Literate Scientist

This book I bought some time ago to learn more about biology. I’ve just finished it and found it very good explaining what the science is, what is the difference between physical and life sciences. It also provides great overview of the subject, its history and philosophy, including taxonomy, evolution, ecology and ethics. I now adapt some ideas from biology to the science of memory dump analysis. There are some structural book organization deficiencies that would have made the book better. There are notes and the end of the book but I would prefer to have them to be footnotes. Also there is a very useful glossary at the end of the book too but for the beginner in any science it is useful to have definitions in footnotes ready to read when they are first encountered.

This Is Biology: The Science of the Living World

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Because I plan my own engineering autobiography I now started reading various biographies and autobiographies to see what people write there. This month I started reading the biography of P. A. M. Dirac. I usually read a chapter or two during my lunch time and so far progressed to the page 184. The book is very interesting and I’m looking forward for the next lunch to read next chapter every day.

The Strangest Man: The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius

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I was always intrigued by String Theory since 90s when my boss at Interactive Products, Inc., the physicist in the past, mentioned that in that theory mathematical apparatus changes every 6 months. While waiting for a flight in London Heathrow airport in 2002 I bought a popular book “The Elegant Universe” by Brian Greene. Later I read two books about String Theory Not Even Wrong and the Trouble With Physics that criticise the theory. Last year I also read The Road to Reality that has a few critical chapters about String Theory. However I always wanted to understand the mathematics behind the theory and see derivations. And I was delighted when the first edition of Barton Zwiebach’s book appeared in print and I immediately bought it. Although I read only a few chapters of it and never finished it, when the second edition came out I bought it too and started reading the book again. I hope to finish it this year.

A First Course in String Theory

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