There are many extracurricular books on my bookshelf, which are bought by my parents and given by my relatives and friends. One of them is unique and I can't put it down. This is the prize I won in the essay contest of "Interesting Mathematics". It's From One to Infinity published by Science Press. The author of this book is george gamow of the United States. He is a world-famous physicist, astronomer and master of popular science.
This book is one of the most influential popular science masterpieces in the world today, which has aroused great repercussions in China. This book introduces some important scientific progress since the 20th century in vivid language. The book is illustrated, humorous and vivid, and easy to understand. There are four parts in the book: playing math games, space, time and Einstein, micro-world and macro-world.
Compared with other popular science books, From One to Infinity has the greatest advantage of wide coverage, cartoon-like illustrations, easy-to-understand language and vivid humor, and it has virtually learned a lot of profound scientific knowledge and even aspired to become a scientist. Open the book, and you will learn how to arrange unlimited passengers to fill them, and how to dig out the treasure buried on a desert island; You will know that the letter that appears most frequently in English is "e"; You will think that Einstein is a magician and the fruit fly is a good plaything. You will realize that there is a mysterious connection between the American flag π and the birthdays of two students in your class ... When you close it, you will begin to imagine a firebird being pulled out of its throat and jumping back into its eggshell, thus thinking about the universe. ...
From One to Infinity is not only a popular science classic, but also lets me know complex and profound scientific knowledge and anecdotes of scientists in vivid and interesting ways. Every time I read it, I will have a new understanding.
Chapter Two: Reflections on Reading From One to Infinity.
From One to Infinity is a classic popular science reading in the last century. I always wanted to see it, and then I gave it to the students, and I didn't finish it until recently.
This is a very fascinating popular science book. Like the title of the book, the author talks about infinite space from the natural number "one", covering mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, astronomy and so on. However, it is commendable that although it involves such content, it is indeed a book with great internal logic. For me as a graduate student, the biggest gain from reading this book is the connection I feel from it, the connection between knowledge and various disciplines. All roads lead to the same goal, and I always believe that the truth pursued by various disciplines should be isomorphic and essentially the same. Reading this book made me find such a connection, and how exciting it is to find this connection in my study!
Let's talk about the overall feeling and specific content first. This book is not thick, with more than 200 pages and many illustrations. This book has four parts, among which I like to explain time and space and Einstein best. I have always been in awe of the theory of relativity, thinking that I can't understand it by my IQ alone. I really don't understand it at all. When I was a child, the popular science books gave me only incomprehensible scientific facts, which seemed absurd and illogical to me, so that I had such a big prejudice against the theory of relativity from now on (it seems that popular science should be divided into different periods and children's acceptance should be considered at the same time, otherwise it may be counterproductive)! However, this book broke my prejudice and gave me a new understanding of relativity. In particular, this book starts with mathematics, which not only gives me a new understanding of time and space, but also gives me a deeper understanding of mathematics, the relationship between mathematics and other sciences!
In a word, this is a very good popular science book, suitable for middle school students, but people with higher education will also benefit from it. I think I'll read it again. Although the content of this book is no longer fashionable, I believe I can still experience new ideas and gain new understanding from it!
Article 3: from one to infinity, feel the composition after reading.
From One to Infinity is a popular science book, covering all aspects of natural science. However, unlike other common popular science works written by subject classification, the author started with stories, connected them in series, organically integrated many contents of mathematics, physics and even biology, and unconsciously wrote some most important or useful scientific knowledge and even skills, which made people have an endless overview of the basic achievements and frontier progress of natural science in fun, epiphany and knowing smile. This paper discusses the achievements of human beings in understanding the micro-world, such as basic particles and genes. ) and the macro world (such as the solar system and galaxies, etc. ).
My favorite chapter is "Modern Alchemy", which is about elementary particles, their properties and their relationships. The power of nuclear energy, the process of nuclear evolution, and scientific truth are discussed. Tell people that nuclear energy should be used correctly. The struggle of nuclear scientists and the direction of future efforts.
This book let me know the relationship between various natural sciences and our lives, as well as their influence on our lives. Science is everywhere, which gives me a deeper understanding of mathematics, physics, chemistry and even astronomy, geology and biology. Starting from the basic mathematical knowledge, Einstein's theory of relativity and four-dimensional space-time are emphatically expounded with a large number of interesting metaphors.
I learned a lot about structure. I also want to explore this knowledge more deeply.
Chapter Four: Reflections on Reading From One to Infinity.
I read From One to Infinity this semester, which is one of the most influential popular science masterpieces in the world today. It took me two months to finish reading it at the weekend. Before reading this book, I listened to my friend's recommendation and praised it. I didn't believe it at that time, so I just wanted to see if it was true. I can't find it in the library, so I have to look it up online. I looked for it for a long time and bought it online. I started reading it the first night after the express delivery.
I began to like reading novels. I read the first part in one night. Later, I will read this book every weekend night until I finish reading it. Now I think this book is really good, and it is the best book I have ever read since I was a child. No matter from its author's identity, background and so on. , or from its own level, is first-class. This book is divided into four parts. The first part is to play math games. The content is simple and interesting, which is deeply loved by teachers and students. The second part is about space, time and Einstein, the third part is about the micro world, and the fourth part is about the macro world.
Compared with other popular science books, this very special and personalized book is very different. It is completely a style of writing, which combines many contents of mathematics, physics and even biology. It seems that the author can write whatever he wants. Carry the narrative by hand. In fact, if you think about it carefully, you will feel the internal close relationship between the contents of each part.
Chapter Five: Reflections on Reading From One to Infinity.
It took me more than two hours to finish the first part today, which made me gain a lot.
In my previous cognition, it was impossible to calculate the specific size of infinite number, but I didn't have a clear understanding of the comparison between infinite number and infinite number. I just mistakenly think that some sets of infinite numbers are missing, for example, I mistakenly think that the number of even numbers is less than the number of integers. The author uses a popular description method to explain how infinite numbers are compared in size. That is, looking for a one-to-one relationship, and giving several common examples of infinite numbers, such as all even numbers, integers and ordinary fractions are equal. In fact, this should be the one-to-one mapping we learned in the function. If there is a one-to-one mapping relationship between two sets, then the number of elements in these two sets must be equal. But I think if the author explains this, it is estimated that many fewer people can understand this book.
After explaining the method of comparing the sizes of infinite numbers clearly, the author then throws a question, are all infinite numbers equal? -It's getting deeper. This leads to the second-order infinite sequence, which is preceded by the first-order infinite sequence.
The author proves by reduction to absurdity that the number of line segments is greater than the number of integers. First of all, treat each point as an infinite decimal, which is convenient for establishing the corresponding relationship. Then, assuming that the two are in one-to-one correspondence, it is easy to find that an infinite decimal (the nth bit of this decimal is not equal to the nth bit of the decimal corresponding to the nth integer) is not in such correspondence, so there is no such correspondence, that is, the number of points of a line segment is greater than the number of integers. The author also shows that the number of points on any line, surface or body is equal.
So far, mathematicians have found the third-order infinite sequence, that is, the number of all geometric curves. Although the author has not given a proof, it is easy to prove that if there is such a one-to-one correspondence between the points on the line segment and the number of geometric curves, then it is easy to find that a geometric curve is not in such a correspondence, for example, such a curve is equal to the sum of all the corresponding curves from the starting point to infinity.
I temporarily remember the first part of my experience. The author tells us the "abstruse" theory of infinite number comparison in the most basic language, which basically won't make readers understand the technical terms. I think this is the biggest highlight of this book!
Chapter Six: Reflections on Reading From One to Infinity.
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 From One to Infinity, written by American G Gamov, mainly introduces some scientific progress since the 20th 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 three, and if they exceeded three, they couldn't count ... All these reminded people 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.
Chapter 7: Reflections on Reading From One to Infinity.
There is a story about two nobles who decided to play a counting game ―― whoever gives the most numbers wins.
"Very well," said a nobleman. "You go first!"
The other racked his brains for a few minutes and finally said the biggest number he thought of: "three".
Now it's the first turn to think. After thinking hard for a quarter of an hour, he abstained and said, "You won!" " "
The intelligence of these two nobles is certainly not very developed. Besides, this is probably just an ironic story. However, if the above conversation takes place in a primitive tribe, the story is probably completely credible.
The above is the beginning of the popular science book "From One to Infinity", isn't it interesting?
This book introduces some important scientific progress since the twentieth century in vivid language. The book first rambles on some basic mathematical knowledge, then expounds Einstein's theory of relativity and four-dimensional space-time structure with some interesting examples, and discusses the achievements of human beings in understanding the micro-world, such as basic particles and genes. ) and the macro world (such as the solar system and galaxies, etc. ).
The author of this book is George, an American scientist of Russian descent. Gaimov is an outstanding theoretical physicist and astrophysicist. He attached great importance to the popularization of scientific knowledge. Besides writing for American Scientist, Physics Today and Scientific American, he also wrote more than 20 excellent popular science works.
From One to Infinity is the representative work of Gaimov, which is rich in content, interesting in writing, simple in explanation and illustrated with pictures and texts. In particular, ordinary popular science books are afraid to use mathematics because they are afraid of being "boring" and "difficult". On the contrary, the whole book runs through mathematics and talks about many new branches of mathematics. It is precisely because of the use of mathematical tools that this book has reached a considerable depth. Since its publication, the book has been reprinted many times and translated into many national languages, which is well received by readers all over the world. Many first-class scientists think highly of this book and think it is worth reading or even reading again.
Nowadays, people who advocate the intersection of arts and sciences should read literature books, while those who study literature, history and philosophy should read science books. This is really worth reading for readers who study natural science or social science.
And we are too short of such excellent reading materials, and often use literature to promote science. Back then, the publication of the reportage Goldbach Conjecture by the famous writer Xu Chi was like a spring thunder, which caused a sensation throughout the country. For the first time, we publicized intellectuals and eulogized scientists, so we knew Chen Jingrun and his one plus one. Later, Xu Chi also wrote about scientists such as Li Siguang, Cai and Zhou Peiyuan. But literature focuses on people and their fate, which is different from popular science books.
When our scientific spirit is deeply rooted in people's hearts, the status and treatment of scientific and technological workers are higher than that of officials, it is common to love and devote themselves to science, first-class scientific papers and achievements emerge one after another, the media pays more attention to science and scientists, and the Nobel Prize winners are monopolized by us, then rejuvenating the country through science and education and strengthening the country through science and technology will come naturally, and the great national rejuvenation is just around the corner.