Richard Dawkins, who holds the interesting title of "Charles Simonyi professor of the public understanding of science" at Oxford University, is a master of scientific exposition and synthesis.
The film, a bracing weave of scientific exposition, character study and the legal process, has a salience with certain viewers.
The 10-member cast shifts effortlessly from humor to drama to scientific exposition, and Dave P. Moore, the director, has an arsenal of innovative touches that make good use of Ensemble's tight quarters.
The result is a somewhat haphazard concoction of historical anecdote, personal experience and scientific exposition.
And the scientific exposition would bore them stiff.
Last year in these pages, Jim Holt found "the scientific exposition in this book" to be "almost as racy as the biographical bits".
Overbye does a very nice job of explaining the conceptual and mathematical difficulties that Einstein surmounted on his way to this goal; indeed, the scientific exposition in this book is almost as racy as the biographical bits.
In its rigorous deductive organization, the Elements remained the very model of scientific exposition until the end of the 19th century, when the German mathematician David Hilbert wrote his famous Foundations of Geometry (1899).
The book is almost entirely narrative-driven, with the only scientific exposition of OCD provided by Finch in her sessions with Bailey; for the most part, the reader lives with Bailey in the prison of her OCD-ridden mind.
The first scientific exposition of the principles that ultimately led to the successful helicopter came in 1843 from Sir George Cayley, who is also regarded by many as the father of fixed-wing flight.
