Roots of Modern Technology

• Explaining Modern Technology.- Explaining Modern Technology.- I: Fundamentals of Mathematics and Logic.- Mathematicians Are Humans Like You and Me – They Count and Arrange.- Mathematicians Are Nothing Special – They Draw and Compare.- When It Helps to Ignore Any Meaning.- About the Methods for Computing the Future.- What Talking and Writing Have in Common.- II: Fundamentals of Natural Sciences.- What the Moon Has to Do with Mechanical Engineering.- How Albert Einstein Disregarded Common Sense.- How a Few Frog Legs Triggered the Origin of Electrical Engineering.- Small, Smaller, Smallest – How the Components of Matter Were Found.- How the Difference between Particles and Waves Disappeared.- How “Recipes” in the Cells of Living Organisms Were Found and Can Be Rewritten.- III: Fundamentals of Engineering.- Why Engineers Are “Playing with Models”.- Everything becomes Digital – Really Everything?.

From the reviews: "The author has undertaken to teach a willing student ... all the mathematics and physics behind the complex technology of contemporary society, ranging from basic numbers to calculus, probability theory, relativity, quantum mechanics, and even string theory. ... the book is ... elegant. Summing Up: ... . General readers." (M. Schiff, Choice, Vol. 48 (6), February, 2011)