Driven to Innovate A Century of Jewish Mathematicians and Physicists

«A wonderful taste of the lives of some great mathematicians and physicists who were either Jewish or of Jewish antecedents. The author asks searching questions about the combination of intellectual challenge, argument and upbringing that makes some ordinary Jewish families produce these brilliant scientific thinkers. We do not know the answers, but, reading these stories, we surely want to learn more.» (Rabbi Julia Neuberger)
«There is a certain nervousness about discussing the prominence of Jews in twentieth-century mathematics. This book does an excellent job in presenting an issue in the history of mathematics which is generally recognized and acknowledged by mathematicians, but hardly ever dealt with in print. A careful and authoritative account of the lives and contributions of his subjects.» (Professor Reuben Hersh, author of 'What is Mathematics, Really?')