How long does it take to read Whom the Gods Love?
Leopold Infeld
Whom the Gods Love by Leopold Infeld takes about 5 hours 55 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 55 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1948. 323 pages, about 88,825 words.
12 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 9 hours 52 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 55 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 42 minutes |
The page count is the median across 2 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
This is a fascinating account of the tragic, magic, inspired, brief life of Evariste Galois, a French Mathematician whose brilliance was, perhaps, unparalleled, and whose life of tumult and turmoil ended all too soon when this young man was not quite 21 years-old.
Subjects: Mathematicians, Biography, Galois Theory, Symmetry, Group Theory, Quintic Equations
