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Quanta to Publish Popular Math and Physics Titles by Terence Tao and David Tong

by digital55 on 12/8/2025, 5:39:55 PM

https://www.simonsfoundation.org/2025/12/08/quanta-books-to-publish-popular-math-and-physics-titles-by-terence-tao-and-david-tong/

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by: adolph

I had the thought that maybe the Australian airline had started a book side business, a la Stripe, but no, the airline is actually Quanta<i>s</i>. Still seems like an imprint to follow.<p><pre><code> Launched by Thomas Lin, the founding editor of Quanta Magazine, in partnership with Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Quanta Books is an editorially independent subsidiary of the Simons Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing the frontiers of research in mathematics and the basic sciences. </code></pre> <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quantabooks.org&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.quantabooks.org&#x2F;</a>

12/8/2025, 6:57:30 PM


by: srean

I might be unusual in the sense that in my teens I absolutely adored Asimov as a writer of non-fiction rather than as a sci-fi author.<p>For the current generation I never miss a chance to mention Gamow&#x27;s non-fiction.<p>It&#x27;s unfortunate that works of great non-fiction writers gradually evaporate away from our cultural consciousness after the authors die.<p>It makes me sad to know there will be a generation, or maybe it&#x27;s already here, one that has not delighted in Martin Gardner.

12/8/2025, 6:21:50 PM


by: thekevan

Dr David Tong is great ad his talk really created my interest in quantum physics.<p><a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=zNVQfWC_evg" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=zNVQfWC_evg</a>

12/8/2025, 6:37:27 PM