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Charles Darwin: pocket GIANTS

By Stephen Webster

Isaac Newton: pocket GIANTS

By Dr Andrew May

The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann

By Ananyo Bhattacharya

A Tale of Two Continents

By Abraham Pais

Great Physicists

By William H. Cropper

Seven Ideas that Shook the Universe

By Nathan Spielberg, Bryon D. Anderson

An Inventor in the Garden of Eden

By Eric Laithwaite (Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London)

The Particle at the End of the Universe: Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize

By Sean Carroll

The Hunt for Vulcan: How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet and Deciphered the Universe

By Thomas Levenson

Genius; Great Inventors & their Creations

By Jack Challoner

Mapping the Darkness: The Visionary Scientists Who Unlocked the Mysteries of Sleep

By Kenneth Miller

Darwin Among the Machines

By George Dyson

Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1827: A Life in Exact Science

By Charles Coulston Gillispie

At Home in the Universe

By John Archibald Wheeler

Isaac Newton: Adventurer in Thought

By A. Rupert Hall

Niels Bohr's Times

By Abraham Pais

Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology

By Adrienne Mayor

Einstein: His Life and Universe

By Walter Isaacson

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer

By Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin

Brilliant Lives: The Clerk Maxwells and the Scottish Enlightenment

By John W. Arthur

The Biggest Ideas in the Universe 1: Space, Time and Motion

By Sean Carroll

Remarkable Mathematicians: From Euler to von Neumann

By Ioan James (University of Oxford)

The Particle at the End of the Universe: Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize

By Sean Carroll

A Prisoner's Dilemma

By William Poundstone

Out of the Shadow of a Giant: How Newton Stood on the Shoulders of Hooke and Halley

By John Gribbin, Mary Gribbin

Is Science Necessary?

By M. F. Perutz

The Universe Speaks in Numbers: How Modern Maths Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets

By Graham Farmelo

Albert Einstein's Vision: Remarkable Discoveries That Shaped Modern Science

By Barry R. Parker

To Explain the World: The Discovery of Modern Science

By Steven Weinberg (University of Texas Austin)

I Am a Mathematician

By Norbert Wiener (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)