With his characteristic eyebrow-raising behavior, Richard P. Feynman once provoked the wife of a Princeton dean to remark, "Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!" But the many scientific and personal achievements of this Nobel Prize-winning physicist are no laughing matter. Here, woven with his scintillating views on modern science, Feynman relates the defining moments of his accomplished life.

In this collection of lectures that Richard Feynman originally gave in 1963, unpublished during his lifetime, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist discusses several of the ultimate questions of science. What is the nature of the tension between science and religious faith? Why does uncertainty play such a crucial role in the scientific imagination? Is this really a scientific age?

Quantum theory is weird. As Niels Bohr said, if you aren’t shocked by quantum theory, you don’t really understand it. For most people, quantum theory is synonymous with mysterious, impenetrable science. And in fact for many years it was equally baffling for scientists themselves. In this tour de force of science history, Manjit Kumar gives a dramatic and superbly written account of this fundamental scientific revolution.

Cosmos is one of the bestselling science books of all time. In clear-eyed prose, Sagan reveals a jewel-like blue world inhabited by a life form that is just beginning to discover its own identity and to venture into the vast ocean of space.

The aim of this book is to explain, carefully but not technically, the differences between advanced, research-level mathematics and the sort of mathematics we learn at school. The most fundamental differences are philosophical, and listeners of this book will emerge with a clearer understanding of paradoxical-sounding concepts such as infinity, curved space, and imaginary numbers. The first few chapters are about general aspects of mathematical thought.  

Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger's What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the 20th century. A distinguished physicist's exploration of the question which lies at the heart of biology, it was written for the layman but proved one of the spurs to the birth of molecular biology and the subsequent discovery of the structure of DNA. It appears here together with "Mind and Matter", his essay investigating a relationship which has eluded and puzzled philosophers since the earliest times.

Are you fascinated by the laws of nature, quantum physics, and its basic concepts that seem meaningless? Quantum mechanics is a field that attempts to understand the behavior of subatomic objects using mathematical notions. The book explains uncertainty and time dependence by further elaborating on the principles of quantum states. It also describes the entanglement of particle and wave states, thereby offering interested listeners the possibility of understanding physics at a slower tempo.

J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of the iconic figures of the 20th century, a brilliant physicist who led the effort to build the atomic bomb but later confronted the moral consequences of scientific progress. When he proposed international controls over atomic materials, opposed the development of the hydrogen bomb, and criticized plans for a nuclear war, his ideas were anathema to powerful advocates of a massive nuclear buildup during the anti-Communist hysteria of the early 1950s.

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“数の原子”とも言われる素数は、数学者・科学者を魅了してやまない。 素数とは、１と自分自身の他に約数を持たない数のこと。 この数字は実にミステリアスで、２、３、５、７と現れたかと思えば次は１１。出没が気まぐれなのだ。 人類はこの数の規則性を明らかにするために、途方もない研究の歴史を積み重ねてきた。 なかでも数学史上最大の難題である「リーマン予想」は、素数の出現規則の解明のための最大の鍵。 それがわかれば、この宇宙の構造までも見えてくるという――。 本書では文系にもわかりやすく奥深い素数の世界を解説する。

優れたアルゴリズム、大量のデータ、高速なコンピュータ。３つの要素がそろい新たなＡＩ時代が到来した。企業の現場でもＡＩの実用事例が増えている。だが、ＡＩをめぐる誤解も多々ありそうだ。機械学習に適したデータか？　問題解決の手段はＡＩ以外でも十分ではないか？　人や組織とＡＩが融合し最適化できるか？　またＡＩビジネスにかかわる法的リスクとは…。基本をおさえてビジネスに効くＡＩに触れてみよう。

本書は『週刊東洋経済』２０１７年７月８日号掲載の２６ページ分を電子化したものです。

理論上の天体「ホワイトホール」の存在に迫る！　天才物理学者による圧巻の宇宙論2019年に観測され、ついに存在が明らかになった「ブラックホール」。光さえも吸い込むこの天体は、どのような運命をたどるのか。

Including letters, speeches, articles, and essays written before 1935, this collection offers a complete portrait of Einstein as a humanitarian and as a human being trying to make sense of the world changing around him. 

まだ見ぬ「神」を探して――岡潔×小林秀雄の名著『人間の建設』の現代版がここに誕生！話者のひとりはカオス理論の確立者であり、複雑系科学の第一人者の数学者、物理学者の津田一郎。

Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive - and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. But Mark isn't ready to give up yet.

The world is never finished catching up with Vaclav Smil. In his latest and perhaps most digestible book, Invention and Innovation, the prolific author—a favorite of Bill Gates—pens an insightful and fact-filled jaunt through the history of human invention. Impatient with the hype that so often accompanies innovation, Smil offers in this book a clear-eyed corrective to the overpromises that accompany everything from new cures for diseases to AI.