INTRODUCTION
Abbott, Edwin A. Flatland. New York: Dover, 1952.
Abbott, Edwin A. The Annotated Flatland. With introduction and notes by Ian Stewart. Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus, 2002.
Wigner, Eugene. “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences,” Communications in Pure and Applied Mathematics, reprinted in Ferris, T., ed., The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1991, pp. 526-540.
Lakoff, George and Núñez, Rafael. Where Mathematics Comes From. New York: Basic Books, 2000.
STRANGE MATTER
Crawford, Henry J. and Greiner, Carsten H. “The Search for Strange Matter.” Scientific American 270 (January 1994), 72-77.
Pais, Abraham. Inward Bound. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
MIRROR MATTER
Dirac, P. A. M. Directions in Physics. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1978.
Pais, Abraham. Inward Bound. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986.
Pais, Abraham. The Genius of Science. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000.
SUPER MATTER
Byers, Nina. “E. Noether’s Discovery of the Deep Connection between Symmetries and Conservation Laws.” xxx.lanl.gov/abs/ physics/9807044, version 2, September 23, 1998.
Kane, Gordon. Supersymmetry. Cambridge, Mass.: Perseus, 2000.
Weyl, Hermann. Symmetry. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1952.
DARK MATTER
Solomey, Nickolas. The Elusive Neutrino. New York: Scientific American Library, 1997.
THE BEST OF ALL POSSIBLE BUBBLES
Guth, Alan. The Inflationary Universe. Reading, Mass.: Helix Books, 1997.
Rees, Martin. Before the Beginning. Reading, Mass.: Perseus, 1997.
Tropp, E. A., Frenkel, V. Ya., and Chernin, A. D. Alexander A. Friedmann: The Man who Made the Universe Expand. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
THE ESSENCE OF QUINTESSENCE
Caldwell, Robert and Steinhardt, Paul. “Quintessence.” Physics World 13 (November 2000), 31-37.
Krauss, Lawrence. Quintessence. New York: Basic Books, 2000
SUPERSTRINGS
Davies, P. C. W. and Brown, J. R., eds. Superstrings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.
Greene, Brian. The Elegant Universe. New York: Norton, 1999.
Newman, James. “James Clerk Maxwell.” Scientific American 192(June 1955), 58-71. Reprinted in Lives in Science. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957, pp. 155-180.
STRETCHING YOUR BRANE
Abel, Steven and March-Russell, John. “The Search for Extra Dimensions.” Physics World 13 (November 2000), 39-44.
Bernstein, Jeremy. “The Reluctant Father of Black Holes.” Scientific American 274(June 1996), 80-85.
Duff, Michael. “The Theory Formerly Known as Strings.” Scientific American 278(February 1998), 64-69.
Greene, Brian. The Elegant Universe. New York: W. W. Norton, 1999.
Thorne, Kip S. Black Holes and Time Warps. New York: W. W. Norton, 1994.
GHOSTS
Gray, Jeremy. Ideas of Space. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1989.
Kline, Morris. Mathematics and the Search for Knowledge. New York: Oxford University Press, 1985.
Luminet, Jean-Pierre, Starkman, Glenn, and Weeks, Jeffrey. “Is Space Finite?” Scientific American 280(April 1999), 90-97.
Monastyrsky, Michael. Riemann, Topology, and Physics. Second Edition. Translated by Roger Cooke, James King, and Victoria King. Boston: Birkhauser, 1999.
THE TWO-TIMING UNIVERSE
Hull, C. M. “Duality and Strings, Space and Time.” xxx.lanl.gov/abs/ hep-th/9911080, November 11, 1999.
Nahin, Paul. Time Machines. Second Edition. New York: Springer-Verlag, 1999.
Stachel, John. Einstein’s Miraculous Year. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1998.
EPILOGUE
Poincaré, Henri. Mathematics and Science: Last Essays. Translated by J. W. Bolduc. New York: Dover, 1963.
Poincaré, Henri. Science and Hypothesis. New York: Dover, 1952.