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One Two Three Infinity : Facts & Speculations of Science
Nuclear physicist George Gamow takes the reader on an expedition through the problems, pleasures and puzzles of modern science. Among the topics scrutinized are the macrocosm and the microcosm, theory of numbers, relativity of space and time, entropy, genes, atomic structure, nuclear fission, and...
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New York
Dover Publications Inc.
1988
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Table of Contents:
- Playing with numbers. Big numbers ; Natural and artificial numbers
- Space, time & Einstein. Unusual properties of space ; The world of four dimensions ; Relativity of space and time
- Microcosmos. Descending staircase ; Modern alchemy ; The law of disorder ; The riddle of life
- Macrocosmos. Expanding horizons ; The days of creation.