Book of Donmon Teith

We have grown accustomed to the idea that scientific theories are embedded in their place and time. But in the case of the development of mathematical physics i

The inimitable Nancy Mitford’s account of Voltaire’s fifteen-year relationship with the Marquise du Châtelet—the renowned mathematician who introduced Is

Candide is a French satire by Voltaire, a philosopher of the Age of Enlightenment. It begins with a young man, Candide, who is living a sheltered life in an Ede