by Leonard Mlodinow · Penguin Books · tapa dura · ISBN 9780141980997
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«The Upright Thinkers» is Leonard Mlodinow's popular science essay, published by Penguin Books in hardback (352 pages, in English).
A journey through the history of science, from the first ancestors who stood upright to quantum physics. Mlodinow explains how brain evolution and simple questions drove knowledge, and portrays thinkers such as Galileo, Newton, Darwin, Einstein or Lavoisier in a reflection on human curiosity and progress.
First edition published on 7 May 2015.
Suitable for readers interested in popular science, the history of ideas and the development of human knowledge.
Leonard Mlodinow is an American theoretical physicist and mathematician, screenwriter and author. In physics, he is known for his work on the large N expansion, a method of approximating the spectrum of atoms based on the consideration of an infinite-dimensional version of the problem, and for his work on the quantum theory of light inside dielectrics.
