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Häftad, Engelska, 2016
163 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2022
134 kr
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One of our great contemporary scientists reveals the ten profound insights that illuminate what everyone should know about the physical worldIn Fundamentals, Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek offers the reader a simple yet profound exploration of reality based on the deep revelations of modern science. With clarity and an infectious sense of joy, he guides us through the essential concepts that form our understanding of what the world is and how it works. Through these pages, we come to see our reality in a new way--bigger, fuller, and stranger than it looked before.Synthesizing basic questions, facts, and dazzling speculations, Wilczek investigates the ideas that form our understanding of the universe: time, space, matter, energy, complexity, and complementarity. He excavates the history of fundamental science, exploring what we know and how we know it, while journeying to the horizons of the scientific world to give us a glimpse of what we may soon discover. Brilliant, lucid, and accessible, this celebration of human ingenuity and imagination will expand your world and your mind.
Inbunden, Svenska, 2022
204 kr
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Nobelpristagaren Frank Wilczeks hyllning till vetenskapens uppfinningsrikedom och människans geni är berättelsen om allt vi vet och allt vi står inför att lära oss om vår verklighet. Det är briljant, klarsynt och tillgänglig populärvetenskap när den är som bäst. Och den kommer att göra din värld så mycket större.
Fysikpristagaren Frank Wilczek tar läsaren med på en enkel men samtidigt djuplodande undersökning av verkligheten med utgångspunkt i de revolutionerande upptäckter som den moderna vetenskapen gjort genom historien. Med smittande glädje och passion för fysiken guidar han oss genom de grundläggande idéer som formar vår förståelse av vad världen är och hur den fungerar. Sida för sida öppnar sig vår verklighet på ett helt nytt sätt för läsaren och framstår i Wilczeks nästan poetiska språk större, rikare och märkvärdigare än den någonsin varit.
Genom att kombinera de mest grundläggande frågorna med vetenskapliga fakta och fascinerande spekulationer undersöker Frank Wilczek idéerna som formar hela vår kunskap om universum: tid, rymd, materia, energi, komplexitet och komplementaritet. Lustfyllt tar han oss med genom vetenskapshistorien och berättar om hur nytänkande vetenskapspersoner som Galileo, Kepler och Newton steg för steg flyttade fram gränsen för vad vi vet, och hur de gjorde det. Hans berättelse leder oss ända fram till dagens vetenskapliga horisont och spanar nyfiket bortom den för att visa några av de nya genombrott som snart kan komma.
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En vacker och inbjudande sammanfattning av vår fysiska verklighets grundläggande fakta. Steven Pinker, forskare och författare
I sin medryckande och lättfattliga bok visar Frank Wilczek hur den moderna vetenskapens väldiga byggnad konstruerades av några få grundläggande byggstenar, men att den aldrig skulle ha bivit så imponerande stor utan ett alldeles speciellt sätt att tänka om vetenskapliga belägg och hur de kan användas för att förstå världen omkring oss. Alla som är intresserade av grunderna till dagens avancerade vetenskap kommer att njuta av denna bok. Venki Ramakrishnan, kemipristagare
E-bok
Engelska, 2009105 kr
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What's the meaning of it all? Or rather: what exactly is 'it'? Here Frank Wilczek, Nobel Prize-winning physicist and legend, examines the very nature of reality itself, showing how almost everything we think we know about 'it' is wrong.The Lightness of Being is an engaging tour de force, revealing a universe where matter is the hum of strange music, mass doesn't weigh, and empty space is a multilayered, multicoloured superconductor. Physicists' understanding of the essential nature of reality changed radically over the past quarter century. And Frank Wilczek has played a lead role in establishing the new paradigms. Transcending the clash and mismatch of older ideas about what matter and space is, Wilczek presents some brilliant and clear syntheses. Extraordinarily readable and authoritative, The Lightness of Being is the first book to unwrap these exciting new ideas for the general public. It explores their implications for basic questions about space, mass, energy, and the longed-for possibility of a fully unified theory of Nature. Pointing to new directions where great discoveries in fundamental physics are likely, and providing a visionary context for the experiments in CERN, he envisions a new Golden Age in physics.
E-bok
Engelska, 2021118 kr
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One of our great contemporary scientists reveals the ten profound insights that illuminate what everyone should know about the physical worldIn Fundamentals, Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek offers the reader a simple yet profound exploration of reality based on the deep revelations of modern science. With clarity and an infectious sense of joy, he guides us through the essential concepts that form our understanding of what the world is and how it works. Through these pages, we come to see our reality in a new way--bigger, fuller, and stranger than it looked before.Synthesizing basic questions, facts, and dazzling speculations, Wilczek investigates the ideas that form our understanding of the universe: time, space, matter, energy, complexity, and complementarity. He excavates the history of fundamental science, exploring what we know and how we know it, while journeying to the horizons of the scientific world to give us a glimpse of what we may soon discover. Brilliant, lucid, and accessible, this celebration of human ingenuity and imagination will expand your world and your mind.
Häftad, Engelska, 2012
549 kr
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Radioactive Transformations describes Ernest Rutherford’s Nobel Prize-winning investigations into the mysteries of radioactive matter. In this historic work, Rutherford outlines the scientific investigations that led to and coincided with his own research—including the work of Wilhelm Rӧntgen, J. J. Thomson, and Marie Curie—and explains in detail the experiments that provided a glimpse at special relativity, quantum mechanics, and other concepts that would shape modern physics.This new edition features a comprehensive introduction by Nobel Laureate Frank Wilczek which engagingly explains how Rutherford's early research led to a better understanding of topics as diverse as the workings of the atom’s nucleus, the age of our planet, and the fusion in stars.
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
336 kr
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Our understanding of nature's deepest reality has changed radically, but almost without our noticing, over the past twenty-five years. Transcending the clash of older ideas about matter and space, acclaimed physicist Frank Wilczek explains a remarkable new discovery: matter is built from almost weightless units, and pure energy is the ultimate source of mass. He calls it The Lightness of Being." Space is no mere container, empty and passive. It is a dynamic Grid,a modern ether, and its spontaneous activity creates and destroys particles. This new understanding of mass explains the puzzling feebleness of gravity, and a gorgeous unification of all the forces comes sharply into focus. The Lightness of Being is the first book to explore the implications of these revolutionary ideas about mass, energy, and the nature of empty space." In it, Wilczek masterfully presents new perspectives on our incredible universe and envisions a new golden age of fundamental physics.
Häftad, Engelska, 2016
161 kr
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A Nobel Prize-winning physicist argues that beauty is the fundamental organizing principle for the entire universeIn this scientific tour de force, world-class physicist Frank Wilczek argues that beauty is at the heart of the logic of the universe. As the quest to find the beauty embodied in the universe has connected all scientific pursuit, from Pythagoras to Einstein, Wilczek shows us just how deeply intertwined our ideas about beauty and art are with our understanding of the cosmos. A Beautiful Question is a mind-expanding book combining the age-old human quest for beauty with the age-old human quest for truth.
Häftad, Engelska, 2022
141 kr
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E-bok
Engelska, 2015122 kr
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In this scientific tour de force, world-class physicist Frank Wilczek argues that beauty is at the heart of the logic of the universe, a principle that has guided his pioneering work in quantum physics. As this book demonstrates, the human quest to find the beauty embodied in the universe connects all scientific pursuit from Pythagoras and Plato on to Galileo and Newton, Maxwell and Einstein. Indeed, Wilczek shows us just how deeply intertwined our ideas about beauty and art are with our scientific understanding of the cosmos. Gorgeously illustrated, A Beautiful Question is the culmination of Wilczek's life work and a mind-expanding book that combines the age-old human quest for beauty and the age-old human quest for truth.
Inbunden, Tyska, 2021
159 kr
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E-bok
Svenska169 kr
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Nobelpristagaren Frank Wilczeks hyllning till vetenskapens uppfinningsrikedom och människans geni är berättelsen om allt vi vet och allt vi står inför att lära oss om vår verklighet. Det är briljant, klarsynt och tillgänglig populärvetenskap när den är som bäst. Och den kommer att göra din värld så mycket större.Fysikpristagaren Frank Wilczek tar läsaren med på en enkel men samtidigt djuplodande undersökning av verkligheten med utgångspunkt i de revolutionerande upptäckter som den moderna vetenskapen gjort genom historien. Med smittande glädje och passion för fysiken guidar han oss genom de grundläggande idéer som formar vår förståelse av vad världen är och hur den fungerar. Sida för sida öppnar sig vår verklighet på ett helt nytt sätt för läsaren och framstår i Wilczeks nästan poetiska språk större, rikare och märkvärdigare än den någonsin varit.Genom att kombinera de mest grundläggande frågorna med vetenskapliga fakta och fascinerande spekulationer undersöker Frank Wilczek idéerna som formar hela vår kunskap om universum: tid, rymd, materia, energi, komplexitet och komplementaritet. Lustfyllt tar han oss med genom vetenskapshistorien och berättar om hur nytänkande vetenskapspersoner som Galileo, Kepler och Newton steg för steg flyttade fram gränsen för vad vi vet, och hur de gjorde det. Hans berättelse leder oss ända fram till dagens vetenskapliga horisont och spanar nyfiket bortom den för att visa några av de nya genombrott som snart kan komma.Sagt om boken:En vacker och inbjudande sammanfattning av vår fysiska verklighets grundläggande fakta. Steven Pinker, forskare och författareI sin medryckande och lättfattliga bok visar Frank Wilczek hur den moderna vetenskapens väldiga byggnad konstruerades av några få grundläggande byggstenar, men att den aldrig skulle ha bivit så imponerande stor utan ett alldeles speciellt sätt att tänka om vetenskapliga belägg och hur de kan användas för att förstå världen omkring oss. Alla som är intresserade av grunderna till dagens avancerade vetenskap kommer att njuta av denna bok. Venki Ramakrishnan, kemipristagare
Del 10 - Series on Directions in Condensed Matter Physics
Fractional Statistics And Anyon Superconductivity
Inbunden, Engelska, 1990
2 315 kr
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The occurrence of fractional statistics has been discovered in more and more quantum field theory models, including some of the most geometrical and canonical ones. In a remarkable case, the fractional quantum statistics of quasiparticles in the fractional quantized Hall effect (FQHE) contributes to the understanding of states found there. Very recent work has indicated that similar possibilities arise for two-dimensional films in certain states of liquid 3He. Perhaps most exciting, although quite speculative at this moment, are recent attempts to apply fractional statistics to spin systems, and specifically to the behaviour of the 2-dimensional copper oxide layers that seem to be critical to the phenomenon of high-temperature superconductivity. It has recently been shown that fractional statistics automatically implies superconductivity of a qualitatively new kind. This collection of reprints with comprehensive commentary will serve as a valuable reference for those interested in the subject but have found it difficult to acquire basic knowledge, or a coherent view of the whole, due to the scattered literature available at present.
Del 10 - Series on Directions in Condensed Matter Physics
Fractional Statistics And Anyon Superconductivity
Häftad, Engelska, 1990
648 kr
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The occurrence of fractional statistics has been discovered in more and more quantum field theory models, including some of the most geometrical and canonical ones. In a remarkable case, the fractional quantum statistics of quasiparticles in the fractional quantized Hall effect (FQHE) contributes to the understanding of states found there. Very recent work has indicated that similar possibilities arise for two-dimensional films in certain states of liquid 3He. Perhaps most exciting, although quite speculative at this moment, are recent attempts to apply fractional statistics to spin systems, and specifically to the behaviour of the 2-dimensional copper oxide layers that seem to be critical to the phenomenon of high-temperature superconductivity. It has recently been shown that fractional statistics automatically implies superconductivity of a qualitatively new kind. This collection of reprints with comprehensive commentary will serve as a valuable reference for those interested in the subject but have found it difficult to acquire basic knowledge, or a coherent view of the whole, due to the scattered literature available at present.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2006
1 282 kr
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With a contribution from Betsy DevineThe fantastic reality that is modern physics is open for your exploration, guided by one of its primary architects and interpreters, Nobel Prize winner Frank Wilczek.Some jokes, some poems, and extracts from wife Betsy Devine's sparkling chronicle of what it's like to live through a Nobel Prize provide easy entertainment. There's also some history, some philosophy, some exposition of frontier science, and some frontier science, for your lasting edification.49 pieces, including many from Wilczek's award-winning Reference Frame columns in Physics Today, and some never before published, are gathered by style and subject into a dozen chapters, each with a revealing, witty introduction.Profound ideas, presented with style: What could be better? Enjoy.
Häftad, Engelska, 2006
450 kr
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With a contribution from Betsy DevineThe fantastic reality that is modern physics is open for your exploration, guided by one of its primary architects and interpreters, Nobel Prize winner Frank Wilczek.Some jokes, some poems, and extracts from wife Betsy Devine's sparkling chronicle of what it's like to live through a Nobel Prize provide easy entertainment. There's also some history, some philosophy, some exposition of frontier science, and some frontier science, for your lasting edification.49 pieces, including many from Wilczek's award-winning Reference Frame columns in Physics Today, and some never before published, are gathered by style and subject into a dozen chapters, each with a revealing, witty introduction.Profound ideas, presented with style: What could be better? Enjoy.
Inbunden, Engelska, 1989
1 407 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 1989
648 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 1989
158 kr
Tillfälligt slut
Devoted to sharing their own delight and awe before the fundamental mysteries of the cosmos, Frank Wilczek (winner of the 2004 Nobel Prize in Physics) and science writer Betsy Devine also have a serious purpose: to reveal to the lay reader how a heightened perception can respond to timeless themes of the physical universe. For example, they show that even the most exotic theories always confirm that physical laws are precisely the same throughout the universe, and they explain how we have learned that the most massive molten stars and the tiniest frozen particles are in physical harmony. In their descriptions of the workings of the half-known universe, Wilczek and Devine bring all of us face to face with the beauty of eternal order and the inevitability of rational ends and beginnings.