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A bouquet of numbers and other scientific offerings
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"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 ...
"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"--
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- Creator
- Jeremy Bernstein, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd., [2016]
- ©2016
- Physical Details
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- vi, 227 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9789814759762, 9814759767, 9789814759779, 9814759775
- OCLC
- ocn932002138
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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