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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 €

  • 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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    51,47 €

  • 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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    71,05 €

  • 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 Profiles
    Jeremy Bernstein
    What was Albert Einstein like as a person? How did J. Robert Oppenheimer’s religious background impact his scientific endeavors? Why did John Stewart Bell get into physics in the first place? Prolific science writer Jeremy Bernstein has followed up on his original Quantum Profiles, published in 1990, with seven added profiles: Wendell Furry, Philipp Frank, J. Robert Oppenheimer...
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    72,11 €

  • 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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    56,87 €

  • 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 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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    84,25 €

  • 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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    62,20 €

  • 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 €

  • CHORUS OF BELLS AND OTHER SCIENTIFIC INQUIRIES, A
    BERNSTEIN JEREMY / Jeremy Bernstein
     This book of essays in four parts, was written over a decade and full of surprises for the breadth and variety of its subject matter. The first part is about the foundations of the quantum theory which reflects the author's many conversations with the late John Bell who persuaded him that there is still no satisfactory interpretation of the theory. The second part deals wi...
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    39,16 €

  • 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 €

  • Physicists on Wall Street and Other Essays on Science and Society
    Jeremy Bernstein
    Over the years, Jeremy Bernstein has been in contact with many of the world’s most renowned physicists and other scientists, many of whom were involved in politics, literature, and language. In this diverse collection of essays, he reflects on their work, their personal relationships, their motives, and their contributions. Even for those people he wr...
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    34,64 €

  • Secrets of the Old One
    Jeremy Bernstein
    Makes these ideas accessible to a general reader complex concepts of relativity and the stimulated emission of light through the use of mathematics no more difficult than one learns in high school. Written by a noted and successful science writer.  Noted science writer Jeremy Bernstein tells the remarkable story of Einstein’s papers and their impact o...
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    44,42 €

  • 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 €

  • Dawning of the Raj
    Jeremy Bernstein
    Nothing in the history of empire is stranger than the creation of British rule in India, where a small European island became master of a subcontinent ranging from the Indian Ocean to the Himalayas. In the late 18th century the person most responsible for this was Warren Hastings, Britain’s first governor-general of India. Jeremy Bernstein brings Hastings’s story vividly to lif...
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    37,84 €

  • A Theory for Everything
    Jeremy Bernstein
    '...heartily recommended as being as fine an example as one can hope to find of expository writing on science. The profiles of the giants of modern science, not to mention the wonderful accounts of earlier titans of physics, certainly make the book a best-buy on the popular science shelf.' -NEW SCIENTIST'an eclectic collection of essays...a well writt...
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    34,00 €

  • Kinetic Theory in the Expanding Universe
    Bernstein Jeremy / Jeremy Bernstein
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    133,31 €