NOVA | Physics & Math

Profile: Michio Kaku Physicist Michio Kaku’s dream is to find the “unified theory of everything.” But he does take breaks to go figure skating. Meet Michio.
Physics of Stone Arches See if you can build a cathedral arch without it collapsing, and learn more about the forces at work. Try it yourself.
Dark Matter Physicists have a sneaking suspicion that most of the universe is held together by a mysterious, invisible substance. Watch the segment.

Physics & Math

A Radical Mind

Benoit Mandelbrot, the father of fractals and fractal geometry, was a true maverick, as this interview reveals.
The Dark Matter Mystery

See how a cosmic collision provides evidence that dark matter really exists.
Picturing Atoms

Hear why orbiting electrons drive NOVA scienceNOW host Neil deGrasse Tyson batty.
$Mathematical Siblings$
Mathematical Siblings

Gregory and David Chudnovsky, who share a lab at the Brooklyn Polytechnic University, discuss the beauty of math.

A Brief History of Time: The Illustrated, Updated, and Expanded Edition
by Stephen Hawking
Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration Into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel
by Michio Kaku
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
by Richard P. Feynman
Einstein: His Life and Universe
by Walter Isaacson
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
by Brian Greene
Isaac Newton
by James Gleick
Einstein's Miraculous Year: Five Papers that Changed the Face of Physics
by Albert Einstein and John Stachel, editor
E = mc2: A Biography of the World's Most Famous Equation
by David Bodanis and Simon Singh
The Fractal Geometry of Nature
by Benoit Mandelbrot
The First Three Minutes: A Modern View of the Origin of the Universe
by Steven Weinberg
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid
by Douglas Hofstadter

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