At once authoritative and accessible, and infused with the author's trademark wit, this deeply insightful book is a stunning tribute to humanity's intellectual curiosity.
Leonard Mlodinow is the best-selling author of The Drunkard's Walk, Subliminal and Elastic, as well as a theoretical physicist who taught at Caltech and was a fellow at The Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics. He co-authored two books with Stephen Hawking, A Briefer History of Time and The Grand Design, and later wrote an acclaimed memoir, Stephen Hawking, about their time together. There are over one million copies of Leonard Mlodinow's books in print.
The Upright Thinkers playfully tracks the evolution of man's
understanding of the world over millions of years. . . An
accessible and engaging read that brings science's brilliant minds
to life
*Financial Times*
Mlodinow never fails to make science both accessible and
entertaining
*Stephen Hawking, author of A Brief History of Time*
An entrancing tale of scientific history. . . Mlodinow provides
many cultural touchstones and tells personal stories, both poignant
and amusing, about his experiences as a theoretical physicist to
draw us even closer to the history
*Washington Post*
Mlodinow is an engaging narrator who leavens the proceedings with a
mischievous wit
*Wall Street Journal*
An audacious encapsulation of our species' trek from savannah to
city
*Nature*
Mlodinow vividly traces the revolutions in thought and culture that
define our civilization and, as a bonus, presents a stimulating
overview of the history and majestic sweep of modern science
*V. S. Ramachandran, author of The Tell-Tale Brain: A
Neuroscientist’s Quest for What Makes Us Human*
An enjoyable and readable introduction to the history of western
science, beginning with the first stone tools and ending in the era
of quantum physics. Mlodinow takes us on a tour of some of the high
points of scientific discovery from Egyptian and Mesopotamian
mathematics, to Pythagoras and Aristotle, to the classical era of
Galileo and Newton, and finally to the strange worlds of
Einsteinian relativity and the uncertainty principle, which taught
us how to study worlds beyond the reach of our everyday senses
*David Christian, co-author of Big History: Between Nothing and
Everything*
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