Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Italian: Sette brevi lezioni di fisica) is a short book by the Italian physicist Carlo Rovelli. Originally published in Italian in 2014, by 2021 the book has been translated into 52 languages.[1] More than a million copies have been sold, of which more than 400,000 in Italy.[2]
Overview
The book condenses the revelations of post-Newtonian physics – from Einstein's theory of relativity to quantum mechanics – into seven brief, accessible lessons.[3] These were originally serialised in an Italian newspaper.[4] Rovelli uses a literary approach, for instance, highlighting a year Einstein spent apparently aimlessly with the comment that those who don't waste time, won't get anywhere.[5]
The chapters are:
The Most Beautiful of Theories
The Quanta
The Architecture of the Cosmos
Particles
Grains of Space
Probability, Time and the Heat of Black Holes
Ourselves
Critical reception
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics was generally well-received. According to Book Marks, the book received a "positive" consensus, based on 7 critic reviews: 2 "rave", 3 "positive", 1 "mixed", and 1 "pan".[6]
References
^ Le Monde, Sept 24, 2021. Carlo Rovelli, rockstar de la mécanique quantique [1]
