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Title: a book for everyone
Review: This book offers great insight into the historical foundations of modern physics through exploring five equations and the people who deduced them.Guillen is much stronger in explaining the lives of great scientists than their equations. However, by reading about the conditions of the lives each scientist faced one gains a much better understanding of the "evolution" of science.As a prospective physics major, I found this book particularly inspirational and have shared it with my friends (who also enjoyed it).I recommend reading this book, if only because you'll feel smart next time your professor starts rattling off anecdotes from some scientist's life. If you're not a science person, it's a good general introduction. Not too strenuous, yet not too basic. My recommendation: Go for it.
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