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A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines by Janna Levin
Category: Warehouse Specials
This is a remarkable fiction debut from a young female physicist obsessed with two giants of twentieth century science: Kurt Godel, the greatest logician of the age, and Alan Turing, the breaker of the Enigma code. Janna Levin tells their parallel lives in a haunting story of tortured genius, persecutio ...Show more
A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines by Janna Levin
Category: Fiction
This is a remarkable fiction debut from a young female physicist obsessed with two giants of twentieth century science: Kurt Godel, the greatest logician of the age, and Alan Turing, the breaker of the Enigma code. Janna Levin tells their parallel lives in a haunting story of tortured genius, persecutio ...Show more
Black Hole Blues & Other Songs/Outer Spa by Janna Levin
Category: Science
The full inside story of the detection of gravitational waves at LIGO, one of the most ambitious feats in scientific history. Travel around the world 100 billion times. A strong gravitational wave will briefly change that distance by less than the thickness of a human hair. We have perhaps less than a f ...Show more
Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space by Janna Levin
Category: Science
The full inside story of the detection of gravitational waves at LIGO, one of the most ambitious feats in scientific history. Travel around the world 100 billion times. A strong gravitational wave will briefly change that distance by less than the thickness of a human hair. We have perhaps less than a f ...Show more
Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space by Janna Levin
Category: Science
"This is empirical poetry. A fascinating tale of human curiosity beautifully told, and with black holes and lasers too." (Robin Ince). Travel around the world 100 billion times. A strong gravitational wave will briefly change that distance by less than the thickness of a human hair. We have perhaps less ...Show more
Black Hole Survival Guide by Janna Levin
Category: Science
From the acclaimed author of Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space--an authoritative and accessible guide to the most alluring and challenging phenomena of contemporary science.Through her writing, astrophysicist Janna Levin has focused on making the science she studies not just comprehensib ...Show more
Black Hole Survival Guide by Janna Levin
Category: Science
A very short book for readers of Carlo Rovelli that explains the science of Black Holes by taking the reader on a journey inside oneWhat would happen if you fell into a Black Hole?Black holes are found throughout the universe. They can be microscopic. They can be billions of times larger than our Sun. T ...Show more
How the Universe Got Its Spots - Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space by Janna Levin (Contribution by)
Category: Maths Physics Chemistry
Is the universe infinite or just really big? With this question, cosmologist Janna Levin announces the central theme of this book, which established her as one of the most direct, unorthodox, and creative voices in contemporary science. As Levin sets out to determine how big "really big" may be, she off ...Show more
How the Universe Got Its Spots : Diary of a Finite Time in a Finite Space by Janna Levin
Category: Science
From a brilliant and charismatic physicist comes this remarkably lucid tour of the cosmos that mingles engaging personal memoir with a stimulating account of her pioneering investigations. "Is the universe infinite or just really big?" With this question, the gifted young cosmologist Janna Levin not onl ...Show more
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