Ed responds to a survey of university presidents on the five must-read books for undergraduate students and the lack of science and technology books on the resulting list by asking his readers to suggest the five must-read science and technology books.
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February 26, 2004
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Thanks for this post (I relayed it to my department). I'm always happy to defend the literary canon, but it makes me nervous to be in the company of these administrators. I suspect they were giving the answers they thought were expected, answers that would make them look well-read and profound. I'm glad to see that someone suggested both Feynman on Physical Law and Martin Gardner's indispensable Fad & Fallacies in the Name of Science for the science booklist.