What We Are Reading Today: ‘Clouds’ by Edward Graham

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Updated 10 November 2024
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Clouds’ by Edward Graham

The mystery of clouds has captivated scientists and artists alike.

This unique book shows you how to use the meteorological techniques of nephology to identify these elusive and transmutable shapes.

“Clouds” blends a lively and engaging narrative by one of today’s leading meteorologists with an essay on historic cloud art, and includes a wealth of breathtaking cloud studies by some of the greatest artists ever to look skyward.


What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Mathematical Mechanic’ by Mark Levi

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What We Are Reading Today: ‘The Mathematical Mechanic’ by Mark Levi

Everybody knows that mathematics is indispensable to physics—imagine where we’d be today if Einstein and Newton didn’t have the math to back up their ideas.

But how many people realize that physics can be used to produce many astonishing and strikingly elegant solutions in mathematics?

Mark Levi shows how in this delightful book, treating readers to a host of entertaining problems and mind-bending puzzlers that will amuse and inspire their inner physicist.