Description
Sir Isaac Newton, creator of the first and perhaps most important scientific theory, is a giant of the scientific era. Despite this, he has remained inaccessible to most modern readers, indisputably great but undeniably remote.
In this witty, engaging, and often moving examination of Newton's life, David Berlinski recovers the man behind the mathematical breakthroughs. The story carries the reader from Newton's unremarkable childhood to his awkward undergraduate days at Cambridge through the astonishing year in which, working alone, he laid the foundation for his system of the world, his Principia Mathematica, and to the subsequent monumental feuds that poisoned his soul and wearied his supporters.
An edifying appreciation of Newton's greatest accomplishment, Newton's Gift is also a touching celebration of a transcendent man
Author: David Berlinski
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 03/05/2002
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 5.50h x 8.40w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780743217767
ISBN10: 0743217764
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology
- Science | History
- Mathematics | History & Philosophy
In this witty, engaging, and often moving examination of Newton's life, David Berlinski recovers the man behind the mathematical breakthroughs. The story carries the reader from Newton's unremarkable childhood to his awkward undergraduate days at Cambridge through the astonishing year in which, working alone, he laid the foundation for his system of the world, his Principia Mathematica, and to the subsequent monumental feuds that poisoned his soul and wearied his supporters.
An edifying appreciation of Newton's greatest accomplishment, Newton's Gift is also a touching celebration of a transcendent man
Author: David Berlinski
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 03/05/2002
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 5.50h x 8.40w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9780743217767
ISBN10: 0743217764
BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Science & Technology
- Science | History
- Mathematics | History & Philosophy
About the Author
David Berlinski is an essayist, philosopher, and mathematician. He holds a Ph.D. from Princeton and has spent many years in various academic positions across America and abroad. He is the author of A Tour of the Calculus and The Advent of the Algorithm. He lives in Paris.