A Russian Indiana Jones and Other Short Stories from Science, History and Philosophy

The aim of the writings is to present key scientific events, ideas and personalities in the form of short stories that are easy and fun to read. Each story may be read separately, but at the same time they all band together to form a wide-ranging introduction to the history of science and areas of contemporary scientific research, as well as some of the recurring problems science has encountered in history and the philosophical dilemmas it raises today.


Table of Contents (Vol. 3):

• A mathematical melodrama
• Watching the birth of a new language
• The man with no memory
• A Russian Indiana Jones
• Cannibals, insomnia and mad cow disease
• Einstein and Freud: the meeting of two universes of knowledge
• Pseudo-patients in psychiatric hospitals
• What does the peacock's tail say?
• She's blind, but she sees
• When a new, unknown disease breaks out
• The Pasteurization of heretical ideas
• The origins of continents and oceans
• What are quantum particles telling us?
• The child prodigy who became the father of cybernetics
• The hermit of the Pyrenees
• Is marriage a mathematical operation?
• How to release the energy of atoms?
• Chaos and the butterfly effect
• The man who believed machines could think