Brian’s latest books, Ten Billion Tomorrows and How Many Moons does the Earth Have are now available to pre-order. He has written a range of other science titles, including the bestselling Inflight Science, The God Effect, Before the Big Bang, A Brief History of Infinity, Build Your Own Time Machine and Dice World.
Along with appearances at the Royal Institution in London he has spoken at venues from Oxford and Cambridge Universities to Cheltenham Festival of Science, has contributed to radio and TV programmes, and is a popular speaker at schools. Brian is also editor of the successful www.popularscience.co.uk book review site and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.
Brian has Masters degrees from Cambridge University in Natural Sciences and from Lancaster University in Operational Research, a discipline originally developed during the Second World War to apply the power of mathematics to warfare. It has since been widely applied to problem solving and decision making in business.
Brian has also written regular columns, features and reviews for numerous publications, including Nature, The Guardian, PC Week, Computer Weekly, Personal Computer World, The Observer, Innovative Leader, Professional Manager, BBC History, Good Housekeeping and House Beautiful. His books have been translated into many languages, including German, Spanish, Portuguese, Chinese, Japanese, Polish, Turkish, Norwegian, Thai and even Indonesian.
Books in order of publication:
A Brief History of Infinity. Constable & Robinson. 2003.
The First Scientist. Constable & Robinson. 2003.
The God Effect. St Martin’s Press. 2006.
Getting Science. Routledge. 2007.
The Global Warming Survival Kit. Doubleday. 2007.
The Man Who Stopped Time. Joseph Henry Press. 2007.
Upgrade Me. St Martin’s Press. 2008.
Before the Big Bang. St Martin’s Press. 2009.
Ecologic. Eden Project Books. 2009.
Armageddon Science. St Martin’s Press. 2010.
Inflight Science. Icon Books. 2011.
Gravity: How the Weakest Force in the Universe Shaped Our Lives. St. Martin’s Press. 2012.
Introducing Infinity. Icon Books. 2012.
The Universe Inside You. Icon Books. 2012.
Exploring the Universe. Vivays Publishing. 2012.
How to Build a Time Machine. St. Martin’s Press. 2011. UK edition: Build Your Own Time Machine. Duckworth Publishing. 2012.
Extra Sensory. St. Martin’s Press. 2013.
Dice World: Science and Life in a Random Universe. Icon Books. 2013.
The Quantum Age. Icon Books. 2014.
Final Frontier: The Pioneering Science and Technology of Exploring the Universe. St. Martin’s Press. 2014.
Ten Billion Tomorrows. St Martin’s Press. 2015.
Science for Life. Icon Books. 2015.
Light Years. Piatkus. 2001. new edition: Light Years. Icon Books. 2015.
How Many Moons Does the Earth Have?. Icon Books. 2015.
Are Numbers Real? the Uncanny Relationship of Mathematics and the Physical World. St. Martin’s Press. 2017.
Gravitational Waves: How Einstein’s spacetime ripples reveal the secrets of the universe. Icon Books. 2018.
Professor Maxwell’s Duplicitous Demon: The Life and Science of James Clerk Maxwell. Icon Books. 2019.
Essential Science. Welbeck. 2020.
Ten Days in Physics that Shook the World: How Physicists Transformed Everyday Life. Icon Books. 2021.
How it All Works: All Scientific Laws and Phenomena Illustrated and Demonstrated. Ivy Press. 2021.
Interstellar Tours: A Guide to the Universe from Your Starship Window – 2023
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