William Poundstone Explained
William Poundstone is an American author, columnist, and skeptic. He has written a number of books including the Big Secrets series and a biography of Carl Sagan.
Early life and education
Poundstone attended MIT and studied physics.[1]
Personal life
An enthusiastic fan of the fiction author Harry Stephen Keeler, Poundstone maintains the Keeler homepage and contributed to the anthology A to Izzard: A Harry Stephen Keeler Companion (2002).
He is a cousin of comedian Paula Poundstone.[2]
Bibliography
- Book: Big Secrets: The Uncensored Truth About All Sorts of Stuff You Are Never Supposed to Know. 1983.
- Book: The Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge. 1984. 978-0809252022. Poundstone . William . Contemporary Books .
- Book: Bigger Secrets: More Than 125 Things They Prayed You'd Never Find Out. 1986.
- Book: Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Frailty of Knowledge. 1988.
- Book: The Ultimate: The Great Armchair Debates Settled Once and for All. 1990.
- Book: Prisoner's Dilemma: John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb. 1992. 978-0385415804. Poundstone . William . Knopf Doubleday Publishing .
- Book: Biggest Secrets: More Uncensored Truth About All Sorts of Stuff You Are Never Supposed to Know. 1993.
- Book: Carl Sagan: A Life in the Cosmos. 1999.
- Book: The Big Book of Big Secrets. 2001. reprints Big Secrets and Biggest Secrets
- Book: How Would You Move Mount Fuji? : Microsoft's Cult of the PuzzleHow the World's Smartest Companies Select the Most Creative Thinkers. 2003.
- Book: Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street. 2005. 978-0809045990. Poundstone . William . Macmillan .
- Book: Gaming the Vote: Why Elections Aren't Fair (and What We Can Do About It). registration. Hill & Wang. 2008. 978-0809048922.
- Book: Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It). 2010.
- Book: Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?. 2011.
- Book: Rock Breaks Scissors: A Practical Guide to Outguessing and Outwitting Almost Everybody. 2014. 978-0316228060. registration. Poundstone . William . Little, Brown .
- Book: Head in the Cloud: Why Knowing Things Still Matters When Facts Are So Easy to Look Up. 2016. 978-0316256544. Poundstone . William . Little, Brown .
- Book: The Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation that Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe. 2019. 978-0316423922. Released as How to Predict Everything in the UK[3] Description & arrow/scrollable preview. Also summarized in Poundstone's essay, "Math Says Humanity May Have Just 760 Years Left," Wall Street Journal, updated June 27, 2019. Retrieved 22 September 2020.
- Book: Poundstone . William . How Do You Fight a Horse-Sized Duck?: Secrets to Succeeding at Interview Mind Games and Getting the Job You Want . 2021 . Little, Brown Spark . New York . 978-0316494540 .
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: November 2012 . Once a physicist: William Poundstone . https://web.archive.org/web/20190427152822/http://www.iop.org/careers/working-life/profiles/page_58873.html . 2019-04-27 . Institute of Physics.
- Web site: About Me – William Poundstone. 20 October 2019 .
- News: Smith . Nick . Book review: 'How to Predict Everything' by William Poundstone . 16 July 2019 . . . 4 June 2019.
