The World treasury of physics, astronomy, and mathematics
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- ISBN: 0316281298 :
- ISBN: 9780316281294
- ISBN: 0316071366
- ISBN: 9780316071369
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Physical Description:
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xv, 859 p. : ill ; 24 cm. - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: Boston : Little, Brown, c1991.
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Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Foreword -- Preface -- Part 1: Realm Of The Atom -- Atoms and quarks -- Atoms in motion / Richard P Feynman -- Large and the small / Kenneth W Ford -- Gay tribe of electrons / George Gamow -- Radioactive substances / Pierre Curie -- E=mc² / Albert Einstein -- Man who listened / Robert P Crease and Charles C Mann -- Theory of electrons and positrons / Paul A M Dirac -- Copenhagen interpretation of quantum theory / Werner Heisenberg -- Uncertainty and complementarity / Heinz R Pagels -- Schrodinger's cat / Heinz R Pagels -- Unified theory of physics / Timothy Ferris -- Butterflies and super strings / Freeman J Dyson -- Time and space -- Distinction of past and future / Richard P Feynman -- Second law of thermodynamics / Max Planck -- Age of the elements / David N Schramm -- Two masses / Isaac Asimov -- Einstein's law of gravitation / Bertrand Russell -- Black holes / Roger Penrose -- Black holes ain't so black / Stephen W Hawking -- Part 2: Wider Universe -- Sun and beyond -- Total eclipse / Annie Dillard -- Astride the comet / Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan -- Cosmic terrorist / Richard Muller -- I think I see it / Richard Muller -- Classifying the stars / Annie J Cannon -- How a supernova explodes / Hans A Bethe and Gerald Brown -- Measuring the universe / Harlow Shapley -- Milky Way galaxy / Bart J Bok -- Structure of the universe -- Cosmology: the quest to understand the creation and expansion of the universe / Allan Sandage -- Exploration of space / Edwin Hubble -- Spherical space / Arthur Stanley Eddington -- Primeval atom / Georges Lemaitre -- New physics and the universe / James Trefil -- Let there be light: modern cosmogony and biblical creation / Owen Gingerich -- Beginnings and endings -- First three minutes / Steven Weinberg -- Magic furnace / Harald Fritzsch -- Origin of the universe / Alan Lightman -- How will the world end? / John D Barrow and Joseph Silk -- Part 3: Cosmos Of Numbers -- About mathematics -- Mathematician's apology / Godfrey Harold Hardy -- Mathematics and creativity / Alfred Adler -- How long is the coast of Britain? / Benoit B Mandelbrot -- Chaos / James Gleick -- Artificial intelligence and all that -- Computers / Lewis Thomas -- Computer and the brain / John von Neumann -- Can a machine think? / Alan Turing -- Math angst -- Loss of certainty / Morris Kline -- Unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in the natural sciences / Eugene P Wigner -- What is mathematics / John D Barrow -- Limits of mathematics / Philip J Davis and Reuben Hersh -- |
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