Professor Shih Choon Fong, MS, PhD (Harvard) ... should appeal to the young from pre-teen to pre-university, in addition to grown-ups with an interest in mathematics.
Professor Cham Tao Soon, BE, BSc, PhD (Cambridge) I find his book really fascinating.
Those first impressions as the gorgeous East with all its countless
sounds and colours forms and odours burst upon us; mingled pleasures
and disgusts all new undreamed-of or our wildest dreams enhanced!
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From earliest times money in some form or another has been central to organized living. Increasingly it shapes foreign and economic policies of all governments. It is synonymous with power and it shapes history in every generation.
From an historical perspective, this text presents an entirely non- mathematical introduction to astronomy from the first endeavours of the ancients to the current developments in research enabled by cutting edge technological advances. Free of mathematics and complex graphs, the book nevertheless explains deep concepts of space and time, of relativity and quantum mechanics, and of origin and nature of the universe. It conveys not only the intrinsic fascination of the subject, but also the human side and the scientific method as practised by Kepler, defined and elucidated by Galileo, and then demonstrated by Newton.
