Charles Seife is an American author, journalist and professor.
His first published book was Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea. He had written within the scientific community for years before this, having done freelance work for New Scientist, Scientific American, The Economist, Science, Wired UK and The Sciences, among others.
Prior to his career in Journalism he received an undergraduate degree from Princeton University, an M.S. in mathematics from Yale University and a M.S. in journalism from Columbia University. Journalism at NYU - Faculty
He has written four books to date:
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea, Penguin Putnam, 2000. ISBN 0-670-88457-X
Alpha & Omega: The Search for the Beginning and End of the Universe
Decoding The Universe, 2007
Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking, 2008
He is currently an associate professor in New York University's Journalism Department.
He is a member of PEN, the National Association of Science Writers, and the D.C. Science Writers Association.
Seife is among a small number of people with a defined Erd?s—Bacon number, 7. Phys. Rev. Lett. 78 (1997): Enrico Simonotto, Massimo Riani, Charles Seife, Mark Roberts, Jennifer Twitty, and Frank Moss - Visual Perception of Stochastic MR: Matches for: MR=1713088 MR: Matches for: MR=942062