Cosmos vs The Formula: Which Should You Read?
Both live on shelves: Popular works, History
Cosmos
This book is about science in its broadest human context, how science and civilization grew up together. It is the story of our long journey of discovery and the forces and individuals who helped to shape modern…
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The Formula
In The Formula, Luke Dormehl takes readers inside the world of numbers, asking how we came to believe in the all-conquering power of algorithms; introducing the mathematicians, artificial intelligence experts and…
The verdict
- Readers rate Cosmos highest: Cosmos 4.4 · The Formula 3.7.
- Cosmos has the widest readership — 163219 ratings behind its score.
- Cosmos runs the darker storyline; The Formula stays the lighter read.
How to choose
Scores by source
| Cosmos | The Formula | |
|---|---|---|
| Goodreads | 4.4 (163219) | — |
| Hardcover | 3.5 (2) | 3.2 (5) |
| Google Books | 5.0 (1) | — |
| Apple Books | 4.5 (290) | — |
Reception
| Cosmos | The Formula | |
|---|---|---|
| Ratings | 163219 | 5 |
| Editions | 74 | 6 |
| Film adaptations | 1 | — |
| Want to read | 275575 | — |
| Reading it now | 12732 | — |
| Written reviews | 5493 | — |
| Wikipedia attention | 4647 | 36 |
| Pages | 227 | 296 |