Charles Seife
Charles Seife is an American author, journalist and professor.
His first published book was Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea. He had written within the scientific community for years before this, having done freelance work for New Scientist, Scientific American, The Economist, Science, Wired UK and The Sciences, among others.[1]
Prior to his career in Journalism he received an undergraduate degree from Princeton University, an M.S. in mathematics from Yale University and a M.S. in journalism from Columbia University.[2]
He has written five books to date:
- Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea, Penguin Putnam, 2000. ISBN 0-670-88457-X
- Alpha & Omega: The Search for the Beginning and End of the Universe
- Decoding The Universe, 2007
- Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking, 2008
- Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception, 2010 ISBN 978-0670022168
He is currently an associate professor in New York University's Journalism Department.
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[edit] Professional associations
He is a member of PEN, the National Association of Science Writers, and the D.C. Science Writers Association.
Seife is among a small number of people with a defined Erdős–Bacon number, 7.[3][4][5][6]
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[edit] External links
- Article on edge.org
- Charles Seife's Homepage
- NYU Department of Journalism faculty write up
- DC Science Writers Association website
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