Books I've Engaged With, 2019-2026
Book I co-authored with Gary Marcus
- Rebooting AI
Book I've extended
- Verses for the Information Age (published on the web)
Book I edited
- ``Will You Marry Me?'' Some First-hand Accounts of Marriage Proposals, 1400-1900
(published on the web).
Books I've reviewed in published reviews
- The Great Math War: How Three Brilliant Minds Fought for the Foundations of Mathematics by Jason Bardi.
- Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares In Sam Altman's OpenAI by Karen Hao
- Starbound: Interstellar Travel and the Limits of the Possible by Ed Regis
- Leibniz in His World: The Making of a Savant by Audrey Borowski
- The Best of All Possible Worlds: A Life of Leibniz in Seven Pivotal Days
by Michael Kempe
- Archimedes: Fulcrum of Science by Nicholas Nicastro.
- The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley by Marietje Schaake
- On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything. by Nate Silver
- Mathematica: A Secret World of Intuition and Curiosity by David Bessis,
- Vector: A Surprising Story of Space, Time, and Mathematical Transformation
- Encounters with Euclid: How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text Shaped the World by Benjamin Wardhaugh.
- The Worlds I See: Curiosity, Exploration, and Discovery at the Dawn of AI by Fei-Fei Li.
- Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What is Human in a World of Machines by Joy Buolamwini
- Your Face Belongs to Us: A Secretive Startup’s Quest to End Privacy as We Know It by Kashmir Hill
- Data Driven: Truckers, Technology, and the New Workplace Surveillance. by Karen Levy
- Phenomena: Doppelmayr’s Celestial Atlas. by Giles Sparrow.
- Axiomatics: Mathematical Thought and High Modernism by Alma Steingart
- The Story of Proof: Logic and the History of Mathematics by John Stillwell.
- John Venn: A Life in Logic by Lucas Verburgt.
- Rules: A Short History of What We Live By by Lorraine Daston
- Mathematician with the Soul of a Poet: Poems and Plays of Sofia Kovalevskaya. translated, edited, and introduced by Sandra DeLozier Coleman
- Uncountable: A Philosophical History of Number and Humanity from Antiquity to the Present. by David Nirenberg and Ricardo Nirenberg.
- Curves for the Mathematically Curious: An Anthology of the Unpredictable, Historical, Beautiful, and Romantic. by Julian Havil.
- Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel, by Stephen Budiansky
- Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else, by Jordan Ellenberg.
- How to Walk on Water and Climb Up Walls: Animal Movements and the Robots of the Future, by David Hu
- Laura Bassi and Science in 18th Century Europe: The Extraordinary Life and Role of Italy’s Pioneering Female Professor, by Monique Frize
- the Life and Work of George Boole: A Prelude to the Digital Age. by Desmond MacHale.
- New Light on George Boole by Desmond MacHale and Yvonne Cohen.
- The Continued Exercise of Reason: Public Addresses by George Boole ed. Brendan Dooley.
- The Pendulum Paradigm: Variations on a Theme and the Measure of Heaven and Earth. by Martin Beech
Books I've reviewed or otherwise discussed individually
in unpublished pieces
- Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York City, by Ross Perlin
- Sister Novelists: The Trailblazing Porter Sisters, Who Paved the Way for Austen and the Brontës, by Devoney Looser
- The Premontion by Michael Lewis.
Other Books I have recommended in works of mine published since 2019
- Weapons of Math Destruction, by Cathy O'Neil
- Thinking Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman,
- How the Mind Works, by Steven Pinker
- Artificial Intelligence, A Modern Approach, by Stuart Russell and Peter
Norvig
- Computer Power and Human Reason, by Joseph Weizenbaum
- What Computers Can't Do, Hubert Dreyfus
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Other Books I have quoted in works of mine published since 2019
- Gulliver's Travels, by Jonathan Swift
- Lost in Math, by Sabine Hossenfelder
- Farmer Boy, by Laura Ingalls Wilder
- Rossum's Universal Robots, by Karl Capek
- The Society of Mind, by Marvin Minsky
- Tell My Horse, by Zora Neale Hurston
Books I have quoted in unpublished works of mine published since 2019