NYU Journalism

Before joining the Department of Journalism, Charles Seife was writer for Science magazine -specializing in physics and mathematics- and had been a U.S. correspondent for New Scientist. He holds an A.B. in mathematics from Princeton University, an M.S. in mathematics from Yale University, and an M.S. in journalism from Columbia University. His research interests include science and mathematics journalism.

Seife’s freelance work has appeared in The Economist, Scientific American, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Washington Post, The New York Times and other publications. He is also the author of Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea (2000), which won the 2000 PEN/Martha Albrand Award for First Nonfiction, as well as Alpha & Omega: The Search for the Beginning and End of the Universe (2003), Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, From Our Brains to Black Holes (2005), Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking (2008), and the forthcoming Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception (2010).

Published Works

Spies in the Skies April 6th, 2016 Charles Seife Professor An Open Letter to My Former NSA Colleagues August 22nd, 2013 Charles Seife Professor FDA Let Drugs Approved on Fraudulent Research Stay on the Market April 15th, 2013 Charles Seife Professor How Drug Company Money Is Undermining Science November 21st, 2012 Charles Seife Professor Jonah Lehrer’s Journalistic Misdeeds at Wired.com August 31st, 2012 Charles Seife Professor Proofiness: The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception November 23rd, 2010 Charles Seife Professor Between Fact and Fantasy: Polling and the Media July 7th, 2010 Charles Seife Professor Not Every Vote Counts December 4th, 2008 Charles Seife Professor Sun in a Bottle October 30th, 2008 Charles Seife Professor Decoding the Universe February 4th, 2006 Charles Seife Professor