Princeton Science Library

The Princeton Science Library is a book series of popular science written by scientists known for their popular writings and originally published by Princeton University Press.

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: Including the Relativistic Theory of the Non-Symmetric Field by Albert Einstein (1922)
 * The Causes of Evolution by J.B.S. Haldane (1932)
 * How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method by George Polya (1945)
 * The Mathematician's Mind: The Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field by Jacques Hadamard (1945)
 * Symmetry by Hermann Weyl (1952)
 * Eye and Brain by Richard L. Gregory (1966)
 * The Enjoyment of Math by Hans Rademacher and Otto Toeplitz (1966)
 * Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought by George Christopher Williams (1966)
 * The New Science of Strong Materials or Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor by J. E. Gordon (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 (1978)
 * Hands by John R. Napier (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 (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 (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 (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 Hans Lauwerier (1991)
 * 100 Billion Suns: The Birth Life and Death of the Stars by Rudolf Kippenhahn (1993)
 * "e": The Story of a Number by Eli Maor (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 (1994)
 * A Natural History of Shells by Geerat J. Vermeij (1995)
 * Total Eclipses of the Sun by Jack B. Zirker (1995)
 * The Nature of Space and Time by Stephen W. Hawking and Roger Penrose (1996)
 * Celestial Encounters: The Origins of Chaos and Stability by Florin Diacu and Philip Holmes (1996)
 * A Guide to Fossils by Helmut Mayr (1996)
 * T. Rex and the Crater of Doom by Walter Alvarez (1997)
 * How the Leopard Changed Its Spots: The Evolution of Complexity by Brian Goodwin (1997)
 * An Imaginary Tale: The Story of $$\sqrt{-1}$$ by Paul J. Nahin (1998)
 * ecology and evolution of Darwin's finches by Peter R. Grant (1999)
 * Trigonometric Delights by Eli Maor (2002)
 * The Extravagant Universe: Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Cosmos by Robert P. Kirshner (2002)
 * Gamma: Exploring Euler's Constant by Julian Havil (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 (2004)
 * Plows, Plagues and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate by William F. Ruddiman (2005)
 * Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved by Frans de Waal (2006)
 * The Pythagorean Theorem: A 4,000-Year History by Eli Maor (2007)
 * Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula: Cures Many Mathematical Ills by Paul J. Nahin (2011)