Physicists on Wall Street and Other Essays on Science and Society

AvJeremy Bernstein

Inbunden, Engelska, 2008

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Dipping into this diverse collection of essays is like rummaging around in the mind of a genius who has a potpourri of interests. The author has not only has rubbed elbows with some of the finest minds in world, he has worked with them and played with them.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2008-08-19
Mått:155 x 235 x 14 mm
Vikt:419 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:182
Upplaga:2008
Förlag:Springer-Verlag New York Inc.
ISBN:9780387765051

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Populärvetenskap inom Naturvetenskap och teknik

Mer om författaren

Many readers will recognize Bernstein (Cranks, Quarks & the Cosmos, LJ 1/93) as the noted science essayist for the New Yorker for the past 30 years. He has also contributed essays to Scientific American and The Atlantic Monthly. He wrote A Theory for Everything (Copernicus, 1996) which collected some of his essays as well as Hitler's Uranium Club 2e (Copernicus, 1996) and Secrets of the Old One: Einstein, 1905 (Springer, 2006).

Innehållsförteckning

Economists.- Options.- Black-Scholes.- The Rise and Fall of the Quants.- Scientists.- Heisenberg in Poland.- The Orion.- Tales from South Africa.- A Nuclear Supermarket.- Ottavio Baldi: The Life and Times of Sir Henry Wotton.- Linguists.- The Spencers of Althorp and Sir William Jones: A Love Story.- All That Glitters.- In a Word, “Lions”.- Fiction and Stranger than Fiction.- The Pianist, Fiction and Non-fiction.- Rocket Science.- The Science of Michel Thomas.- Topology.- What the #$*!?.