By Jaan Einasto
World Scientific
Hardback: £82
E-book: £61
This book describes the contributions that led to a paradigm shift from the point of view of a scientist from behind the “Iron Curtain”. It describes the problems with the classical view, the attempts to solve them, the difficulties encountered by those solutions, and the conferences where the merits of the new concepts were debated. Amid the science, the story of scientific work in a small country – Estonia – occupied by the Soviet Union, and the tumultuous events that led to its break up, are detailed as well.
