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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 |
| Sumario: | 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 with updating commentary, this humorous and original volume also includes thirteen new essays, many of them previously unpublished. Mermin's lively and penetrating writing illuminates a broad range of topics, from the implications of bad spelling in a major science journal, the crises of science libraries and scientific periodicals, and the folly of scientific prizes and honors, to the agony of getting funding and how to pronounce 'quark'. His witty observations and insightful anecdotes gleaned from a lifetime in science will appeal to physicists at all levels as well as anyone with an interest in science or scientists at the turn of the twenty-first century. |
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| Notas: | Brings together columns published in Physics Today, 1988-2009. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xiii, 391 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781139162579 1139162578 9781316476178 1316476170 9781316474853 1316474852 9781316471869 1316471861 9781316475843 1316475840 9781316474525 1316474526 1316473864 9781316473863 1316474194 9781316474198 |