Books by Amir D. Aczel
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English
review 1: This book was a bit odd in a way: very uneven in quality. Some were excellent descriptions of the science involved and why the LHC is so important. Other parts were simply gossip such as recounting how a physicist had an arranged marriage back in Africa or maybe India, I forget w...
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English
review 1: After reading most of Aczel's oeuvre, this book a great excerpt of his longer books on specific aspects of math history. Each chapter covers a short time period and the stories behind the major figures in mathematics are well fleshed out compared to their novel-length treatments....