Introduction                                       6  (2)
  GENETICS                                         8  (138)
    The theory of evolution                        14 (4)
    The laws of inheritance                        18 (4)
    Genes and chromosomes                          22 (4)
    Sex                                            26 (4)
    Genes, proteins and DNA                        30 (4)
    The double helix                               34 (4)
    Cracking the code of life                      38 (4)
    Genetic engineering                            42 (4)
    The human genome                               46 (4)
    Lessons of the genome                          50 (4)
    Genetic determinism                            54 (4)
    Selfish genes                                  58 (4)
    Nature versus nurture                          62 (4)
    Genetic diseases                               66 (4)
    Gene hunting                                   70 (4)
    Cancer                                         74 (4)
    Behavioral genetics                            78 (4)
    Genetic history                                82 (4)
    Sex genes                                      86 (4)
    The battle of the sexes                        90 (4)
    Genetic fingerprinting                         94 (4)
    GM crops                                       98 (4)
    Evo-devo                                       102(4)
    Stem cells                                     106(4)
    Cloning                                        110(4)
    Gene therapy                                   114(4)
    Genetic testing                                118(4)
    Designer babies                                122(4)
    Junk DNA                                       126(4)
    Copy number variation                          130(4)
    Epigenetics                                    134(4)
    The RNA revolution                             138(4)
    Artificial life                                142(4)
  PHYSICS                                          146(142)
    Mach's principle                               152(4)
    Newton's laws of motion                        156(4)
    Kepler's laws                                  160(4)
    Newton's law of gravitation                    164(4)
    Conservation of energy                         168(4)
    Second law of thermodynamics                   172(4)
    Newton's theory of color                       176(4)
    Huygens' principle                             180(4)
    Bragg's law                                    184(4)
    Doppler effect                                 188(4)
    Ohm's law                                      192(4)
    Maxwell's equations                            196(4)
    Planck's law                                   200(4)
    Photoelectric effect                           204(4)
    Schrodinger's wave equation                    208(4)
    Heisenberg's uncertainty principle             212(4)
    Copenhagen interpretation                      216(4)
    Schrodinger's cat                              220(4)
    Rutherford's atom                              224(4)
    Antimatter                                     228(4)
    Nuclear fission                                232(4)
    Nuclear fusion                                 236(4)
    Standard model                                 240(4)
    Special relativity                             244(4)
    General relativity                             248(4)
    Black holes                                    252(4)
    Olbers' paradox                                256(4)
    Hubble's law                                   260(4)
    The Big Bang                                   264(4)
    Cosmic inflation                               268(4)
    Dark matter                                    272(4)
    Cosmological constant                          276(4)
    Fermi paradox                                  280(4)
    Anthropic principle                            284(4)
  MATHEMATICS                                      288(138)
    Pi                                             294(4)
    Euler's number                                 298(4)
    Infinity                                       302(4)
    Imaginary numbers                              306(4)
    Primes                                         310(4)
    Perfect Numbers                                314(4)
    Fibonacci numbers                              318(4)
    Golden rectangles                              322(4)
    Pascal's triangle                              326(4)
    Algebra                                        330(4)
    Logic                                          334(4)
    Proof                                          338(4)
    Sets                                           342(4)
    Calculus                                       346(4)
    Curves                                         350(4)
    Topology                                       354(4)
    Dimension                                      358(4)
    Fractals                                       362(4)
    Chaos                                          366(4)
    The parallel postulate                         370(4)
    Graphs                                         374(4)
    Probability                                    378(4)
    Distributions                                  382(4)
    The normal curve                               386(4)
    Connecting data                                390(4)
    Groups                                         394(4)
    Matrices                                       398(4)
    Codes                                          402(4)
    Latin squares                                  406(4)
    The diet problem                               410(4)
    Game theory                                    414(4)
    Fermat's last theorem                          418(4)
    The Riemann hypothesis                         422(4)
Glossary                                           426(3)
Index                                              429