![]() All my guides have been disabused of the belief that there’s no such thing as a foolish question. Owen Gingerich and Simon Schaffer sorted out historical mysteries that had stumped me. Steven Shapin, an eminent historian of science, generously shared his deep insights into science and the 1600s. I owe special gratitude to Rebecca Grossman, Mike Briley, Cole Miller, and, especially, Larry Carlin, who carried out, solely for my benefit, the best of all possible philosophy tutorials. In researching this book I pestered many long-suffering physicists, historians, and philosophers with queries about everything from spiral galaxies to Leibniz’s thoughts on unicorns. ![]() But I owe thanks to a host of mentors, Fred Solomon and Gene Dolnick notable among them, who first opened my eyes to mathematical beauty. After several years wandering dazed through infinite dimensional spaces, I left the hunt to those better suited to it. It was succeeded by a far longer-lived but perhaps equally foolish notion, to spend a lifetime studying theoretical mathematics. My first career ambition, years ago, was to play professional basketball.
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