Polish mathematician of Jewish origin and British national, Bronowski is famous above all for his popular science television series The Rise of Man, broadcast by the BBC, from which an official book with the same title was published, which we now present This work, which describes in 13 chapters the history of the intellectual development of the human being, its gains and losses, its pains and its successes, made it one of the most important disseminators of science and, at the same time, one of the few representatives (the first, perhaps) of a Renaissance humanism in the middle of the 20th century.

On the occasion of the great wound caused to humanity by the equivocal application of the theoretical advances in atomic physics during World War II (the great number of human losses, in particular that caused by the atomic bombs dropped on Nagasaki and Hiroshima), He changed his field of interest, like many other theoretical and applied physicists of his time, for the human sciences and the life sciences (biology). Bronowski was also a poet, inventor, theater author, humanist, and published a total of eleven books before his death.