The Best of All Possible Worlds

Introduction
1. Keeping the Beat
2. The Birth of Modern Science
3. The Least Action Principle
4. From Computations to Geometry
5. Poincaré and Beyond
6. Pandora's Box
7. May the Best One Win
8. The End of Nature
9. The Common Good
10. A Personal Conclusion
Appendix 1. Finding the Second Diameter of a Convex Table
Appendix 2. The Stationary Action Principle for General Systems
Bibliographical Notes
Index