During the holiday break, I read Stephen Hawking’s The Theory of Everything. Reading this book was excruciatingly agonising. If not for the awesome Christmas dinner my friends Marilena and Kostas cooked for our big group of Greek friends, and the wonderful Yorkshire Bettys tea and Christmas cake supplied, along with plates, teacups, classical music and … Continue reading The Theory of Everything
Category: General Science
How To Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
My book of this week is How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method by eminent mathematician George Polya. Polya was one of the most influential mathematicians of the 20th century. O'Connor and E F Robertson wrote a short biography of Polya, giving us a glimpse of this extraordinary scientist and teacher. In … Continue reading How To Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins mentioned his concern about people’s misjudgement of the book because of its title. Unfortunately, I was one such plonker. This book sat on my bookshelf for many years. I did not want to touch it because I shallowly inferred from the title that the book is about finding justification in biology for selfishness … Continue reading The Selfish Gene