Amir Aczel Audio & Video

Amir D. Aczel, mathematician and historian of science, talks about the largest and yet arguably the most fundamental experiment in scientific history: the work with the Large Hadron Collider.

Amir Aczel discusses his new book, Uranium Wars, a provocative history of the scientists who discovered atomic energy.

Will "beam me up, Scotty" become reality? Quantum mechanics suggests it may...and soon...

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin is considered by many to be the godfather of evolutionary spirituality. And the influence of this early twentieth-century Jesuit priest and paleontologist, who kept a picture of Christ right next to a picture of Galileo on his bedside table, can be found just about anywhere you look in the fertile territory where science and spirituality meet.

In a work that is at once lucid, exhilarating and profound, renowned mathematician Dr. Amir Aczel, critically acclaimed author of Fermat's Last Theorem, takes us into the heart of science's greatest mystery.

In December 1929, in a cave near Peking, a group of anthropologists and archaeologists that included a young French Jesuit priest named Pierre Teilhard de Chardin uncovered a prehuman skull. The find quickly became known around the world as Peking Man and was acclaimed as the missing link between erect hunting apes and our Cro-Magnon ancestors.

Toward the end of the 19th century, one of the most brilliant mathematicians in history languished in an asylum...

The secrets of science meet the drama of the high seas. Amir D. Aczel, the distinguished science writer, turns detective as he uncovers the fascinating story...