From one of the most exciting novelists writing in France today comes this literary saga of a dozen men and women – engineers, designers, machinery operators, cable riggers – all employees of the international consortium charged with building a bridge somewhere in a mythical and fantastic California. Told on a sweeping scale reminiscent of classic American adventure films, this...(展开全部)

Landmark analysis of authority written in Nazi-occupied France In The Notion of Authority, written in the 1940s in Nazi-occupied France, Alexandre Kojève uncovers the conceptual premises of four primary models of authority, examining the practical application of their derivative variations from the Enlightenment to Vichy France. This foundational text, translated here into Engl...(展开全部)

Landmark analysis of authority written in Nazi-occupied France In The Notion of Authority, written in the 1940s in Nazi-occupied France, Alexandre Kojève uncovers the conceptual premises of four primary models of authority, examining the practical application of their derivative variations from the Enlightenment to Vichy France. This foundational text, translated here into Engl...(展开全部)

What goes on inside the mind of a rock-star mathematician? Where does inspiration come from? With a storyteller’s gift, Cédric Villani takes us on a mesmerising journey as he wrestles with a new theorem that will win him the most coveted prize in mathematics. Along the way he encounters obstacles and setbacks, losses of faith and even brushes with madness. His story is one of c...(展开全部)

塞德里克·维拉尼（Cédric Villani） 法国数学家，现任法国庞加莱研究所所长，法兰西科学院院士，在数理物理学（朗道阻尼和玻尔兹曼方程）、最优输运理论和黎曼几何领域做出了重大贡献。2009年获得费马奖，2010年获得菲尔茨奖章。

塞德里克·维拉尼（Cédric Villani） 法国数学家，现任法国庞加莱研究所所长，法兰西科学院院士，在数理物理学（朗道阻尼和玻尔兹曼方程）、最优输运理论和黎曼几何领域做出了重大贡献。2009年获得费马奖，2010年获得菲尔茨奖章。

What goes on inside the mind of a rock-star mathematician? Where does inspiration come from? With a storyteller’s gift, Cédric Villani takes us on a mesmerising journey as he wrestles with a new theorem that will win him the most coveted prize in mathematics. Along the way he encounters obstacles and setbacks, losses of faith and even brushes with madness. His story is one of c...(展开全部)

These are notions so basic to our view of life that we take them for granted. But in the seventeenth century they were revolutionary, heretical, even dangerous to the men who formed them. Culture, religion, and science had intertwined over the centuries to create a world view based on a stationary earth. Indeed, if the earth moved, would not birds be blown off the trees and wou...(展开全部)