For generations of scientists and enthusiasts, The Feynman Lectures on Physics—the iconic “red books”—represent a unique, often debated, approach to learning the laws of nature. More than just a textbook, this three-volume set is a direct transcription of the legendary… Read More ›
“Step-by-step, year-by-year, the world is improving. Not on every single measure every single year, but as a rule. Though the world faces huge challenges, we have made tremendous progress. This is the fact-based worldview.”
FOR MORE THAN 2,500 years, mathematicians have been obsessed with solving for x. The story of their struggle to find the roots —the solutions—of
increasingly complicated equations is one of the great epics in the history of human thought.
