William Poundstone

William Poundstone is an American author, columnist, and skeptic. He has written a number of books including the Big Secrets series and a biography of Carl Sagan. He is a cousin of comedienne Paula Poundstone.

An enthusiast of Harry Stephen Keeler, he maintains the Keeler homepage and contributed to the anthology A to Izzard: A Harry Stephen Keeler Companion (2002).

Bibliography

• Big Secrets: The Uncensored Truth About All Sorts of Stuff You Are Never Supposed to Know (1983)
• The Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge (1984)
• Bigger Secrets: More Than 125 Things They Prayed You'd Never Find Out (1986)
• Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge (1988)
• The Ultimate: The Great Armchair Debates Settled Once and for All (1990)
• Prisoner's Dilemma: John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb (1992)
• Biggest Secrets: More Uncensored Truth About All Sorts of Stuff You Are Never Supposed to Know (1993)
• Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos (1999)
• The Big Book of Big Secrets (2001) reprints Big Secrets and Biggest Secrets
• How Would You Move Mount Fuji? : Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle—How the World's Smartest Companies Select the Most Creative Thinkers (2003)
• Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street (2005)
• Gaming the Vote: Why Elections Aren't Fair (and What We Can Do About It) (2008)
• Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It) (2010)
• Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google? (2011)

External links

• William Poundstone official site
• Fortune's Formula official site
• William Poundstone's talk at Skeptics Distinguished Lecture Series (Video)
• Interview with William Poundstone