比爾蓋茨告訴你：夏天該讀哪些書？
How Not to be Wrong, by Jordan Ellenberg
喬丹·艾倫伯格《如何避免錯誤》
Ellenberg, a mathematician and writer, explains how math plays into our daily lives without our even knowing it. Each chapter starts with a subject that seems fairly straightforward—electoral politics, say, or the Massachusetts lottery—and then uses it as a jumping-off point to talk about the math involved.
艾倫博格是名數學家，同時身爲作家，他向我們解釋了緣何數學潛移默化地在我們生活中發揮作用。每一章節的開頭都相當直接，如，從政治選舉說開去，然後盪開一筆談論其中的數學。
The book’s larger point is that, as Ellenberg writes, “to do mathematics is to be, at once, touched by fire and bound by reason”.
這本書的亮點在於，如同艾倫博格所寫道的，數學就是忽然觸及火焰，又爲理性所約束。
The Vital Question, by Nick Lane
尼克·雷恩《致命問題》
It’s not just theoretica. Nick is trying to right a scientific wrong by getting people to fully appreciate the role that energy plays in all living things. He argues that we can only understand how life began, and how living things got so complex, by understanding how energy works.
這本書不是僅僅關乎理論。尼克試圖更正一個科學誤區，讓人們充分認識到能量在一切有生命事物中扮演的角色。他主張，我們只有理解了能量是如何運作的才能理解生命的起源及生命是如何變複雜的過程。
The Power to Compete, by Ryoichi Mikitani and Hiroshi Mikitani
良一谷浩史和三木谷浩史合著《競爭的力量》
Why were Japan's companies—the juggernauts of the 1980s—eclipsed by competitors in South Korea and China? And can they come back? Those questions are at the heart of this series of dialogues between Ryoichi, an economist who died in 2013, and his son Hiroshi, founder of the Internet company Rakuten. The Power to Compete is a smart look at the future of a fascinating country.
緣何20世紀80年代叱吒風雲的日本公司，如今相較韓國和中國黯然失色了？日本還能迴歸嗎？這些問題是糾纏經濟學家良一於其子三木的問題；良一於2013年過世，三木是網絡公司日本樂天市場的創始人。《競爭的力量》以智慧的視角來看待這一神奇國家的未來。
Sapiens: A Brief history of Humankind, by Noah Yuval Harari.
哈拉瑞《智人：人類簡史》
Harari takes on a daunting challenge: to tell the entire history of the human race in just 400 pages. He also writes about our species today and how artificial intelligence, genetic engineering, and other technologies will change us in the future. I would recommend Sapiens to anyone who’s interested in the history and future of our species.
赫拉提擔起驚人的挑戰任務：用區區400頁講述整個人類史。他還寫了我們的如今的人類種族，還有人工智能、基因工程和其它科技是如何在未來改變我們的。我會向所有對人類歷史和未來感興趣的人推薦《智人》這本書的。
Seveneves, by Neal Stephenson
尼爾·史蒂芬森《Seveneves》
The plot gets going in the first sentence, when the moon blows up. People figure out that in two years a cataclysmic meteor shower will wipe out all life on Earth, so the world unites on a plan to keep humanity going by launching as many spacecraft as possible into orbit.
從第一句話開始就有故事，月亮爆炸了。人們預測，兩年後會有一場流星雨災難毀滅地球上一切生命。於是全世界聯合計劃維護人類，向宇宙軌道盡可能多發射飛船。
