ion and this feeling of liberation is often expressed through play. The playfulness of science has produced game theory and virtual particles; in art it has produced the paintings of Picasso and Joan Mire and so on.РAs for the stylistic features of this piece of writing, the writer in his preface to the book states: “I should state at the outset(开始、开端) that this is not a technical book. My point of view is that of an interested and involved citizen of modern culture, not that of a scientist or historian of science or technology...and is intended for all those readers, nonscientists and scientists alike, who are interested in understanding the culture we inhabit”, “This book is not, however, an attempt to explain or popularize(普及) this or that development in science or technology...” heless