The impossibility of the second kind. Steinhardt P.

This book is fascinating and accessible in the first person telling the story of an amazing scientific discovery. Physician Theoretic Pol Stainhardt, Professor of Princeton University, author of important cosmological theories about the early universe, in whose honor the International Mineralogical Association in 2014 called the new mineral "Steinhardtit", describes how a new form of substance was found-quasicristals, with the configuration of atoms prohibited laws of classical crystallography. This is an exciting story about the origin of a new scientific direction, about the “impossibility”, which turned out to be possible, about genuine passion and desperate courage in science.