根据法因戈尔德的说法，伏尔泰的书吸引了广泛的读者，因为“他既不是数学家也不是物理学家，而是一个远离牛顿思想学术之争的文学巨人”。
Voltaire's book commanded a wide audience, according to Feingold, because "he was neither a mathematician nor a physicist, but a literary giant aloof from the academic disputes over Newtonian ideas".
书的十二章的每一章都有他生命中的一个月相伴，它们详细描绘了数学研究的酸甜苦辣。
Each of the 12 chapters charts a month in his life, detailing the joys of mathematical discovery and the frustrations of mathematical research.
他是希腊第一位哲学家、科学家和数学家，写过一本关于航海的书，据说是阿那克西曼德的老师。
He was the first Greek philosopher, scientist, and mathematician, is credited with writing a book on navigation, and is rumored to have been Anaximander's teacher.
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