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  • BOUQUET OF DYSON, A
    BERNSTEIN JEREMY / Jeremy Bernstein
    University of Texas at Austin My friendship with Freeman Dyson goes back over a half century. My first contact with him goes back to the late 1950s, when I was at the Institute for Advanced Study, and then evolved when I was a consultant at General Atomics in La Jolla, California. Freeman was then trying to design a space ship — the Orion — which would be propelled by atomic bo...
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    33,35 €

  • Oppenheimer
    Jeremy Bernstein
    In this biographical memoir, written by a former colleague, J. Robert Oppenheimer emerges as a man unsure of his identity and captive to an element of self-destructiveness in his makeup. Bernstein’s portrait brings the reader close to the life and workings of an extraordinary and controversial man. ...
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    20,65 €

  • SPACESHIP ORION AND OTHER SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATIONS, THE
    BERNSTEIN JEREMY / Jeremy Bernstein
    A curation of essays penned by Jeremy Bernstein, this book is a treasure trove of personal stories ranging from Bernstein’s expedition to Mount Everest, cherished encounters with the fathers of Quantum Mechanics (Werner Heisenberg, Paul Dirac and Erwin Schrodinger), to a jovial collaboration with Freeman Dyson on the Orion spaceship project.This essay collection is a door into ...
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    26,69 €

  • SONG FOR MOLLY, A
    BERNSTEIN JEREMY / Jeremy Bernstein
    A Song for Molly is both a love story and a poetic homage to science. The subjects in this first-person novella range from encounters with Wittgenstein, Einstein and Gödel, to trying to live with a dog named Molly. The science is serious although the tone is whimsical. The spirit of this book can be demonstrated by a conversation between Einstein and his assistant Ernst Straus:...
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    33,22 €

  • QUANTUM LEAPS
    BERNSTEIN JEREMY / Jeremy Bernstein
    In the early years of its conception, J Robert Oppenheimer spoke of quantum theory as a subject that was "unlikely to be known to any poet or historian." Yet, as Bernstein notes, in just sixty-odd years, one can find at least nine million entries on Google under the rubric "quantum theory" — from poets and historians, as well as film critics and Buddhist monks. How did quantum ...
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    32,09 €

  • BOUQUET OF NUMBERS AND OTHER SCIENTIFIC OFFERINGS, A
    BERNSTEIN JEREMY / Jeremy Bernstein
    "Some of the contents will be attractive to a broad readership, including application of game theory and misrepresentations of physics and physicists in popular culture."CHOICE Connect This book is an essay collection, along with short stories, which attempts to explain some scientific ideas.Jeremy Bernstein was a long time staff writer for The New Yorker Magazine as well as a ...
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    30,89 €

  • Secrets of the Old One
    Jeremy Bernstein
    Introduction: Einstein’s Miracle Year.- The Prehistory.- Einstein’s Theory of Relativity.- Do Atoms Exist?.- The Quantum.- Epilogue: Afterword. ...
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    35,91 €

  • Physicists on Wall Street and Other Essays on Science and Society
    Jeremy Bernstein
    Economists.- Options.- Black-Scholes.- The Rise and Fall of the Quants.- Scientists.- Heisenberg in Poland.- The Orion.- Tales from South Africa.- A Nuclear Supermarket.- Ottavio Baldi: The Life and Times of Sir Henry Wotton.- Linguists.- The Spencers of Althorp and Sir William Jones: A Love Story.- All That Glitters.- In a Word, 'Lions'.- Fiction and Stranger than Fiction.- Th...
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    42,10 €

  • Nuclear Weapons
    Jeremy Bernstein
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    43,00 €

  • Kinetic Theory in the Expanding Universe
    Bernstein Jeremy / Jeremy Bernstein
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    76,87 €

  • Hitler’s Uranium Club
    Jeremy Bernstein
    From April through December of 1945, ten of Nazi Germany’s greatest nuclear physicists were detained by Allied military and intelligence services in a kind of gilded cage at Farm Hall, an English country manor near Cambridge. The physicists knew the Reich had failed to develop an atomic bomb, and they soon learned, from a BBC radio report on August 6,...
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    47,58 €