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The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics: From Albert Einstein to Stephen W. Hawking and From Annie Dillard to John Updike - an ... Than 90 of This Century's Best-Known Writers [Paperback]

Timothy Ferris (Author)
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0316281336 978-0316281331 June 30, 1993
The most Eloquent and inspired scienc writing of our time.

An astonishing cast of more than ninety renowned writers provides thoughtful and lucid reflections on some of the major scentific topics of our time - from black holes and galaxies to artificial intelligence and chaos theory. Featuring essays, articles, and poems penned by notables in the worlds of both science and literature, this unique book will delight the science enthusiast and the inquisitive general reader alike.



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  • Paperback: 880 pages
  • Publisher: Back Bay Books (June 30, 1993)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0316281336
  • ISBN-13: 978-0316281331
  • Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.2 x 1.7 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.4 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #441,985 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars A Big Bang of information, July 27, 1998
This review is from: The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics: From Albert Einstein to Stephen W. Hawking and From Annie Dillard to John Updike - an ... Than 90 of This Century's Best-Known Writers (Paperback)
This book is obviously only geared towards those remotely interested in physics, so that's what it does: cater to the contemplative individual. Believe it or not, this collection of writings grabbed me from the first subtitle, 'Atoms in Motion', and literally propelled me through the next 800 pages of lectures and dissertations, ranging from Mr. Isaac Asimov to Albert Einstein. If you've been looking for a comprehensive and sometimes exhaustively extensive glimpse into the universe of physics and mathematics, Mr. Ferris' treasury will not disappoint. What's more, if you buy it here at Amazon, you definitely get every penny's worth. I mean, c'mon, 18 bucks? This sucker is hard-bound. Don't pass this one up.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A must read!, October 31, 1997
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This review is from: The World Treasury of Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics: From Albert Einstein to Stephen W. Hawking and From Annie Dillard to John Updike - an ... Than 90 of This Century's Best-Known Writers (Paperback)
This is a well-chosen collection of delightful writings, mostly written by scientists. In this book, one can learn the thought processes of great minds such as Feynman, Planck, Hardy, Turing, etc., in their own words. This reasonably-priced book will serve as a source of inspiration and ideas to an intelligent reader.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars This book was well worth both my time and money., July 27, 1999
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I loved this book. It brings together the writings of some of the worlds greatest minds on the subject of science. This is a most read.
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... IF, IN SOME cataclysm, all of scientific knowledge were to be destroyed, and only one sentence passed on to the next generations of creatures, what statement would contain the most information in the fewest words? Read the first page
Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
giant molecular complex, absolute event horizon, characteristic expansion time, apparent faintness, cosmical repulsion, discrete state machines, spiral features, percent neutrons, percent protons, observable region, comet showers, submicroscopic world, homologous core, neutral atomic hydrogen, primordial black holes, solar system condensed, elliptical space, new quantum theory, supernova rate, modular equations, loss cone, electromagnetic mass, imitation game, gauge particles, solar masses
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Milky Way, Los Alamos, New York, Nobel Prize, United States, Albert Einstein, Alan Turing, Mount Wilson, Niels Bohr, Stephen Hawking, Father Paulini, Isaac Newton, Max Planck, Oort Cloud, New Mexico, Robert Wilson, University of Chicago, Max Born, Abdus Salam, California Institute of Technology, Columbia University, Cosmic Censorship, Physical Review, Richard Feynman, Cambridge University
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