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Why quark rhymes with pork : and other scientific diversions /
A collection of offbeat and entertaining primarily non-technical essays on physics and those who practice it, from well-known theoretical physicist N. David Mermin. Bringing together for the first time thirty columns published in Physics Today's Reference Frame series from 1988 to 2009, along w...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2016.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- What's wrong with this Lagrangrean?, April 1988
- What's wrong with this library?, August 1988
- What's wrong with these prizes?, January 1989
- What's wrong with this pillow?, April 1989
- What's wrong with this prose?, May 1989
- What's wrong with these equations?, October 1989
- What's wrong with these elements of reality?, June 1990
- What's wrong with these reviews?, August 1990
- What's wrong with those epochs?, November 1990
- Publishing in Computopia, May 1991
- What's wrong with those grants?, June 1991
- What's wrong in Computopia, April 1992
- What's wrong with those talks?, November 1992
- Two lectures on the wave-particle duality, January 1993
- A quarrel we can settle, December 1993
- What's wrong with this temptation, June 1994
- What's wrong with this sustaining myth?, March 1996
- The golemization of relativity, April 1996
- Diary of a noble guest, March 1997
- What's wrong with this reading, October 1997
- How not to create tigers, August 1999
- What's wrong with this elegance?, March 2000
- The contemplation of quantum computation, July 2000
- What's wrong with these questions?, February 2001
- What's wrong with this quantum world?, February 2004
- Could Feynman have said this?, May 2004
- My life with Einstein, December 2005
- What has quantum mechanics to do with factoring?, April 2007
- Some curious facts about quantum factoring, October 2007
- What's bad about this habit, May 2009
- Fixing the shifty split, Physics Today, July 2012
- What I think about now, Physics Today, March 2014
- Why QBism is not the Copenhagen interpretation, lecture, Vienna, June 2014
- What's wrong with this book?, unpublished, 1992
- What's wrong with these stanzas?, Physics Today, July 2007
- The complete diary of a Nobel guest, unpublished, 1996
- Elegance in physics, unpublished lecture, Minneapolis, 1999
- Questions for 2015, unpublished lecture, Zurich, 2005
- My life with Fisher, lecture, Rutgers University, 2001
- My life with Kohn, 2003, updated 2013
- My life with Wilson, lecture, Cornell University, 2014
- My life with Peierls, unpublished lecture, Santa Barbara, 1997
- Writing physics, lecture, Cornell University, 1999.