Dr. Louis Komzsik is an engineer and mathematician, a graduate of the Technical University and the Eötvös Loránd University of Sciences, both in Budapest Hungary. He immigrated to the US in 1981 and since then worked as engineer in the industry and taught mathematics at several California universities.

He is the author of a handful of internationally known mathematical and engineering textbooks. In this easily readable volume, he wrote about the history of our understanding of the intriguing phenomenon of rotation, intrinsic in life, world, and universe.