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Idea Makers 豆瓣
作者: Stephen Wolfram Wolfram Media, Inc. 2016 - 7
摘自 Wolfram 本人blog
I spend most of my time trying to build the future with science and technology. But for many years now I’ve also had two other great interests: people and history. And today I’m excited to be publishing my first book that builds on these interests. It’s called Idea Makers, and its subtitle is Personal Perspectives on the Lives & Ideas of Some Notable People. It’s based on essays I’ve written over the past decade about a range of people—from ones I’ve personally known (like Richard Feynman and Steve Jobs) to ones who died long before I was born (like Ada Lovelace and Gottfried Leibniz).
The book is about lives and ideas, and how they mix together. At its core it’s a book of stories about people, and what those people managed to create. It’s the first book I’ve written that’s fundamentally non-technical—and I’m hoping all sorts of readers without deep technical interests will be able to enjoy it.
2020年4月22日 已读
怎么这样啊…好像科普书啊。我对Mathematica和数学都不是那么精深,很难觉得有意思,作者没有提前告知吧。读完后update:副标题其实很贴切啊,这本书就很personal的一个视角,时不时要提到自己的宝贝Methametica, A New Kind of Science, Rule 30;我对这些都不太了解,而且书里还时不时突然开始讲数学,我就懵逼了;逻辑学的内容这本书之前读到过一些,所以大概能懂一些;其它的就是读到后面确实有看到关于idea making重要的事情,也了解到一些八卦,这些部分就还挺好看的。
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