Beautifully and passionately written!
A very entertaining account of the development of the famous equation, with each symbol treated as a 'person' whose biography is present in the book. Surely there are many other books which look more closely at the physics; take this one if you don't wish to stress your brain.
Bodanis comes off as a good historian; apart from facts and anecdotes he tries to peer into the heads of the individuals and give a glimpse of why they were able to exceed their c...

I was urged to read the book after watching the BBC documentary with the same title. Bodanis does a brilliant job with the book. The approach itself is novel, with Bodanis looking into the history of each of the components that go into the making of this world-famous and over-talked about equation. Starting back in the 17th century, he painstakingly shows how science is not at all ahistorical or acultural at all, but is mired in contemporary politics, dominant political ideologies of the time...

Great book

Nice book...