Häftad, Engelska, 2018
Quantum Astrologer's Handbook
a history of the Renaissance mathematics that birthed imaginary numbers, probability, and the new physics of the universe
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A Daily Telegraph book of the year.This is a landmark in science writing that resurrects from the vaults of neglect the polymath Jerome Cardano, a Milanese of the sixteenth century. Who is he? A gambler and blasphemer, inventor and chancer, plagued by demons and anxieties, astrologer to kings, emperors, and popes, and the unacknowledged discoverer of the mathematical foundations of quantum physics. The Quantum Astrologer's Handbook, like Jerome, has multiple occupations: it is at once a biography, a history of science, an explanation of quantum theory, and an engrossing story which reads like the best kind of novel. It is a science book like no other about a scientist like no other.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum: 2018-09-13
- Mått: 128 x 196 x 18 mm
- Vikt: 246 g
- Format: Häftad
- Språk: Engelska
- Serie: Scribe
- Antal sidor: 256
- Förlag: Scribe Publications
- ISBN: 9781911617358
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Michael Brooks is a science writer with a PhD in quantum physics, and the author of several books, including the bestselling 13 Things That Don’t Make Sense and The Quantum Astrologer’s Handbook, a Daily Telegraph Book of the Year.
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‘Jerome Cardano is my all-time favourite mathematical rogue. Michael Brooks has brought him vividly to life in entertaining, informative, and highly original conversations about frontier physics, held across a gulf of centuries. A daring and successful experiment and a new kind of popular science writing.’
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