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- ↑ Seife, Charles (2000). Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea . New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 9780140296471.
- ↑ Seife, Charles (2010). Proofiness: How You're Being Fooled by the Numbers. New York: Penguin. ISBN 978-0-14-312007-0.
- ↑ Steven Strogatz, Fibbing With Numbers, The New York Times, 17 September 2010
- ↑ Seife, Charles (2008). Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking. ISBN 9780670020331.
- ↑ Seife, Charles (2015-08-04). Virtual Unreality: The New Era of Digital Deception. ISBN 9780143127673; pbk
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link) - ↑ Seife, Charles (2021). Hawking Hawking: The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity. Basic Books. ISBN 978-1-5416-1837-4.
