Robert P. Crease

About the Author

The Great Equations

Books

Columns & Articles

The Great Equations
“Wry, probing, philosophically inclined, this book takes readers on a tour through ten great equations – ten of the most important victories in our long struggle to understand the world we live in.” 
Charles C. Mann
    


The Prism and the Pendulum
“Each chapter has its own special feel and delectations, and all of them bring out that beauty, for scientists, is no less important than truth, and that one can be ravished by an experiment no less than by a work of art.” 
Oliver Sacks
 


The Second Creation
"An absolutely marvelous book.
No one who cares about science should miss reading it."  
Timothy Ferris

"Without qualification, this is the best account of the phenomenal story of physics in the twentieth century."  Dick Teresi




The Philosophy of Expertise
"A first-rate collection...Their anthology will justifiably become
the reference of choice for those interested in expertise."  
Ben Almassi, Ethics

J. Robert Oppenheimer: A Life, by Abraham Pais with Robert P. Crease.
“The final chapters…written by Crease are such…that one wishes he’d produced a biography of his own.” 
Publishers Weekly
 




Making Physics
“A very readable, well illustrated, and sometimes even racy recounting of Brookhaven’s history, politics, and personalities… The book is often surprisingly forthright, without sparing any blushes." 
Denys Wilkinson




What Things Do,

by Peter-Paul Verbeek, translated by Robert P. Crease.
"This is really a good book. The goal is
to advance our philosophical
and cultural understanding of artifacts or material culture."  
Carl Mitcham



Peace & War, by Robert Serber with Robert P. Crease.
 “You can hardly know American physics in W. W. II or the Cold War, nor its hopes and burdens right into the present, without weighing what Bob Serber says.” 
Phillip Morrison, MIT