Is time travel possible? What are the Möbius strip, tesseract, or transcendental number? Why is an entire historical period named after a simple alloy – the Bronze Age? These questions are just a taste of the immense wealth of topics in the natural sciences brought to us by the illustrated book of the experienced author of many popular science books, Clifford A. Pickover. It presents 250 of the greatest discoveries in the natural sciences, technology, and the humanities that have allowed modern human society to emerge and thrive. The spectrum of the Book of Science is broad, covering topics from highly theoretical to completely practical, from solutions we know from everyday life to hypothetical constructs whose significance is yet to be revealed. It spans from a 20,000-year-old bone from Ishango to the latest results in mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, technology, and psychology from the early 21st century.
