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(This entry also appears in the new blog of the magazine Scientific American .)

is not easy to recommend quality scientific publication. Disenchant too simplistic texts to readers seeking a refined understanding. Overly technical texts are dry, do not give a global vision and lose the reader in a world of formulas.

Some books do manage to convey a spirit. I always recommend "The a mathematician's apology "by GH Hardy. His work in Cambridge with Ramanujan is the background of the book. Hardy argues with subtlety the privileges of his profession. Among them, the most sublime was working with a genuine genius.

This Similarly, we VF Weisskopf's book "The privilege of being a physicist." Humanist consummate music lover, Weisskopf went CERN, harmonized the worlds of science and faith, made significant estimates in quantum electrodynamics.

The letters between Born and Einstein always fascinated me. distill mutual respect among real scientists. The intellectual struggle is secondary compared to the friendship and a will staunch to understand the structure of quantum theories. A fourth recommendation

-reaching are the books on the relationship of quantum physics and Heisenberg's philosophy. They are exquisitely accurate. Each concept is carefully formulated, each idea that has become obsolete is regarded with respect.

contemporary Disclosure (topic for another day) also consolidated in audiovisual media. I commend all the work done from the Perimeter Institute (its founder, M. Lazarides, was enriched by his company creator of the Blackberry RIM). In particular, their latest video on Dark Matter is an ambitious attempt to make disclosure high scientific level.