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The World treasury of physics, astronomy, and mathematics
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Little, Brown
Publication Date
[1991]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
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9780316071369
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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.
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