欧几里得之窗
Euclid's Window
Leonard Mlodinow · 初版 2001 年
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物理学家兼作家 Mlodinow 带我们踏上穿越几何学五次革命的旅程，从古希腊的平行线概念一直延伸到高维空间的最新理念。这是一部另辟蹊径的全新数学史，揭示了任何人都可以提出的关于空间的简单问题，如何成为推动科技取得最高成就的隐藏引擎。这场旅程从毕达哥拉斯启程，跨越高斯与爱因斯坦，步入一场全新的革命——在这场革命中，科学家们意识到自然界所有奇妙多样的力量都可以通过几何学来理解，即一种包含额外……的奇异全新几何学。
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……书。这可能是我最喜欢的朗读版本之一（我现在已经听了120多本有声书了）。布莱森把标杆设得相当高。然后我听了伦纳德·姆洛迪诺的《思维简史》（The Upright Thinkers）；我的天啊。姆洛迪诺的《欧几里得之窗》（Euclid's Window）简直棒极了，朗读者是声音略带傲慢但又很贴合的罗伯特·布鲁门菲尔德（Robert Blumenfield）。伦纳德的声音有点慢条斯理、拖长声调，而且他经常在……卡壳
…book. It's probably one of my favorite narrations (I've got over 120 audiobooks under my belt now). Bryson set the bar pretty high. Then I listened to Leonard Mlodinow's "The Upright Thinkers"; Oh god. Euclid's Window by Mlodinow was absolutely fantastic, and it was narrated by the slightly pompous-sounding -- but fitting -- Robert Blumenfield. Leonard had a somewhat slow, drawling voice, and he often stumbled over…
作为一个7岁孩子的父亲（肚子里还有一个马上出生了 :) ），我觉得下面这些书极好。它们能激发我的好奇与惊叹，希望我也能把这些传递给孩子们。1. 《欧几里得之窗》 2. 《素数的音乐》
As a dad to a 7 year old (and another one on the way :)) , I find the following books wonderful. They evoke wonder in me and hopefully I will be able to transmit some of this to the kids . 1. Euclid's Window 2. Music of the primes
……为产品做决策。《信息简史》（The Information），作者詹姆斯·格雷克（James Gleick）。要记住，早在欧洲拥有可靠的时钟之前，非洲就已经有了远距离、分布式、容错的无线通信网络了。姆洛迪诺的《欧几里得之窗》。整个历史的弧线化作一条大曲率的走势，最终导向了机器学习。读多克·史密斯的《透镜人》（Lensman）系列（尤其是按时间顺序的前两部）帮我认识到了……
…making decisions for a product. The Information by James Gleick. Remember, Africa has had long range, distributed, fault tolerant wireless communication networks since before Europe had reliable clocks. Euclid's Window by Mlodonow. The entire arc of history in a sweeping curve towards, ultimately, machine learning. Reading Doc Smith's lensmen series (particularly the chronologically first 2) helped me recognize how…
……以下是此时此刻我脑海中浮现的一些（跨不同领域的）书：金融/统计：《黑天鹅》，纳西姆·尼古拉斯·塔勒布著；《醉汉的脚步》，伦纳德·姆洛迪诺著。数学/科学史：《欧几里得之窗》，伦纳德·姆洛迪诺著；《万物简史》，比尔·布莱森著。物理：《普通读者的牛顿自然哲学的数学原理》，S·钱德拉塞卡著。文学：《卡拉马佐夫兄弟》，费奥多尔·陀思妥耶夫斯基著；《……
…here's some (across different genres) that are in my memory at this moment: Finance/statistics : The Black Swan by Nicholas Nassim Taleb The Drunkards Walk by Leonard Mlodinow Math/science history : Euclid's Window by Leonard Mlodinow A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson Physics: Newton's Principia for the Common Reader by S. Chandrasekhar Lit: The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky House…
……喜欢那些读起来几乎像小说一样、能让人真正领会数学“背后原因”的书，所以这些书更多是为了丰富你对“意义何在”这类问题的宏观理解——像《欧几里得之窗》就会浮现在脑海中，还有《虚数的故事：负一的平方根》会比你平时关心的还要详细地解释复数。阅读数学史以及……的著作
…like books that read almost like novels to really grasp the "why" of mathematics, so these are more to embellish your general understanding of "what is the point" type questions -- so things here like Euclid's Window come to mind, and "An Imaginary Tale: The story of square root minus one" will help explain complex numbers in more detail than you ever cared. Reading about the history of mathematics and the writings…