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A Bouquet of Numbers and Other Scientific Offerings.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bernstein, Jeremy.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Science--Miscellanea.
- Science.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (234 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Toh Tuck Link : World Scientific Publishing Company, 2016.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- "This book is an essay collection, along with short stories, which attempts to explain some scientific ideas. Jeremy Bernstein was a long time staff writer for The New Yorker Magazine as well as a theoretical physicist. He has received several awards for his writing"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- A bouquet of numbers for Olivia
- Was Einstein smart?
- A love story
- Deuteronomy
- An unsolved mystery
- Einstein and his teacher
- Einstein versus Einstein
- Wien's law
- A quantum of education
- Sommerfeld's footnote
- Quantum mechanics
- A song for Molly
- A Schrödinger equation
- The life of a cell
- Who was Hall?
- An encore song for Molly
- Entropy
- A letter to my fellow quantum mechanics.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9789814759786
- 9814759783
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