I wish I could give this book a higher rating. It is filled with information, clearly explained. But Chapter 10 includes an unconscionable, ill-informed, gratuitously nasty discussion of the mathematician Dorothy Wrinch (1890-1976) that not only denigrates her work but her character too. Why savage Wrinch, instead of dispassionately criticizing her papers? Since I can't imagine why, I must assume that the portraits of other scientists in this book are unreliable too.