In this fascinating book, Nobel Prize winner Pierre-Gilles de
Gennes wittily captures the lives of personalities from both the
academic and the industrial world in delightful bite-size stories.
Most of the characters in this collection are like those in Aesop's
fables, but in modern-day research settings. The book provides a
critical account of aberrations (fortunately rare) of the
scientific community. Many lessons can be drawn from the stories.
For the young researcher, this book is like a telescope: for seeing
other human beings beyond his or her laboratory. For the
administrator, this book is like a microscope: for seeing inside
the human beings huge and complex structures. However, like Aesop's
fables, you would not offer the book as a gift to anyone other than
a close and wise friend. Petit Point is not a book to be devoured
in a single sitting. It is one to be savored and reflected upon -
it shows what the world may be like and what we ourselves may
become. It is like a mirror - to be visited from time to time.
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