Перевод с английского, совсем новая книга (оригинал — 2009). Биография нескольких французских и русских математиков конца XIX — начала XX века; и история об отношениях математики и религиозного мистицизма. «Центральный сюжет этой книги — соревнование французских и русских математиков, искавших новый ответ на один из старейших вопросов математики — на вопрос о природе бесконечности. Французская школа шла по пути рационалистических решений. Российские же ученые, в частности Дмитрий Егоров и Николай Лузин — основатели знаменитой московской математической школы — руководствовались совсем иными идеями. Они вдохновлялись религиозными прозрениями имяславия — мистического православного движения, заключающегося в особом почитании имени божьего и оформившегося первоначального в среде русских монахов на Афоне. После выдворения имяславцев с Афона в 1913 году они оказались рассеяны по всей России, само же учение, однако, сохранило существенное влияние в среде интеллектуалов. Именно эта религиозная практика и послужила толчком для одного из крупнейших прорывов в математике, позволив русским ученым заглянуть в бесконечное и открыть дескриптивную теорию множеств». - Афиша
Издательство Европейского университета в Санкт-Петербурге, 2011
29 июл. 2011 г.
Mao’s Great Famine by Frank Dikötter
Otto von Bismarck 'made' Germany but never 'ruled' it. He was a political genius who remade Europe and united Germany between 1862 and 1890 by the sheer power of his great personality and for twenty eight years he acted as a prime minister but without a party.
This biography takes the reader into close proximity with a human being of almost superhuman abilities and one of the most interesting human beings who ever lived. It uses the diaries and letters of his contemporaries to explore a man who never said a dull thing or wrote a slack sentence. We see him through the eyes of his secretaries, his old friends, his neighbours, his enemies and the press. Bismarck’s personality combined creative and destructive traits, generosity and pettiness, tolerance and ferocious enmity, courtesy and rudeness - in short, not only the most important nineteenth-century statesman but by far the most entertaining.
Jonathan Steinberg served for 33 years at Cambridge University as University Lecturer and then Reader in European History, Fellow of Trinity Hall, and Vice-Master. He now teaches at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia where he is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Modern European History. Steinberg has written on twentieth century Germany, Italy, Austria and Switzerland.
Samuel Johnson Prize 2011 Shortlist
This biography takes the reader into close proximity with a human being of almost superhuman abilities and one of the most interesting human beings who ever lived. It uses the diaries and letters of his contemporaries to explore a man who never said a dull thing or wrote a slack sentence. We see him through the eyes of his secretaries, his old friends, his neighbours, his enemies and the press. Bismarck’s personality combined creative and destructive traits, generosity and pettiness, tolerance and ferocious enmity, courtesy and rudeness - in short, not only the most important nineteenth-century statesman but by far the most entertaining.
Jonathan Steinberg served for 33 years at Cambridge University as University Lecturer and then Reader in European History, Fellow of Trinity Hall, and Vice-Master. He now teaches at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia where he is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Modern European History. Steinberg has written on twentieth century Germany, Italy, Austria and Switzerland.
Samuel Johnson Prize 2011 Shortlist
Bismarck: A Life by Jonathan Steinberg
Otto von Bismarck 'made' Germany but never 'ruled' it. He was a political genius who remade Europe and united Germany between 1862 and 1890 by the sheer power of his great personality and for twenty eight years he acted as a prime minister but without a party.
This biography takes the reader into close proximity with a human being of almost superhuman abilities and one of the most interesting human beings who ever lived. It uses the diaries and letters of his contemporaries to explore a man who never said a dull thing or wrote a slack sentence. We see him through the eyes of his secretaries, his old friends, his neighbours, his enemies and the press. Bismarck’s personality combined creative and destructive traits, generosity and pettiness, tolerance and ferocious enmity, courtesy and rudeness - in short, not only the most important nineteenth-century statesman but by far the most entertaining.
Jonathan Steinberg served for 33 years at Cambridge University as University Lecturer and then Reader in European History, Fellow of Trinity Hall, and Vice-Master. He now teaches at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia where he is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Modern European History. Steinberg has written on twentieth century Germany, Italy, Austria and Switzerland.
Samuel Johnson Prize 2011 Shortlist
This biography takes the reader into close proximity with a human being of almost superhuman abilities and one of the most interesting human beings who ever lived. It uses the diaries and letters of his contemporaries to explore a man who never said a dull thing or wrote a slack sentence. We see him through the eyes of his secretaries, his old friends, his neighbours, his enemies and the press. Bismarck’s personality combined creative and destructive traits, generosity and pettiness, tolerance and ferocious enmity, courtesy and rudeness - in short, not only the most important nineteenth-century statesman but by far the most entertaining.
Jonathan Steinberg served for 33 years at Cambridge University as University Lecturer and then Reader in European History, Fellow of Trinity Hall, and Vice-Master. He now teaches at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia where he is the Walter H. Annenberg Professor of Modern European History. Steinberg has written on twentieth century Germany, Italy, Austria and Switzerland.
Samuel Johnson Prize 2011 Shortlist
The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley
Matt Ridley, acclaimed author of the classics Genome and Nature via Nurture, turns from investigating human nature to investigating human progress. In The Rational Optimist, Ridley offers a counterblast to the prevailing pessimism of our age, and proves, however much we like to think to the contrary, that things are getting better.
Over 10,000 years ago there were fewer than 10 million people on the planet. Today there are more than 6 billion, 99 per cent of whom are better fed, better sheltered, better entertained and better protected against disease than their Stone Age ancestors. Yet, bizarrely, however much things improve from the way they were before, people still cling to the belief that the future will be nothing but disastrous.
In this original, optimistic book, Matt Ridley puts forward his surprisingly simple answer to how humans progress, arguing that we progress when we trade and we only really trade productively when we trust each other.
Matt Ridley received his BA and D. Phil at Oxford researching the evolution of behaviour. He has been science editor, Washington correspondent and American editor of The Economist. His books have sold over half a million copies, been translated into 25 languages and been shortlisted for six literary prizes. In 2007 Matt won the Davis Prize from the US History of Science Society for Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code. He is married to the neuroscientist Professor Anya Hurlbert.
Over 10,000 years ago there were fewer than 10 million people on the planet. Today there are more than 6 billion, 99 per cent of whom are better fed, better sheltered, better entertained and better protected against disease than their Stone Age ancestors. Yet, bizarrely, however much things improve from the way they were before, people still cling to the belief that the future will be nothing but disastrous.
In this original, optimistic book, Matt Ridley puts forward his surprisingly simple answer to how humans progress, arguing that we progress when we trade and we only really trade productively when we trust each other.
Matt Ridley received his BA and D. Phil at Oxford researching the evolution of behaviour. He has been science editor, Washington correspondent and American editor of The Economist. His books have sold over half a million copies, been translated into 25 languages and been shortlisted for six literary prizes. In 2007 Matt won the Davis Prize from the US History of Science Society for Francis Crick: Discoverer of the Genetic Code. He is married to the neuroscientist Professor Anya Hurlbert.
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