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A complete overview of quantum mechanics, covering essential concepts and results, theoretical foundations, and applications. This undergraduate textbook offers a comprehensive …
The life and work of Freeman Dyson--renowned scientist, visionary, and iconoclast--and his particular way of thinking about deep questions. Freeman Dyson (1923-2020)--renowned …
From the very first moments of the universe to the birth of the first star, our solar system, and our planet: a physicist traces the known and the unknown. Since the beginning of …
The fascinating story of science in pursuit of the ghostly, ubiquitous subatomic particle--the neutrino. Isaac Asimov once observed of the neutrino: "The only reason scientists …
How the monsters of nineteenth-century literature and science came to define us. "Was I then a monster, a blot upon the earth, from which all men fled and whom all men disowned?" …
An account of Max Planck's construction of his theory of blackbody radiation, summarizing the established physics on which he drew. In the last year of the nineteenth century, Max …
The remarkable story of how humankind discovered gravitational waves, chronicled with unparalleled historical and scientific vision. In 2016, the LIGO and Virgo Collaborations made …