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What would you like to read for January 2017?
What If?: Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature
The Hunt for Vulcan: . . . And How Albert Einstein Destroyed a Planet, Discovered Relativity, and Deciphered the Universe
Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business
Darwin's Ghosts: The Secret History of Evolution
Chasing Venus: The Race to Measure the Heavens
Thinking In Numbers: On Life, Love, Meaning, and Math
Naked Statistics: Stripping the Dread from the Data
Math Bytes: Google Bombs, Chocolate-Covered Pi, and Other Cool Bits in Computing
A Troublesome Inheritance: Genes, Race and Human History
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Computing a flight trajectory in Angry Birds may sound trivial until you realize it gives you a serious insight into the reasoning that goes for coding and computing topological issues.
As a reader said somewhere, this may be a - beach book for mathematicians. Mathematician and non-mathematicians alike, we all can use a little R&R and humor while being serious about the work ahead.