Seven brief lessons on physics
By: Carlo Rovelli ; translated by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre
Contributors: Carnell, Simon, 1962- translator; Segre, Erica, translator
Publisher: Riverhead Books
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 86
ISBN-13: 9780399184413
Subjects: Physics
Other titles: Sette brevi lezioni di fisica
Description: An introduction to modern physics by a founder of the loop quantum gravity theory shares seven succinct lessons on topics ranging from general relativity and quantum mechanics to elementary particles and black holes.
Notes: Originally published in Italian under the title Sette Brevi Lezioni di Fisica in 2014. Translated into English in 2015. -- From title page verso.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: The most beautiful of theories; title: Quanta; title: The architecture of the cosmos; title: Particles; title: Grains of space; title: Probability, time, and the heat of black holes; title: Ourselves.