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A review by rafaela_borges
A Era da Incerteza by Tobias Hürter, Tobias Hürter
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.0
Maybe I should have paid more attention to the book description, because I was expecting something more. I thought it would involve more modern physicists and physics, but it went from Marie Curie to the Atomic Bomb, although there was no Oppenheimer or Fermi.
The book is about the origins of quantum physics, so it focus on Bohr, Heisenberg, De Broglie, Dirac, Pauli, Born, Planck, Einstein, Schrödinger, Ehrenfest and a few others. I had read a lot about it in other books and internet articles, so a lot of it wasn't new to me. I enjoyed knowing more about Pauli and Born, though, because they both seem very different from other physicists, in my opinion.
For those who don't know much about the subject, I'd definitely recommend this book. It flows really well, and the author explains difficult concepts in a way that doesn't make the book dry or tedious or overwhelming. It also contains stories and facts about the physicists' lives and, in my opinion, there was a good balance between that and the technical details. I wish there was a similar book about mathematics and mathematicians, to be honest.
The book is about the origins of quantum physics, so it focus on Bohr, Heisenberg, De Broglie, Dirac, Pauli, Born, Planck, Einstein, Schrödinger, Ehrenfest and a few others. I had read a lot about it in other books and internet articles, so a lot of it wasn't new to me. I enjoyed knowing more about Pauli and Born, though, because they both seem very different from other physicists, in my opinion.
For those who don't know much about the subject, I'd definitely recommend this book. It flows really well, and the author explains difficult concepts in a way that doesn't make the book dry or tedious or overwhelming. It also contains stories and facts about the physicists' lives and, in my opinion, there was a good balance between that and the technical details. I wish there was a similar book about mathematics and mathematicians, to be honest.