Convergence: The Idea at the Heart of Science

“Those seeking a grand overview of science’s greatest hits over the past century will find it here.” —The Washington Post

From the bestselling author of Ideas and The Modern Mind comes a bold history of science offering a groundbreaking and powerful argument: the many disparate scientific disciplines are converging on the same truths.

Convergence is a history of modern science with an original and significant twist. Various scientific disciplines, despite their very different beginnings, hav...