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‘[Landsberg]...offers us his vision of a great spectrum of topics, rang-ing from fundamental particles to models of the universe, from theperiodic table to the origins of life, from the global energy supply toGödel’s theorem. We go on a...ride starting with thermodynamics(...mass, perpetual motion), moving on to...elements, particles, for-ces...continuing to time and entropy...(self-organization,...chaosand...the origins of life), and quantum theory (waves and particles,wave functions and probabilities, quantum gravity, nonlocality,Schrödinger’s cat...), arriving finally at cosmology (...black holes,...physical constants, the anthropic principle), mathematics (...com-plexity), and even religion. Landsberg treats all of this and more inhis inimitable style: terse, concise, and to the point, but chock full of insights and humor.’‘This book is not only illuminating but also entertaining. It is embel-lished throughout by illustrations,...examples of correspondence be-tween scientists, and anecdotes.... Each chapter is given ahero...Pascal, Rumford, Mendeleev, Boltzmann, Darwin, Planck,Einstein, Eddington. These serve...to show how important a love of science for its own sake is to genuine progress in understanding.’‘I heartily recommend this book.... If you have not been waiting forthis book, you should have been, and if you have not read it yet, youshould.’
 American Journal of Physics
October 2000
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