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

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Updated 14 December 2025
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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.


What We Are Reading Today: ‘Behind Deep Blue’ by Feng-Hsiung Hsu

Updated 17 December 2025
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What We Are Reading Today: ‘Behind Deep Blue’ by Feng-Hsiung Hsu

On May 11, 1997, millions worldwide heard news of a stunning victory, as a machine defeated the defending world chess champion, Garry Kasparov.

“Behind Deep Blue” tells the inside story of the quest to create the mother of all chess machines and what happened at the two historic Deep Blue vs. Kasparov matches. Feng-hsiung Hsu, the system architect of Deep Blue, reveals how a modest student project started at Carnegie Mellon in 1985 led to the production of a multimillion-dollar supercomputer.