Many years, almost a decade since I first read THE CHICKEN FROM MINSK. The famous book with problems and puzzles from the rich Russian literature concerning Math, Physics, Mechanics and their applications in simple description but brightly inspired from this beautiful thing called science ….
well about the book if you are a more of ‘math’ type I would not recommend it. I initially hated and found it that these problems were not my style, but life is a bitch and proved me that I was wrong. You should definitely should try it and will learn many things (especially for engineers) . Well even if you try good old style problems from All Russian Math Olympiads on a piece of paper or even you are trying to solve Navier-Stokes with numerical analysis with multiple processors, the trip is the same and it is yours, the best trip by your self …
so there are times in our lives we should say: fuck money, honours and degrees I want just science …