Not the best of the five volumes of the Incerto but definitely worth rereading, especially the first half.
After hearing so many good things about this book I gave it a try, and couldn't be more disappointed. This book is poorly written, poorly edited and lacks care and passion for the subject. Had this been my first interaction with physics, I wouldn't have studied it. It is a very, very poor shadow of The Feynman Lectures. Sure, it is shorter, but much shallower than shorter. Don't fool yourself and go for the real thing (Feynman and then Landau). Or, for a recent and great introduction, Classical Mechanics with Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control by Mark Levi.
Amazing short story about parallel universes. It explores really interesting consequences of being able to talk with your parallel self. For example, being able to collaborate with your paraselves as a team, or know yourself statistically from a sample. A really good read.
I have greatly enjoyed rereading this masterpiece of thought. One of the best books I have ever read.
A fascinating topic, but an awful book. Weyl may have been a great mathematician and physicist, but here it shows his awful writing abilities. The topic of symmetry is really interesting, as revealed in the marvelous 'The symmetries of things', by Conway, Burgiel and Goodman-Strauss (one of my favourite books by far). A good thing of this book, though, is the collection of examples from art and architecture.
De nuevo un texto magnífico de Tusquets. Me encanta su tesis principal. ¿Qué es eso de que no se pueden comparar peras con limones? ¡Pero si ambas son frutas, ambas crecen en un árbol, y hay muchas más cosas en común! El libro tiene momentos magníficos. En particular, es el libro que contiene el germen de su Requiem por la Escalera, aquí en forma de responso. Su crítica a algunos deportes es brillante.
Pretendiendo ser superficial, acaba siendo profundo. Un delicioso libro con el que aprendes, piensas, te indignas y te ríes. No se puede pedir mucho más. Me he enganchado a este autor, y ya he sacado de la biblioteca su "Todo es comparable". Con su Requiem por la escalera me abrió los ojos a las que son mi elemento arquitectónico favorito. En este libro consigue algo parecido con las ventanas. Como bonus, me enseña la palabra "bailarina" para un compás que, según encuentro en un buscador, sirve para trazar circunferencias muy pequeñas.
Oscar Tusquets siempre te hace pensar y sonreír, y además le encanta provocar. En este libro vuelve a conseguir las tres cosas.