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.

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