Surendra Verma
ASIN: B00BKI46HE
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 225
NEW EDITION March 2014Just how the scientific discoveries that have changed our world come about? ‘Beginnings, Blunders and Breakthroughs in Science’ investigates the eureka moments, the serendipities and the plain errors that have peppered the science’s last 2,500 years.Overflowing with wit, insight and information, the book offers chronological account that takes us from ancient Egypt and the earliest reference to ‘pi’ to the twenty-first century and the discovery that ended the search for the elusive God particle.In 191 short, sharp and simple stories you’ll learn, with surprise and delight:– How anaesthesia was discovered at a party– Who, in the sixth century BC claimed that the earth is round– Why the Riemann hypothesis remains mathematics’ greatest unsolved problem– Who announced that because Great Britain had ‘plenty of messenger boys’, it had no need for the telephone– How ...