Charles Seife
{{Short description|American author, journalist and professor}}
Charles Seife is an American author, journalist, and professor at New York University. He has written extensively on scientific and mathematical topics.
Career
Seife holds a mathematics degree from Princeton University (1993), Greenwood, Katherine Federici (13 October 2010). [http://paw.princeton.edu/issues/2010/10/13/pages/1127/index.xml Numbers can mislead - Charles Seife ’93 reveals mischief behind data], Princeton Alumni Weekly an M.S. in mathematics from Yale University and a M.S. in journalism from Columbia University.[http://journalism.nyu.edu/faculty/seife.html Journalism at NYU - Faculty] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080406140955/http://journalism.nyu.edu/faculty/seife.html |date=April 6, 2008 }}
Seife wrote for Science magazine and New Scientist before joining the Department of Journalism at New York University where he became a professor.
Books
His first and best-known published book is Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (Viking, 2000).{{cite book|last1=Seife|first1=Charles|title=Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea|date=2000|publisher=Penguin Books|location=New York|isbn=9780140296471|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/zerobiographyofd00seif}}
Another well-known book from Seife is Proofiness: How You're Being Fooled By the Numbers (Penguin, 2010).{{cite book|last=Seife|first=Charles|title=Proofiness: How You're Being Fooled by the Numbers|year=2010|publisher=Penguin|location=New York|isbn=978-0-14-312007-0|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ghJaYi3FELMC}} Here, Seife focuses on how much propaganda uses numbers worded in such a way that they confuse people and can be misinterpreted.Steven Strogatz, [https://www.nytimes.com/2010/09/19/books/review/Strogatz-t.html?_r=0 Fibbing With Numbers], The New York Times, 17 September 2010
Other books by Seife are:
- Alpha & Omega: The Search for the Beginning and End of the Universe, Penguin Putnam, 2003. {{ISBN|0-670-03179-8}}
- Decoding the Universe, Penguin, 2007. {{ISBN|978-0-14-303839-9}}
- Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking, Viking, 2008. {{ISBN|978-0-670-02033-1}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BV049zSxqYUC|title = Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking|isbn = 9780670020331|last1 = Seife|first1 = Charles|year = 2008| publisher=Penguin }}
- Virtual Unreality: Just Because the Internet Told You, How Do You Know It's True?, Penguin Putnam, 2014. {{ISBN|0-670-02608-5}}{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eE24oQEACAAJ|title = Virtual Unreality: The New Era of Digital Deception|isbn = 9780143127673|last1 = Seife|first1 = Charles|date = 2015-08-04| publisher=Penguin |postscript=; pbk}}
- Hawking Hawking: The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity, Basic Books, 2021. {{ISBN|9781541618374}}{{Cite book |last=Seife |first=Charles |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4QC-zQEACAAJ |title=Hawking Hawking: The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity |date=2021 |publisher=Basic Books |isbn=978-1-5416-1837-4 |language=en}}
Other writing
Seife's freelance work has appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Scientific American, and The Economist, among others. Throughout his career, he has written many book reviews, especially of books which focus on mathematics.
Professional associations
Seife is a member of PEN, the National Association of Science Writers, and the D.C. Science Writers Association.{{Citation needed |date=July 2023}}
Awards
- 2001 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction for Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
References
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External links
- [http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/seife.html Article on edge.org] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170706075955/http://www.edge.org/3rd_culture/bios/seife.html |date=2017-07-06 }}
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20100205015329/http://www.dcswa.org/mc/page.do?sitePageId=35860&orgId=dcs DC Science Writers Association website]
- [http://www.charlesseife.com Homepage]
- [http://www.wnyc.org/story/just-because-its-internet-it-doesnt-mean-its-true/ Leonard Lopate interview with Charles Seife]
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