Euclid's Window ~ my latest acquisition

In Euclid's Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace (2001), Leonard Mlodinow says there have been five revolutions, centered around five people:

The Story of Euclid
The Story of Descartes
The Story of Gauss
The Story of Einstein
The Story of Witten

And he tells stories about lots of other things, like the geometry of taxation, the origin of latitude and longitude, the curved space revolution, relativity's other Albert, the weird revolution.  Just before the epilogue, he closes with "The Theory Formerly Known as Strings."  What?  I'm just beginning to get string theory, and he's changing everything?  What I've read so far, as I said above, is fascinating.  I'll try really hard to get around to a review of this one when I finish reading it.
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Remember when you were a kid and getting new crayons was a big deal?  Getting new books holds the same kind of magic for some of us big kids.  Susan at Color Online came up with the idea of New Crayons as a metaphor for the new books that have arrived at your house.
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