What Is the Universe ? / Qu'est-ce que l'Univers ?: UTLS, volume 4

The most renowned French specialists in their fields have contributed to this fourth volume in the series. The present collection sheds light on the major issues raised by cosmology, the solar system, the stars and the galaxies, the earth, the oceans and the climate, matter and its organisation, complexity, chemical transformations and the development of mathematics.With contributions from Andr Ambles, Alain Aspect, Jean Audouze, Roger Balian, S bastien Balibar, Eva Bayer, Philippe Biane, Jean-Pierre Bibring, Michel Blay, Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, Andr Brahic, douard Brezin, Michel Campillo, Michel Cass , Patrick Chaquin, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Fran ois Combes, Alain Connes, Thibault Damour, Stanislas Dehaene, Ivar Ekeland, Hubert Flocard, Uriel Frisch, lisabeth Giacobino, Jean-Yves Girard, Henri Godfrin, Denis Gratias, tienne Guyon, Serge Haroche, Yves Hellegouarch, Claude Jaupart, Thierry Juteau, Jean-Pierre Kahane, Patrick de Kepper, tienne Klein, Marc Lachi ze-Rey, Jean-Louis Le Mouel, Xavier Le Pichon, Christian Le Provost, Michel Lesieur, Herv Le Treut, Jean-Pierre Lehn, Jacques Lewiner, Pierre-Louis Lions, Jean-Pierre Luminet, Jean-Paul Malrieu, Benoit Mandelbrot, Ghislain de Marsily, Jean-Louis Martin, Philippe Masson, Yves Meyer, Christian Minot, Jean-Fran ois Minster, Andr Neveux, Yves Petroff, Joel Picault, Marie Pil ni, Michel Pi cuch, Jim Ritter, Dimitri Rodichev, David Ruelle, Robert Sadourny, Olivier Talagrand, Catherine Thibault, Jacques Tits, Daniel Treille, Nguyen Trong Anh, Fran ois Vannucci, Sylvie Vauclair, Michel Verdaguer, Alfred Vidal-Madjar, Laurent Vigroux, Claude Weisbuch.