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Archimedes to Hawking : laws of science and the great minds behind them /
Archimedes to Hawking takes the reader on a journey across the centuries as it explores the eponymous physical laws--from Archimedes' Law of Buoyancy and Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and Hubble's Law of Cosmic Expansion--whose ramificati...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Archimedes to Hawking takes the reader on a journey across the centuries as it explores the eponymous physical laws--from Archimedes' Law of Buoyancy and Kepler's Laws of Planetary Motion to Heisenberg's Uncertainty Principle and Hubble's Law of Cosmic Expansion--whose ramifications have profoundly altered our everyday lives and our understanding of the universe. Throughout this fascinating book, Clifford Pickover invites us to share in the amazing adventures of brilliant, quirky, and passionate people after whom these laws are named. These lawgivers turn out to be a fascinating, diverse, and. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 514 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-503) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199714520 0199714525 9781435642133 1435642139 1281342300 9781281342300 9786611342302 6611342303 9780199792689 0199792682 |