QUIPS, QUOTES AND QUANTA: AN ANECDOTAL HISTORY OF PHYSICS - Softcover

Fiell, Charlotte & Peter

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ISBN 10: 9812709207 ISBN 13: 9789812709202

Verlag: WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING CO PTE LTD, 2007

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Capri has woven these stories so skillfully into an exposition of modern physics and its historical development that the reader hardly notices he is learning something (in fact a great deal) as he gets carried from one laugh to the next. My mouth is watering for Volume 2. --Professor Werner Israel, University of Victoria, Canada

This book is a great success and will be sure to entertain physicists and science lovers, exposing, as it does, the human face of physics. It will enable those without a good grasp of physics to gain a big picture view of the development of modern physics through the figures that made it. --Mathematical Reviews

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This book deals with the history of physics, covering important developments in physics from the end of the nineteenth century to about 1930. Major topics include relativity theory (both special and general) and quantum mechanics.This book is unique in that it concentrates on anecdotes about the physicists creating the new ideas. Both thematic and biographical in nature, it contains a heavy emphasis on personal incidents or quotes. Readers will be entertained with humorous incidents in the lives of some famous scientists, and simultaneously learn quite a bit of modern physics without the mathematical details, but with the important concepts. Academics and anyone interested in science in the most general sense are likely to want to read this book.

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• Verlag: WORLD SCIENTIFIC PUBLISHING CO PTE LTD
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• ISBN 10: 9812709207
• ISBN 13: 9789812709202
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 208