The World treasury of physics, astronomy, and mathematics

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=mcp2s / 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 --

Part 4: Ways Of Science

Scientists' lives and works

Albert Einstein / John Archibald Wheeler

Autobiographical notes / Albert Einstein

Tribute to Max Planck / Albert Einstein

Rutherford / C P Snow

Dirac / Jagdish Mehra

Hilbert / Paul A M Dirac

Quest for order / John Tierney

Legend of John von Neumann / P R Halmos

On the beach / Andrew Hodges

Ramanujan and Pi / Jonathan M Borwein and Peter B Borwein

Paul Erdos: mathematician / Lee Dembart

Man of science-Abdus Salam / Nigel Calder

Two shakers of physics: memorial lecture for Sin-itiro Tomonaga / Julian Schwinger

Robert Wilson and the building of Fermilab / Philip J Hilts

Los Alamos / Stanislaw M Ulam

Coming into my own / Luis W Alvarez

Two cultures / C P Snow

Women in science / Vivian Gornick

Iron / Primo Levi

Poetry of science

When I heard the learn'd astronomer / Walt Whitman

I am like a slip of comet / Gerard Manley Hopkins

Arcturus / Emily Dickinson

Star-swirls / Robinson Jeffers

Galaxy / Richard Ryan

Molecular evolution / James Clerk Maxwell

Atomic architecture / A M Sullivan

Seeing things / Howard Nemerov

Cosmic gall / John Updike

Nomad / Anthony Piccione

Little cosmic dust poem / John Haines

Connoisseur of chaos / Wallace Stevens

Kings of the world / Rainer Maria Rilke

Windy planet / Annie Dillard

Space shuttle / Diane Ackerman

Epistemology / Richard Wilbur

What science says to truth / William Watson

from An essay on man / Alexander Pope

True enough: to the physicist / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

About Planck time / George Bradley

Observatory ode / John Frederick Nims

Philosophy and science

Nature of science / Isaac Asimov

Art of discovery / Horace Freeland Judson

Structure of scientific revolutions / Thomas S Kuhn

Logic of scientific discovery / Karl Popper

Causality and complementarity / Niels Bohr

from Letters to Max Born / Albert Einstein

Black magic and white magic / Jacob Bronowski

Positivism, metaphysics, and religion / Werner Heisenberg

Science and religion / Albert Einstein

Acknowledgments

Index.