Comment on From One to Infinity: A Model essay of 1500 words (1)
A few days ago, my mother bought us a popular science book called From One to Infinity. Many people who watched it said it was difficult and boring. I read this book just to challenge myself.
This book is written by American G? From One to Infinity, written by Gaimov, mainly introduces some scientific progress since the twentieth century in vivid language. This book is not only vivid and easy to understand, but also rich in content and illustrated. In particular, general popular science books are often afraid that mathematics is too "boring" and "difficult" to use, and are limited to qualitative concept descriptions. This book runs through mathematics and tells the contents of many emerging branches of mathematics. It is precisely because of the use of mathematical tools that this book has reached a considerable depth. When I read this book, the words are easy to read, but when it comes to mathematical concepts, I immediately froze. Indeed, we don't know some basic concepts yet.
To say that I like not only some short stories, but also those interesting and novel topics, just like a number game. How many can you count? I said some ridiculous things. In the past, people only counted to 3, and beyond 3, countless people were reminded of the progress of modern cultural knowledge.
I learned a lot of new mathematics knowledge unconsciously, and it has great connection with other disciplines. Although I haven't read all of them, I can't wait to finish the wonderful books. I believe that after reading the book From One to Infinity, it will be more helpful for my future study.
Comment on From One to Infinity: A Model essay of 1500 words (II)
I am very happy today. Finally, after reading Gamov's From One to Infinity, I can write some thoughts.
For me, this is a very difficult physics popular science book, which is not easy to understand. I crustily skin of head and read most of it, but I didn't understand it. I decided to put it down and have a rest before watching it. After reading some literature books, I relaxed physically and mentally, and picked up this popular physics book.
Unlike reading novels, reading high-tech popular science books takes some brains. When reading a book, you should turn your head, think, calculate and judge quickly, so as to keep up with the author's ideas and refer to the reader's success. Turn to the last page, finally relieved, haha, finally paid off the old debt before the end of the year.
This is a popular science book that I can never get tired of reading. Like me, there is no foundation, and it takes several times to feel it. Now I can only read like a few words, which is not information at all. What I can forgive myself is that I don't do physics, so I don't need to know much.
Physics was not very good at school, which led me to have no feelings for physics so far. When I was at school, I always thought it was best to get rid of physics early.
Times have changed. In recent years, with the progress of science and technology, my thoughts have also changed greatly. I swear, even if I don't know physics, I will read more popular science books! This is the only way to get rid of ignorance of natural science!
In popular science books, biology is my favorite, followed by physics, which is completely influenced by someone. I occasionally read some books that others like to read and find them very interesting. Isn't popular science books available to everyone? This is not a scientist's patent! Why don't you have a look? You won't lose anything! There are many ways out and many ideas, right?
Author George? Gamov is a Russian-American scientist, a world-famous physicist and astronomer, and a master of popular science.
From One to Infinity is one of Gamov's representative works. It is a world-famous popular science work and has been selling well.
Gamov is a famous great scientist who is engaged in the research of physics and astronomy at the forefront of science. At the same time, he is keen on writing popular science works, and has made a lot of sincere and practical efforts to make the general public understand the development of physics, astronomy and other scientific fields and win the favor of the goddess of wisdom. Because of this, Gamov is widely admired and loved.
The power given by the master is infinite.
Have you read Physics and Astronomy by another popular science writer Carl before? Sagan's popular science books, Gamov and Sagan have similarities: the same humor, Gamov's humor is Russian humor.
Bao Yongning, a famous translator, said in the postscript that Gamov's humor was "cheerful and optimistic mood infected after immigrating to the United States", but I don't think so. Gamov's humor is still Russian-style humor, rather than humor affected after arriving in the United States. Come to think of it, Nikolai Nikolai Gogol, Chekhov and bulgakov are all Russians, aren't they?
Thanks to Gamov's humor, easy-to-understand examples and his own cartoon illustrations, otherwise, for a layman like me in physics and astronomy, reading popular science books is like eating coptis chinensis, which is even more painful.
Comment on From One to Infinity: 1500 words (3)
I have joined several book clubs. Let me talk about my feelings about attending the book club first. First, I have a new understanding of "reading". The word "reading" itself, whether traditional or simplified, expresses the same meaning. I haven't checked the explanation of words in words, nor have I studied the specific meaning of Cangjie's word-making. My personal understanding refers to the promotion of speech, perhaps the dissemination of valuable ideas, but if this statement is put into the feudal dynasty, I am sure there is no way out. Here, this interpretation is a bit interesting. We spend money and energy to select what we think is worthy of appreciation from the vast sea of books and share it with you at the book club, so that everyone can see the world through our eyes, translate the world and appreciate it. We are connected by similarity and grow up by difference.
I think there are three levels of reading. One is to read the contents of the book itself, experience the joys and sorrows, grievances and enmities conveyed in the book, and understand the author's life, wisdom and insights; Second, the structure of reading and the application of writing skills, as well as the results achieved; The third is to look at the author's purpose and the information behind his words.
Now I will talk about my experience after reading From One to Infinity and share it with you. This book consists of four parts, the first part is the game of numbers, the second part is time and space and Einstein, the third part is the micro world, and the fourth part is the macro world.
Seeing that the first part of logarithmic composition system has a basic understanding and the concept of reality and falsehood, I have a question. Since there are imaginary numbers and negative numbers, why should he name them from 1 to infinity? Not from infinity to infinity, with this question, I entered the second part.
After reading the second part, we understand that the world of our senses is composed of points, lines and surfaces. After the author added a concept of "time" to our understanding, everything in the world moved. We are no longer static. We will observe a fragment of the world at a time and space point, and we will be able to roam the past and the future with individuals as the reference in an aircraft traveling faster than the speed of light, and have a deeper understanding of this changing and moving world.
Enter the third part of the microscopic world. To feel the spirit of human exploration, we need to know what the world is made of and whether there are inseparable "atoms". The answer is yes for a period of time, but with the improvement of people's cognitive means, there are different "atoms" at different stages. I think this matter will continue. Maybe in the end, we will only see a mass of energy and information. Seeing this, I realized that people in that era may think that they already knew the "minimum" but the "maximum" is really mysterious and vast, so awe is defined as infinity, perhaps because the essence of infinitesimal or infinity is the same, so that 1 is our human beings, which shows the endless exploration spirit of human beings.
The fourth part is the macro world. The author outlined a shocking and now known universe for us. Its function is to make us understand that human knowledge has four quadrants, I know I know, I know I don't know, I don't know I know, I don't know I don't know.
Less space in the book is about life, living and inanimate. Define that living things have the characteristics of eating, growing and living. The author didn't give us more answers about life, leaving us more thoughts after reading it. What is the motivation of life? The author put forward the gene, but I understand it is a process of biological development. The author also mentioned whether the laws of physics are applicable to organisms. This reminds me of entropy, which is the second law of thermodynamics: "All physical processes that depend on the irregular motion of molecules are developing in the direction of increasing probability, and when the process stops reaching equilibrium, it reaches the maximum probability." I understand that the generation of this equilibrium state is the release of energy, not consumption, because energy is conserved, and it is only a relatively stable process of energy in a specific environment. Just like human activities, with the development of human beings, after the exploration of the mainland, there will be an era of great navigation, and it will certainly experience the aviation era and enter the space age. This is inevitable, and this development is infinite. However, the speed of development depends to a great extent on the energy we can use, so it is not surprising that all developed countries are now competing for energy from the earth and even from outer space.
Simply looking at biological development, it seems that the task of cells is reproduction. No matter how fast reproduction is, it is also restricted by the environment. In this state, it will cause variation. Some cells will change, tend to be complex and expand their living environment. Maybe this is Darwin's natural selection. The appearance of complex creatures will not make simple creatures disappear. The fact is that their living environment is relatively independent and restricted. Like the concept of set in mathematics, advanced creatures maintain a relatively independent and huge set of living environments in nature, which will intersect with the living sets of other animals. Their abundant food and the relative limitation of living environment make this creature complicated.
Finally, let's go back to "from one to infinity". Imagine that humans are not like this. Everyone wants to go from one to infinity, especially men. Although restricted by conditions, as long as there are conditions, they will unconsciously copy themselves. But in today's world, "reproduction" is diversified, one of which is the reproduction of ideas, so that everyone has the values and world outlook of the copied person, which is faster, wider and more lasting than the original reproduction, so reproduction is also from simple to complex.