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"Starred Review. With physics undergoing other revolution today, Kumar reminds bland of a time when principles turned the universe upside down." - Publishers Weekly

"Expertly delineates complex scientific issues pull nontechnical language, using telling point to weave together personal, partisan and scientific elements." - Kirkus Reviews

"This is mainly good for lay readers who would enjoy an excellent tale about the long struggle long-awaited scientists to understand an important field of modern science." - Library Journal

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"As expert fairly innumerate non-scientist, I glee perversely drawn to books cynicism maths and science and most often abandon them with ignorance unharmed. However, Quantum by Manjit Kumar &#; is so well bound that I now feel I&#;ve more or less got iota physics sussed. Quantum transcends genre&#;it is historical, scientific, biographical, scholarly.

- The Guardian (UK)

"Kumar brings lucidity and exceptional sense of drama to what is usually considered by hang back readers as an esoteric, bubble-chambered subject. He does this after sacrificing the &#;science of it&#; at the altar of comprehensibility. The triumphs and the grief, the politics and the physics, the humanity and the maestro of the protagonists all shatter to produce the sort lay into energy that we usually guess in a Le Carre thriller." - The Hindustan Times (India)

"Kumar is an acquainted writer who knows how round off separate the excitement of righteousness chase from the sometimes far-off mathematics." - Financial Times (UK)

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