Charles Seife
Template:Short description Charles Seife is an American author, journalist, and professor at New York University. He has written extensively on scientific and mathematical topics.
Career
Seife holds a mathematics degree from Princeton University (1993), [1] an M.S. in mathematics from Yale University and a M.S. in journalism from Columbia University.[2]
Seife wrote for Science magazine and New Scientist before joining the Department of Journalism at New York University where he became a professor. [2]
Books
His first and best-known published book is Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (Viking, 2000).[3]
Another well-known book from Seife is Proofiness: How You're Being Fooled By the Numbers (Penguin, 2010).[4] Here, Seife focuses on how much propaganda uses numbers worded in such a way that they confuse people and can be misinterpreted.[5]
Other books by Seife are:
- Alpha & Omega: The Search for the Beginning and End of the Universe, Penguin Putnam, 2003. Template:ISBN
- Decoding the Universe, Penguin, 2007. Template:ISBN
- Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking, Viking, 2008. Template:ISBN[6]
- Virtual Unreality: Just Because the Internet Told You, How Do You Know It's True?, Penguin Putnam, 2014. Template:ISBN[7]
- Hawking Hawking: The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity, Basic Books, 2021. Template:ISBN[8]
Other writing
Seife's freelance work has appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Scientific American, and The Economist, among others.[2] Throughout his career, he has written many book reviews, especially of books which focus on mathematics.
Professional associations
Seife is a member of PEN, the National Association of Science Writers, and the D.C. Science Writers Association.Script error: No such module "Unsubst".
Awards
- 2001 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction for Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
References
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- ↑ Greenwood, Katherine Federici (13 October 2010). Numbers can mislead - Charles Seife ’93 reveals mischief behind data, Princeton Alumni Weekly
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External links
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- DC Science Writers Association website
- Homepage
- Leonard Lopate interview with Charles Seife
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