Science/Mathematics– theme –

"Perfect Rigor" is a biography that depicts the life of the genius mathematician Perelman who solved the extremely difficult problem in mathematics, the Poincaré conjecture, and declined a million-dollar prize and a Nobel Prize-level honor. The book focuses on his personal life and the struggles of "the gifted" individual who was born and raised in the Soviet Union, with almost no mathematical descriptions.

For those who felt that the title "Faster Than the Speed of Light" makes it a fallacious book, rest assured that this is actually a very legitimate work. Regardless of whether the varying speed of light theory (VSL theory) is correct, the book presents a challenging hypothesis that attempts to compensate for the flaws in the Big Bang theory with a different logic than cosmic inflation.

The "Math Girls" series by Yuki Hiroshi are math books for the general public that conveys the interesting aspects of mathematics while delving into quite advanced topics. The third volume's theme is "Gödel's incompleteness theorems." You will learn the theory of a young genius who shattered the ambition of a mathematician named Hilbert.

"Quantum Man" is a general book that is said to be the first to cover the "achievements as a scientist" made by Feynman, who is known for many interesting episodes. Based on this book, understand the indirect contributions to various fields made by his unique research methods and the impact of the "Feynman diagram".

The developers of genome editing technology "CRISPR-Cas9," which has completely transformed the field of biology, had no intention of inventing such a thing. Based on the book "A Crack In Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution" by the Nobel Prize-winning author, this is the story of their discovery.

In the world of mathematics, there are two schools of thought: those who believe math is created by God, and those who believe it is created by humans. Based on "Is God a Mathematician?", we can learn about the debate of whether math is a discovery or an invention and how each perspective has changed throughout the history of mathematics.

"IUT (Inter-Universal Teichmüller Theory)," which underwent an 8-year review process and was published in a journal, became a hot topic for proving the most important unresolved math problem, the "abc conjecture." Based on "宇宙と宇宙をつなぐ数学(mathematics that connects 宇宙と宇宙) " and " abc予想入門(abc conjecture primer)," it teaches about "IUT" and the "abc conjecture."

"Perfect Rigor" is a biography that depicts the life of the genius mathematician Perelman who solved the extremely difficult problem in mathematics, the Poincaré conjecture, and declined a million-dollar prize and a Nobel Prize-level honor. The book focuses on his personal life and the struggles of "the gifted" individual who was born and raised in the Soviet Union, with almost no mathematical descriptions.

The question "What is life?" may seem too basic, but it's actually quite difficult. 20th-century biology considered "self-replication of DNA" to be the essence of life, but the discovery of "viruses" forced a reconsideration. We can learn about the essence of life from two works by Shinichi Fukuoka: "生物と無生物のあいだ(Between Animate and Inanimate)" and "動的平衡(Dynamic Equilibrium)."

"Fermat's Last Theorem" is a conjecture left by a mathematician more than 350 years ago. Until it was proved by Wiles in 1995, there were countless dramas surrounding it. From Simon Singh's works and the "Math Girls" series, we can learn about the human drama and mathematical aspects of the theorem.

The theme of the fifth installment of the "Math Girls" series depicts people who are through mathematics, with a focus on high school students, and it's about "Galois theory." The book traces the thoughts left behind by a genius who single-handedly pioneered the new field of "group theory," but was too pioneering to be understood by the mathematicians of his time, and later died in a duel.

"Prime numbers" have fascinated mathematicians from all over the world for centuries. It was very difficult to find their patterns, but for the first time, it was showed as the "Riemann Hypothesis". From books like "The Music of the Primes" and "The Riemann Hypothesis: The Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics," we can gain a basic understanding of the "Riemann Hypothesis" that genius mathematicians have taken on.