A bouquet of numbers and other scientific offerings
By: Jeremy Bernstein, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA
Contributors: Stevens Institute of Technology
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9789814759779
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Science; Miscellanea
Description: "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 theoretical physicist. He has received several awards for his writing"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: A bouquet of numbers for Olivia; title: Was Einstein smart?; title: A love story; title: Deuteronomy; title: An unsolved mystery; title: Einstein and his teacher; title: Einstein versus Einstein; title: Wien's law; title: A quantum of education; title: Sommerfeld's footnote; title: Quantum mechanics; title: A song for Molly; title: A Schrödinger equation; title: The life of a cell; title: Who was Hall?; title: An encore song for Molly; title: Entropy; title: A letter to my fellow quantum mechanics.