The Princeton Science Library is a book series of

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. Books include: * '' Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions'' by Edwin Abbott Abbott (1884) * ''The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory'' by Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem (1914, English tr., 1954) * ''

The Meaning of Relativity ''The Meaning of Relativity: Four Lectures Delivered at Princeton University, May 1921'' is a book published by Princeton University Press in 1922 that compiled the 1921 Stafford Little Lectures at Princeton University, given by Albert Einstein. ...

: Including the Relativistic Theory of the Non-Symmetric Field'' by Albert Einstein (1922) * '' The Causes of Evolution'' by

J.B.S. Haldane John Burdon Sanderson Haldane (; 5 November 18921 December 1964), nicknamed "Jack" or "JBS", was a British-Indian scientist who worked in physiology, genetics, evolutionary biology, and mathematics. With innovative use of statistics in biolog ...

(1932) * '' How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method'' by

George Polya George may refer to: People * George (given name) * George (surname) * George (singer), American-Canadian singer George Nozuka, known by the mononym George * George Washington, First President of the United States * George W. Bush, 43rd Presid ...

(1945) * ''The Mathematician's Mind: The Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field'' by Jacques Hadamard (1945) * ''Symmetry'' by

Hermann Weyl Hermann Klaus Hugo Weyl, (; 9 November 1885 – 8 December 1955) was a German mathematician, theoretical physicist and philosopher. Although much of his working life was spent in Zürich, Switzerland, and then Princeton, New Jersey, he is assoc ...

(1952) * '' Eye and Brain'' by Richard L. Gregory (1966) * '' The Enjoyment of Math'' by Hans Rademacher and

Otto Toeplitz Otto Toeplitz (1 August 1881 – 15 February 1940) was a German mathematician working in functional analysis., reprinted in Life and work Toeplitz was born to a Jewish family of mathematicians. Both his father and grandfather were ''Gymnasiu ...

(1966) * '' Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought'' by

George Christopher Williams George Christopher Williams (May 12, 1926 – September 8, 2010) was an American evolutionary biologist. Williams was a professor of biology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook who was best known for his vigorous critique of grou ...

(1966) * ''The New Science of Strong Materials or Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor'' by

J. E. Gordon James Edward Gordon (UK, 1913–1998) was one of the founders of materials science and biomechanics, and a well-known author of three books on structures and materials, which have been translated in many languages and are still widely used in scho ...

(1968) * ''The Logic of Life: A History of Heredity'' by François Jacob (1976) * '' Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare: An Ecologist's Perspective'' by

Paul A. Colinvaux Paul Colinvaux (September 22, 1930 – February 28, 2016) was an ecologist and professor emeritus at Ohio State University. Colinvaux was born in London, England. He attended University College School ("UCS") in London, where his activities incl ...

(1978) * ''Hands'' by

John R. Napier John Russell Napier, Membership of the Royal College of Surgeons, MRCS, Royal College of Physicians, LRCP, Doctor of Science, D.Sc. (1917 – 29 August 1987) was a British primatologist, Paleoanthropology, paleoanthropologist, and physician, wh ...

(1980), edited by Russell H. Tuttle (1993) * ''The Laws of the Game: How the principles of nature govern chance'' by Manfred Eigen and Ruthild Winkler (1981) * '' Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite'' by Rudy Rucker (1982) * '' The Evolution of Culture in Animals'' by John Tyler Bonner (1983) * '' Neuronal Man'' by

Jean-Pierre Changeux Jean-Pierre Changeux (; born 6 April 1936) is a French neuroscientist known for his research in several fields of biology, from the structure and function of proteins (with a focus on the allosteric proteins), to the early development of the ner ...

(1983) * '' QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter'' by Richard P. Feynman (1985) * ''Time Frames: The Evolution of Punctuated Equilibria'' by Niles Eldredge (1985) * '' Fearful Symmetry: The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics'' by

Anthony Zee Anthony Zee (, b. 1945) (Zee comes from /ʑi23/, the Shanghainese pronunciation of 徐) is a Chinese-American physicist, writer, and currently a professor at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics and the physics department of the Univers ...

(1986 1st ed) (1997 2nd ed) * '' A View of the Sea: A Discussion between a Chief Engineer and an Oceanographer about the Machinery of the Ocean Circulation'' by

Henry M. Stommel Henry Melson Stommel (September 27, 1920 – January 17, 1992) was a major contributor to the field of physical oceanography. Beginning in the 1940s, he advanced theories about global Ocean current, ocean circulation patterns and the behavior of t ...

(1987) * '' Encounters with Einstein: And Other Essays on People, Places, and Particles'' by Werner Heisenberg (1989) * '' The Quantum World'' by John C. Polkinghorne (1989) * ''Atom and Void: Essays on Science and Community'' by J. Robert Oppenheimer (1989) * '' Chance and Chaos'' by David Ruelle (1991) * ''The Miner's Canary: Extinctions Past and Present'' by Niles Eldredge (1991) * ''Liquid Crystals: Nature's Delicate Phase of Matter'' by Peter J. Collings (1991) * ''Fractals: Endlessly Repeated Geometrical Figures'' by (1991) * '' 100 Billion Suns: The Birth Life and Death of the Stars'' by

Rudolf Kippenhahn Rudolf Kippenhahn (24 May 1926 – 15 November 2020) was a German astrophysicist and science author. Biography Rudolf Kippenhahn was born in Pernink, Czechoslovakia. He originally studied mathematics and physics at the University of Erlangen-Nu ...

(1993) * ''"e": The Story of a Number'' by

Eli Maor Eli Maor (born 1937), an historian of mathematics, is the author of several books about the history of mathematics. Eli Maor received his PhD at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He teaches the history of mathematics at Loyola Unive ...

(1994) * ''Designing the Molecular World: Chemistry at the Frontier'' by Philip Ball (1994) * ''The Supernova Story'' by Laurence Marschall (1994) * '' The Garden in the Machine: The Emerging Science of Artificial Life'' by

Claus Emmeche Claus Emmeche (born 1956) is a Danish theoretical biologist and philosopher, one of founders of contemporary biosemiotics. He is associate professor at the University of Copenhagen, and is head of the Center for the Philosophy of Nature and Sci ...

(1994) * '' A Natural History of Shells'' by

Geerat J. Vermeij Geerat J. Vermeij is a Dutch-born paleoecologist and evolutionary biologist in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at the University of California, Davis. He studies marine molluscs both as fossils and as living creatures. He received ...

(1995) * '' Total Eclipses of the Sun'' by Jack B. Zirker (1995) * ''

The Nature of Space and Time ''The Nature of Space and Time'' is a book that documents a debate on physics and the philosophy of physics between the British theoretical physicists Roger Penrose and Stephen Hawking. The book was published by Princeton University Press in 199 ...

'' by Stephen W. Hawking and

Roger Penrose Sir Roger Penrose (born 8 August 1931) is an English mathematician, mathematical physicist, philosopher of science and Nobel Laureate in Physics. He is Emeritus Rouse Ball Professor of Mathematics in the University of Oxford, an emeritus fello ...

(1996) * '' Celestial Encounters: The Origins of Chaos and Stability'' by

Florin Diacu Florin Nicolae Diacu (; April 24, 1959 – February 13, 2018) was a Romanian Canadian mathematician and author. Education and career He graduated with a Diploma in Mathematics from the University of Bucharest in 1983. Between 1983 and 1988 he w ...

and Philip Holmes (1996) * '' A Guide to Fossils'' by Helmut Mayr (1996) * ''

T. Rex and the Crater of Doom ''T. rex and the Crater of Doom'' is a nonfiction book by professor Walter Alvarez that was published by Princeton University Press in 1997. The book discusses the research and evidence that led to the creation of the Alvarez hypothesis, which expl ...

'' by Walter Alvarez (1997) * '' How the Leopard Changed Its Spots: The Evolution of Complexity'' by

Brian Goodwin Brian Carey Goodwin (25 March 1931 – 15 July 2009) (St Anne de Bellevue, Quebec, Canada - Torbay, Devon, UK) was a Canadian mathematician and biologist, a Professor Emeritus at the Open University and a founder of theoretical biology and bio ...

(1997) * ''An Imaginary Tale: The Story of

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Paul J. Nahin Paul J. Nahin (born November 26, 1940 in Orange County, California) is an American electrical engineer and author who has written 20 books on topics in physics and mathematics, including biographies of Oliver Heaviside, George Boole, and Claude Sha ...

(1998) * ''ecology and evolution of Darwin's finches'' by

Peter R. Grant Peter Raymond Grant (born October 26, 1936) and Barbara Rosemary Grant (born October 8, 1936) are a British married couple who are evolutionary biologists at Princeton University. Each currently holds the position of emeritus professor. They ...

(1999) * ''Trigonometric Delights'' by

(2002) * ''The Extravagant Universe: Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Cosmos'' by Robert P. Kirshner (2002) * ''Gamma: Exploring Euler's Constant'' by (2003) * '' Journey from the Center of the Sun'' by Jack B. Zirker (2004) * ''Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth'' by

Andrew H. Knoll Andrew Herbert Knoll (born 1951) is the Fisher Research Professor of Natural History and a Research Professor of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University. Born in West Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1951, Andrew Knoll graduated from Lehigh U ...

(2004) * ''

Plows, Plagues and Petroleum ''Plows, Plagues and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate'' is a 2005 book published by Princeton University Press and written by William Ruddiman, a paleoclimatologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia. He has autho ...

: How Humans Took Control of Climate'' by

William F. Ruddiman William F. Ruddiman is a palaeoclimatologist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Virginia. Ruddiman earned an undergraduate degree in geology in 1964 at Williams College, and a Ph.D. in marine geology from Columbia University in 1969. Rudd ...

(2005) * '' Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved'' by Frans de Waal (2006) * ''The Pythagorean Theorem: A 4,000-Year History'' by

(2007) * ''Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula: Cures Many Mathematical Ills'' by

(2011)

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