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As much as I like this guy and his work, I'd downvote this if I could since the article contains almost no content that supports the title. It's just a blanent PR plug.

A good mathematical proof is like a poem, not a telephone directory.

She's read some of Dawkins and Gould and as parents we try our best to support all her interests but there's still a dearth of engaging books covering technical subjects at an inte…

Physics for Future Presidents is a great book - my wife gave her a copy last spring. I don't know if my daughter finished it but I know she said she found it interesting. We have t…

Perhaps simplistic is the wrong word. To me the sample chapter[1] doesn't seem like it would be very engaging for my daughter since she's only perhiperally interested in things tha…

The sample chapter seems too simplistic so I'm not sure my daughter would find it interesting, but I'm curious - do you know any teenagers who liked it?

I'm a programmer by profession. I have a teenage daughter with a general interest in art and biology. She does well in math and science in school but isn't very enthusiastic about …

Except in this case he's only quoting John Levine.

My wife gave me this great book for Christmas: Love and Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality by Edward Frenkel It begins with the author's struggle to learn the math behind quantum ph…