Description:
What Socrates Couldn't Know provides a comprehensive historic view on the foundations of contemporary technologies. Avoiding misleading metaphors and analogies, the text revisits mathematical and other abstract scientific concepts in an surprisingly easy-to-understand, but exact, manner.
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"The author has undertaken to teach a willing student ... all the mathematics and physics behind the complex technology of contemporary society, ranging from basic numbers to calculus, probability theory, relativity, quantum mechanics, and even string theory. ... the book is ... elegant. Summing Up: ... . General readers." (M. Schiff, Choice, Vol. 48 (6), February, 2011)