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Mathews, C. K., Van Holde, K. E.; Biochemistry, 2nd Ed. The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company, 1996.
This book is a remarkable reference of biochemistry. It was one of the primary sources used in compiling the website, as well as the text which taught the author biochemistry. Its excellent illustrations and clear descriptions make it a leading text in the field for all who are interested in learning about the wonderful world of Biochemistry.
The book is divided into five parts:
- The Realm of Biochemistry (Introduction)
- Molecular Architecture of Living Matter (Structure of biochemical compounds)
- Dynamics of Life: Catalysis and Control of Biochemical Reactions (Enzymes)
- Dynamics of Life: Energy, Biosynthesis, and Utilization of Precursors (Metabolism)
- Information (Genetics)
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Hofstadter, D. R.; Gödel, Escher, Bach : An Eternal Golden Braid. Vintage Books, 1989.
Have you ever wondered, how the mathematical logic behind music, language, and art functions? If so, this book is one that you must read. Hofstadter brings together various elements of the two worlds of formal reasoning and the fine arts, in a beautiful fugue of thoughts. He performs this feat by examining the work of mathematician Kurt Gödel, artist M.C. Escher, and composer Johann Sebastian Bach, whose methods are critiqued in order to discover the fundemental relationship between art and math, in their nature as symbols.
Although the work becomes quite complicated at times, this Pulitzer prize-winning author navigates even the most difficult concepts with ease, making this book a remarkable introduction to the worlds of philosophy, mathematics, artifical intelligence, and the fine arts. In the end, you will discover the paradigm, which Hofstadter establishes to explain the ways in which the human mind functions to interpret the reality around it.
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Zukav, G.; The Dancing Wu Li Masters : An Overview of the New Physics. Bantam Books, 1994.
Wu Li is Chinese for Physics, however literally it means "patterns of organic matter." This is how this remarkable book by Zukav begins, and continues on through an intruging discussion of the "new" physics. The reader is taken back to the beginning of the discovery of the quantum world and shown the experiments that rocked the foundation of physics throughout the early part of the twentieth century. Zukav continues then by explaining the implications quantum reality has on us as human beings and humanity itself.
This book is written to be understood by the lay person, yet is so intriguing that even the most accomplished physicist will be enriched upon reading it. What's more, it reads like a novel, yet gives an educational experience that is rarely acheived through a book. The description of the Dance of quantum particles will bring you closer to the understanding of just how beautiful, complex, and spooky the (quantum) world is. No scientist should consider her education complete, unless she had read this book.
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Gell-Mann, M.; The Quark and the Jaguar : Adventures in the Simple and the Complex. W H Freeman & Co., 1994.
Gell-Mann, the Nobel prize-winning scientist in physics, brings to the world a book that undertakes an impressive intellectual endeavor of describing the theory of complexity. In this extremely well-written text, Gell-Mann describes the idea of a "complex adaptive system," such as a human being or jaguar, and its realtionship to simplicity, such as the quark and the elusive Theory of Everything.
Gell-Mann's writing incorporates the distantly related fields of evolution, language, culture, consciousness, ecology, quantum mechanics, superstring theory, chaos, randomness, and entropy. In his discussion, it is evident that world is deeply connected in all its parts, and helps one appreciate the natural world. The book is written for someone from a scientific background, yet even the "week-end scientist" will gain a lot from having read this book.
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