The book touches on many subjects without being superficial. It is very good to indicate that each scientist has brought to science which is also very educational way from simple theories of yesteryear to reach the modern theories. It makes you want to learn more about every subject he touches, which is a quality. Finally, exceptional or rare in French bouqin all age groups, an index allows to find what we read. For me, a book of science or history without an index is like a sleeveless pan. Well, for some pretentious and conceited authors as Attali, it must be a quality is a guarantee that we will not return especially if we discover it also piqued there verbatim (yes, that's the name of one of his books, even impudence Madoff who called his Bull boat).
I came to Trinh Xuan Thuan via its dialogue with Matthieu Ricard: Infinity in the palm of the hand: From the Big Bang to the awakening. I had trouble with Buddhism and dialogue between scientific and Buddhist culture, science gave me the keys to understand it.