Fritz's Book Recommendations

Fritz always brings great books to our meetings. Here is a list of some of his past recommendations.
Deep Medicine: Artificial Intelligence Can make Healthcare Human Again, by Eric Topol et al.

Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime, by Sean Carroll, whom Fritz called a “great explainer.”

 The First ChineseAmerican by Seligman

Universe and Life, two anthologies edited by Brockman

Are we Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? By Frans DeWall

The Bonobo and the Atheist: In Search of Humanism Among the Primates, By Frans DeWall

The Gardener and theCarpenter, by Alison Gopnik 

Mathematical Understanding of Nature by Vladimeer Arnold

Mathematics, Its Content, Methods and Meaning by Aleksandrov et al.,  


The Swerve: How the World Became Modern, by Steven Greenblatt

The Nature of Things, by Lucretius.

Wolfram Language, by Stephen Wolfram.

How to Read a Page, by I.A. Richards.

Thing Explainer, by Randall Monroe

The Invention of Science by David Wootton

 A Beautiful Question, by Frank Wilczek

Adventures in the Anthropocene,  by GaiaVince

Why Information Grows, by Cesar Hidalgo

Stuff Matters, by Mark Miodownik

Dirt, by William Logan. A favorite of Fritz, and 2015 is International Year of Soil, (as well as Light).

How to Bake pi, by Eugenia Cheng, also a favorite of Fritz

Life’s Engines, Falkowski, by a geochemist about how microscopic life runs the world.

Mystery of Time, by John Langone? This book, unfortunately, didn’t make it around the table, because people started reading it during the meeting, so I’m not sure of the author. A quick search on Amazon gave this version, but I’m not sure it’s the one Fritz brought – maybe he will offer more clarification, or bring it again.

Practical Criticism, by I. A. Richards. This book is about the practice of close reading, and is one of Amazon’s best books of 2015.




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