Favorite 20th century biographies math music philosophy

Explore the top 20th century biographies in math, music, and philosophy. Discover inspiring life stories of great thinkers, artists, and innovators that shaped history.

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The Man Who Loved Only Numbers

 

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Miles, the autobiography

 

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A Beautiful Mind

by Sylvia Nasar

A biography of John Forbes Nash, Jr., Winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics, 1994.
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Genius

by James Gleick

To his colleagues, Richard Feynman was not so much a genius as he was a full-blown magician: someone who “does things that nobody else could do and that seem completely unexpected.” The path he cleared for twentieth-century physics led from the making of the atomic bomb to a Nobel Prize-winning theory of quantam electrodynamics to his devastating exposĂ© of the Challenger space shuttle disaster. At the same time, the ebullient Feynman established a reputation as an eccentric showman, a master safe cracker and bongo player, and a wizard of seduction. Now James Gleick, author of the bestselling Chaos, unravels teh dense skein of Feynman‘s thought as well as the paradoxes of his character in a biography—which was nominated for a National Book Award—of outstanding lucidity and compassion.