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  • A Bouquet of Dyson
    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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    35,12 €

  • The Spaceship Orion and Other Scientific Explorations
    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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    30,08 €

  • The Spaceship Orion and Other Scientific Explorations
    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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    54,54 €

  • A Song for Molly
    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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    70,52 €

  • A Song for Molly
    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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    34,99 €

  • Quantum Leaps
    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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    59,56 €

  • Quantum Leaps
    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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    31,40 €

  • A Bouquet of Dyson
    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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    82,95 €

  • A BOUQUET OF NUMBERS AND OTHER SCIENTIFIC OFFERINGS
    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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    70,80 €

  • A BOUQUET OF NUMBERS AND OTHER SCIENTIFIC OFFERINGS
    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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    35,27 €

  • A Chorus of Bells and Other Scientific Inquiries
    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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    44,08 €

  • Nuclear Weapons
    Jeremy Bernstein
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    38,08 €

  • Oppenheimer
    Jeremy Bernstein
    A study of the great nuclear physicist is an intensely interesting biographical profile, both personal and historical, Oppenheimer brings the reader close to the life and workings of an extraordinary and controversial man. an extraordinary and controversial man. ...
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    12,88 €

  • Kinetic Theory in the Expanding Universe
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    70,70 €

  • 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 €

  • Kinetic Theory in the Expanding Universe
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    156,67 €