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A Brief Guide to the Great Equations by Robert Crease
Category: Science | Series: Brief Histories Ser.
Here are the stories of the ten most popular equations of all time as voted for by readers of "Physics World", including - accessibly described here for the first time - the favourite equation of all, Euler's equation. Each is an equation that captures with beautiful simplicity what can only be describe ...Show more
GREAT EQUATIONS : BREAKTHROUGHS IN SCIEN by CREASE ROBERT P
Category: Science & Natural History
The Quantum Moment by Robert P. Crease
Category: Science & Natural History
Time travel, parallel worlds, random behaviour: the language and the imagery of quantum mechanics are ubiquitous, yet the science - and its journey into everyday language - still confounds us. Robert P. Crease and Alfred Scharff Goldhaber tell how a controversial idea from an obscure branch of optics gr ...Show more
The Quantum Moment: How Planck, Bohr, Einstein, and Heisenberg Taught Us to Love Uncertainty by Robert P. Crease
Category: Science
The discovery of the quantum—the idea, born in the early 1900s in a remote corner of physics, that energy comes in finite packets instead of infinitely divisible quantities—planted a rich set of metaphors in the popular imagination. Quantum imagery and language now bombard us like an endless stream of p ...Show more
WORKSHOP & THE WORLD WHAT TEN THINKERS CAN TEACH US ABOUT SCIENCE & AUTHORITY by CREASE ROBERT P
Category: Philosophy and Religion
When does a scientific discovery become accepted fact? Why have scientific facts become easy to deny? And what can we do about it? In The Workshop and the World, philosopher and science historian Robert P. Crease answers these questions by describing the origins of our scientific infrastructure--the "wo ...Show more
World in the Balance : The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement by Robert P. Crease
Category: Australian History
In this epic story of the invention of a global network of weights, scales and instruments for measurement, Robert P. Crease traces the evolution of the system, from the use of flutes to measure distance in the dynasties of ancient China and figurines to weigh gold in West Africa, to the creation of the ...Show more
World in the Balance: The Historic Quest for an Absolute System of Measurement by Robert P. Crease
Category: Science
In this epic story of the invention of a global network of weights, scales and instruments for measurement, Robert P. Crease traces the evolution of the system, from the use of flutes to measure distance in the dynasties of ancient China and figurines to weigh gold in West Africa, to the creation of the ...Show more
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