bookshelves: autumn-2015, nonfiction, nonfic-nov-2015, sciences, history-of-science, published-2013, tbr-busting-2015, under-1000-ratings, too-loud-man Read from September 09, 2013 to November 23, 2015 Description: Drawing on the lives of five renowned scientists, Mario Livio shows how even the...
This book is really "Brilliant Blunderers", or, in a less catchy but more accurate phrase, "Smart People sometimes make stupid mistakes". Which is not exactly news. But it does make the greats of science seem more human.I felt during the whole book that the author was really reaching for his thesi...
A fascinating, carefully researched book in which Livio debunks myths, superstitions, lazy theories and stereotypes about the so-called ratio of beauty, and reveals far more interesting and unexpected appearances of phi.
The author writes in a straightforward manner and explains the science in a highly entertaining manner. If I ever sit next to somebody in a waffle house who starts talking about his life stories, I can easily pivot into one of the five stories splendidly presented in this book. The writer was that g...
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