LITTLE BOOK OF BIG IDEAS - SCIENCE

Spanning four thousand years of civilisation, the Little Book of Big Ideas: Science gives you the stories behind the brilliance, brainstorming, setbacks, and formulae from cosmology and mathematics, physics and chemistry, and tells you why they are of central importance in your life. How we came to understand Quantum Theory, electromagnetism, relativity and thermodynamics, the formulae for the structure of the atom, the Periodic Table, the laws of gases and absolute zero, the equation for pi, for the Big Bang, and for the structure of the Milky Way, and much more...