn't say id recommend it as i never read it, but maybe give it a shot. anything that gets the public at least thinking about science or mathematics is a decent book in my mind though