Tony Rothman's first book, written just after graduating college, was
The World is Round (Ballantine, 1978), a science fiction novel about the evolution of society on a planet with a rather uncommon feature. His experiences in Russia resulted in publication of a collection of short stories entitled
Censored Tales (1989). He has also published six books of popular science and science history. His collection
A Physicist on Madison Avenue (1991) was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize, while
Doubt and Certainty, with George Sudarshan, was chosen by the A-List as one of the 200 best books of 1998. He co-authored
Sacred Mathematics: Japanese Temple Geometry with Fukagawa Hidetoshi. This was the first history of sangaku in English, was published during 2008 and won the Association of American Publisher's 2008 PROSE award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence in mathematics.
Rothman's published writings encompass hundreds of works in 7 languages and include 3,073 library holdings.
- 2008 — Sacred mathematics: Japanese temple geometry (with Hidetoshi Fukagawa)
- 2003 — Everything's relative: and other fables from science and technology
- 1998 — Doubt and certainty: the celebrated academy
- 1995 — Instant physics: from Aristotle to Einstein, and beyond
- 1991 — A physicist on Madison Avenue
- 1989 — Science à la mode: physical fashions and fictions
- 1989 — Censored tales
- 1985 — Frontiers of modern physics: new perspectives on cosmology, relativity, black holes, and extraterrestrial intelligence
- 1978 — The world is round