Physics & Math in the News

Links

• American Physical Society www.aps.org

  Learn how our world works according to physics, see a time line of major events, and more.

• Center for History of Physics www.aip.org/history

  Page through photographs and papers from some of the world's best-known physicists.

• American Mathematical Society www.ams.org

  Get involved with the society and learn what it means to be a mathematician.

• Einstein www.amnh.org/exhibitions/einstein

  Read about Einstein's life and ideas at this website from the American Museum of Natural History.

• CERN: The World's Largest Particle Physics Laboratory public.web.cern.ch/public/welcome.html

  See the latest from the European physics laboratory that houses the Large Hadron Collider in Geneva.

• The Particle Adventure www.particleadventure.org

  Explore the forces that hold the subatomic world together.

• Einstein Light – University of New South Wales www.phys.unsw.edu.au/einsteinlight

  Find out how the theory of relativity impacts our ideas of space, time, matter, and energy.

• Famous Problems in the History of Mathematics www.mathforum.org/isaac/mathhist.html

  Stretch your mind and try to puzzle out some classic mathematical problems.

• American Cryptogram Association cryptogram.org

  Learn to make and break codes.

• Wolfram MathWorld mathworld.wolfram.com

  Spend time with this extensive resource and refresh your knowledge of mathematics.

• The Photographic Periodic Table of the Elements periodictable.com

  Find information on every element in the periodic table, generate sortable graphs by element properties, see detailed photos, and more.

Books

• How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival

  by David Kaiser

• A Brief History of Time: The Illustrated, Updated, and Expanded Edition

  by Stephen Hawking

• Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration Into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel

  by Michio Kaku

• QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

  by Richard P. Feynman

• Einstein: His Life and Universe

  by Walter Isaacson

• The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory

  by Brian Greene

• Isaac Newton

  by James Gleick

• Einstein's Miraculous Year: Five Papers that Changed the Face of Physics

  by Albert Einstein and John Stachel, editor

• E = mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation

  by David Bodanis and Simon Singh

• The Fractal Geometry of Nature

  by Benoit Mandelbrot

• The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe

  by Steven Weinberg

• Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid

  by Douglas Hofstadter

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