Books like The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy & Mathematics from Albert Einstein to Stephen W. Hawking & from Annie Dillard to John U

This book delivers a nice collection of short works by some of the most eminent physicists, astronomers and mathematicians of recent times. Some essays (particularly in the astronomy/cosmology part) are necessarily a bit dated (given that the book was published in the early 90's, even before the so-called "dark energy" was "discovered") but even in this area there are brilliant, short articles written by Hawking, Sagan, and Penrose.In the area of mathematics, there are beautiful essays by Alfred Adler (about the nature of mathematics), Mandelbrot (about fractals) and James Gleick (about Chaos Theory).There is also a very interesting section dealing with philosophy of mathematics, where the reader can find articles of historical importance written by Wigner (about the "unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in natural sciences") and J.D.Barrow ("what is mathematics?)". There is an article discussing the life a very enigmatic mathematician, who represents the raw power of mathematical genius in its purest, intuitive manifestation: Ramanujan (whose raw talent has been ranked with that of giants such as Gauss and Euler). There are also absolutely brilliant essays in the area of philosophy of science by some of the foremost representatives in this fascinating subject matter: Thomas Kuhn and Karl Popper.After that, worth mentioning is a completely fascinating and memorable article by Heisenberg, recounting one of his many discussions with 2 other intellectual giants like him (Wolfgang Pauli and Niels Bohr). And finally, a really interesting article by Einstein about the relationship between science and religion. In summary, this is a popular science book (so there is no much of actual detailed scientific content - and there are a few articles that are dated or of no much interest, and there is virtually no maths), but I must say that, overall, this book was a very enjoyable read for me - and I found some of the essays really interesting, a few of them even memorable.