From one of the best writers on science, a remarkable portrait of Isaac Newton. The man who changed our understanding of the universe, of science, and of faith.

Winner of the Royal Society Winton Prize for Science Books 2012, the world's leading prize for popular science writing.

For nearly 50 years, until his death in 1988, Richard Feynman's work lay at the heart of the development of modern physics. Always controversial, Feynman was the key physicist from his days as part of the A-bomb-making team at Los Alamos in the early 1940s, until his discovery of the reason for the Challenger space shuttle disaster 40 years later. The book combines biography with an accessible account of his thought and its context.

This book brings together different work in the new field of physics called the chaos theory, an extension of classical mechanics, in which simple and complex causes are seen to interact. Mathematics may only be able to solve simple linear equations which experiment has pushed nature into obeying in a limited way, but now that computers can map the whole plane of solutions of non-linear equations a new vision of nature is revealed. The implications are staggeringly universal in all areas of scientific work and philosophical thought.

Informace je v určitém smyslu knihou o všem, co je páteří naší civilizace: o telekomunikaci, ochranných známkách, počítačích, genetice, spamu a memech, kompresi dat, kvantové mechanice i šifrách, slovnících, náhodě, entropii i řetězových dopisech. Zkušený autor kultovní knihy Chaos a řady dalších publikací uchopil téma „informace“ skutečně od základu – knihu otevírá půvabná kapitola o „dálkové řeči“ afrických bubeníků (komunikačnímu kanálu, jehož kapacitě se schopnosti naší civilizace vyrovnaly až ke konci 19. století) a v...