The ten best selling physics books - list supplied by Bookpages.
Brief History of Time : From the Big Bang to Black Holes by Stephen Hawking
The author explores the outer reaches of our knowledge of astrophysics and the nature of time and the universe, and reviews the great theories of the cosmos, from Galileo and Newton to Einstein and Poincare.
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Chaos : Making a New Science by James Gleick
This book brings together all the work in a new field of physics, chaos theory, an extension of classical mechanics. The author shows how computers have been able to help researchers, by mapping the whole plane of solutions of non-linear equations.
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Mind of God by Paul Davies
The sequel to “God and the New Physics”, this book explores the fascinating questions of modern physics such as why does maths, an abstract system of logic invented by man, prove to be so useful in understanding the laws of nature?
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Physics of “Star Trek” by Lawrence M Krauss
An easy-to-understand introduction to the complexities of today’s and tomorrow’s physics. The author assess what is and what is not actually possible according to the laws of physics, among all the weird and wonderful things that Kirk, Spock and Scottie got up to in their parallel universe.
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Schrodinger’s Kittens and the Search for Reality: The Quantum Mysteries by John Gribbin
The sequel to “In Search of Schrodinger’s Cat”, this book presents the improvements in experimental techniques that have enabled physicists to formulate and test new theories about the nature of light. The theories are described in the form of the fate of two small cats.
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Does God Play Dice? : New Mathematics of Chaos by Ian Stewart
This text explains how mathematics attempts to cope with chaotic behaviour in many different circumstances, for example, from gas dynamics to the stock exchange, through quantum mechanics and much else besides.
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Beyond Einstein : The Cosmic Quest for the Theory of the Universe by Michio Kaku and Jennifer Thompson
This text approaches scientific questions and theoretical physics with the excitement of a detective story, offering a look at the new science that may make the impossible possible.
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Character of Physical Law by Richard P. Feynman
Based on Feynman’s “Messenger Lectures”, given at Cornell and filmed by the BBC, this book explores the nature of the laws of physics (in particular, those of Newton, Maxwell and Einstein) and their relationship to mathematical formulation.
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QED : Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard P. Feynman
Based on a series of lectures delivered to the general public at the University of California, the author wittily explains the theory of quantum electrodynamics, the central aspect of much of modern physics.
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Penguin Dictionary of Physics by Valerie Pitt, (Ed.)
With over 4500 entries this cross-referenced dictionary covers sciences such as physical chemistry, astronomy, medical physics, computing and engineering. It also covers developments in physics such as quantum physics, nuclear and particle physics, solid-state physics and computer sciences.
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