A cultural history of physics
by Károly Simonyi · first published 2010
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"A Cultural History of Physics" by Karoli Simonyi is a brilliant book on the history of Science and math from antiquity to recent past. Even though the title reads as history of physics, the book touches upon everything from Math to…
on “A Map of Mathematics” ↗Károly Simonyi: A Cultural History of Physics Mostly physics but pretty amazing.
on “Ask HN: Any recommendation for a good History of Science book?” ↗This year I revisited "A Cultural History of Physics" quite a tremendous book. It goes to the entire history of physics while parallelly highlighting cultural events with emphasis on how one influenced the other.
on “Ask HN: What's the best book you read in 2021?” ↗…perspective. A significant part of my work involves cleaning up structured and unstructured data. An example: More than ten years ago a friend of mine was fascinated by the german edition of the book "A Cultural History of Physics" by Károly Simonyi. He scanned the book (600+ pages) and created a PDF (nearly) same layout. Against my advice he used Adobe tools for it instead of creating an epub or something like DocBook. The PDF…
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