Book · 1947 · Nonfiction

One, Two, Three ... Infinity

Name: One, Two, Three ... Infinity
Author: George Gamow

Dover Publications · 340 pages

★ 4.6 editorial score

Gamow carries a reader from counting to infinity, from atoms to the expanding universe, drawing every illustration himself. The psychologist Steven Pinker traces his science writing to reading this as a boy.

Genre

Popular science Science

Subject

Mathematics Science Cosmology Physics

Time

1947

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