Pythagoras' Trousers: God, Physics, and the Gender Wars

ISBN: 081292200X

Author: Wertheim, Margaret

Condition: New

This astute social and cultural history of physics explores how the development of physics has been intertwined with the rising power of institutionalized religion, and how both these predominantly masculine pursuits have influenced women's ability to join the physics community, the science itself, and the picture of reality it portrays.