The Seven Secrets of How to Think Like a Rocket Scientist

Abstract

In this book, I have written several short chapters about each of the seven secrets of how to think like a rocket scientist. I illustrate the principles with anecdotes, quotations and biographical sketches of famous scientists, ideas from sci-fi , personal stories and insights, and occasionally a bit of space history. At the back of the book, I give, not the solutions to brain teasers, but instead a list of imagination builders: my list of the greatest science fi ction movies of the twentieth century. (The jury is still out on the twenty-first century.) I also provide a Recommended Reading and Bibliography list.