Princeton Science Library

The Princeton Science Library is a book series of popular science written by scientists known for their popular writings and originally published by Princeton University Press.

Cover of The Causes of Evolution, Princeton University press reprint in 1990

Cover of The Nature of Space and Time, print in 1996

2007 cover for T. Rex and the Crater of Doom

Books include:

• Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott (1884)
• The Meaning of Relativity: Including the Relativistic Theory of the Non-Symmetric Field by Albert Einstein (1922)
• The Causes of Evolution by J.B.S. Haldane (1932)
• How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method by George Polya (1945)
• The Mathematician's Mind: The Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field by Jacques Hadamard (1945)
• Symmetry by Hermann Weyl (1952)
• The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory by Pierre Maurice Marie Duhem (1954)
• Eye and Brain by Richard L. Gregory (1966)
• The Enjoyment of Math by Hans Rademacher and Otto Toeplitz (1966)
• Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought by George Christopher Williams (1966)
• The New Science of Strong Materials or Why You Don't Fall Through the Floor by J. E. Gordon (1968)
• The Logic of Life : A History of Heredity by François Jacob (1976)
• Why Big Fierce Animals Are Rare: An Ecologist's Perspective by Paul A. Colinvaux (1978)
• Hands by John R. Napier (1980), edited by Russell H. Tuttle (1993)
• The Laws of the Game: How the principles of nature govern chance by Manfred Eigen and Ruthild Winkler (1981)
• Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite by Rudy Rucker (1982)
• The Evolution of Culture in Animals by John Tyler Bonner (1983)
• Neuronal Man by Jean-Pierre Changeux (1983)
• QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard P. Feynman (1985)
• Fearful Symmetry: The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics by Anthony Zee (1986 1st ed) (1997 2nd ed)
• A View of the Sea: A Discussion between a Chief Engineer and an Oceanographer about the Machinery of the Ocean Circulation by Henry M. Stommel (1987)
• Encounters with Einstein: And Other Essays on People, Places, and Particles by Werner Heisenberg (1989)
• The Quantum World by John C. Polkinghorne (1989)
• Chance and Chaos by David Ruelle (1991)
• Liquid Crystals: Nature's Delicate Phase of Matter by Peter J. Collings (1991)
• Fractals : Endlessly Repeated Geometrical Figures by Hans Lauwerier (1991)
• 100 Billion Suns: The Birth Life and Death of the Stars by Rudolf Kippenhahn (1993)
• "e" : The Story of a Number by Eli Maor (1994)
• The Garden in the Machine: The Emerging Science of Artificial Life by Claus Emmeche (1994)
• A Natural History of Shells by Geerat J. Vermeij (1995)
• Total Eclipses of the Sun by Jack B. Zirker (1995)
• The Nature of Space and Time by Stephen W. Hawking and Roger Penrose (1996)
• Celestial Encounters: The Origins of Chaos and Stability by Florin Diacu and Philip Holmes (1996)
• T. Rex and the Crater of Doom by Walter Alvarez (1997)
• An Imaginary Tale: The Story of √-1 by Paul J. Nahin (1998)
• The Extravagant Universe : Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Cosmos by Robert P. Kirshner (2002)
• Gamma: Exploring Euler's Constant by Julian Havil (2003)
• Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth by Andrew H. Knoll (2004)
• Plows, Plagues and Petroleum: How Humans Took Control of Climate by William F. Ruddiman (2005)
• Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved by Frans de Waal (2006)
• Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula: Cures Many Mathematical Ills by Paul J. Nahin (2011)