Charles Seife is an American author, journalist, and professor at New York University. He has written extensively on scientific and mathematical topics.
Career
[edit]Seife holds a mathematics degree from Princeton University (1993),[1] an M.S. in mathematics from Yale University and an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University.[2]
Seife wrote for Science magazine and New Scientist before joining the Department of Journalism at New York University where he became a professor.[2]
Books
[edit]His first and best-known published book is Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (Viking, 2000).
In Proofiness: How You're Being Fooled By the Numbers (Penguin, 2010) Seife focuses on how much propaganda uses numbers worded in such a way that they confuse people and can be misinterpreted.[3]
- 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
- Seife, Charles (2008). Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking. Penguin. ISBN 9780670020331.
- Seife, Charles (2015-08-04). Virtual Unreality: The New Era of Digital Deception. Penguin. ISBN 9780143127673; pbk
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - Seife, Charles (2021). Hawking Hawking: The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity. Basic Books. ISBN 978-1-5416-1837-4.
- Seife, Charles (2010). Proofiness: How You're Being Fooled by the Numbers. New York: Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-312007-0.
- Seife, Charles (2000). Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 9780140296471.
Other writing
[edit]Seife's freelance work has appeared in The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Scientific American, and The Economist, among others.[2] Throughout his career, he has written many book reviews, especially of books which focus on mathematics. Seife also wrote an essay which is currently featured in Rereading America: Cultural Contexts for Critical Thinking and Writing. His essay, “The Loneliness of The Interconnected,” focuses on how the internet may make its users more isolated.
Professional associations
[edit]Seife is a member of PEN, the National Association of Science Writers, and the D.C. Science Writers Association.[citation needed]
Awards
[edit]- 2001 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction for Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
References
[edit]- ^ Greenwood, Katherine Federici (13 October 2010). Numbers can mislead - Charles Seife ’93 reveals mischief behind data, Princeton Alumni Weekly
- ^ a b c Journalism at NYU - Faculty Archived April 6, 2008, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Steven Strogatz, Fibbing With Numbers, The New York Times, 17 September 2010
