Customer Review: Nutshell review - This is a really great book - one of my favourites. Mlodinow writes an intelligent and elegant book on how random events in our lives play a much larger role than what we usually give credit to. Random events account for more than our innate ability and skills and we should be... more info
Customer Review: Nutshell review - This is a really great book - one of my favourites. Mlodinow writes an intelligent and elegant book on how random events in our lives play a much larger role than what we usually give credit to. Random events account for more than our innate ability and skills and we should be... more info
Customer Review: While this book is shorter and more entertaining than its not-as-brief predecessor, I found it still unable to make the very esoteric subjects of space-time curvature, quantum mechanics and the behavior of sub-atomic particles understandable to me (MS Computer Science). Hawking clearly has a great... more info
Customer Review: Caltech is the home of some of the best minds in physics. Most notable physicists on its faculty included Richard Feynman and Murray Gell-Mann; both are Nobel laureates. The author narrates in simple words his casual interactions with Richard Feynman when he (author) was a freshman-faculty member at... more info
Customer Review: "The book of nature is written in mathematics." Galileo If writing around 1632 Galileo was right that the book of nature is written mathematics then Leonard Mlodinow's book is a kind of Cliff's Notes version. Mlodinow is a highly experienced writer who collaborated with Oxford's Stephen... more info
Customer Review: This small book works on many levels. On the one hand it is the story of a young scientist, Leonard Mlodinow and his effort to understand his place and direction in Physics. In another it is the picture of one of the world's great Physics Departments, Cal Tech at the time Murry Gell-Mann, and... more info
Customer Review: My son is a very reluctant reader and struggles with it. There are many times he starts a chapter book and loses interest in it. The chapters in this book were very short. My son started reading it and couldn't put it down! This never happens with a book. He NEVER reads without a prompt from me and... more info
