‘Encounters with Infinity’ is a pleasant and delectable collection of three plays that bring to life some of the most compelling figures in the history of modern science. Through ‘The Square Root of a Sonnet’, ‘The Trial of Abdus Salam’, and ‘Invisible Particles’, Nilanjan P Choudhury explores the lives of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Abdus Salam, Bibha Chowdhuri, and Marietta Blau. Far from being conventional biographical narratives, these plays examine the human dramas that lie behind scientific discovery, ambition, friendship, prejudice, exile, recognition, and the relentless pursuit of truth. In doing so, Choudhury demonstrates how theatre can illuminate not only scientific ideas...