His very clear approach to function and functionality opens up space to 'new thinking' and lays the ground for growth. I do not know many doing it with so much precision, concreteness and elegance.
This is a very unusual book. It brings to the English speaking reader a masterpiece written some 50 years ago by one of the greatest minds of the 20th century--Nicholai Aleksandrovich Bernstein--considered the founder of many contemporary fields of science such as biomechanics, motor control, and physiology of activity…