BOYLE, Biot, Beer and Bernoulli: these are just four of the scientists associated with eponymous laws whom Pickover has chosen to cover in this book. For each law, he breaks down the underlying scientific principles and explores the personality behind it, along with the social environments that spawned the likes of Hooke, Heisenberg and Ohm. But this dense and discursive book is more than a Who’s Who; it also discusses beautiful equations, the scientific conception of reality, and why there have been so few eponyms in science since 1900.
Archimedes to Hawking
Oxford University Press
