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Mr Tompkins Learns the Facts of Life
George Gamow\'s first Tompkins book, Mr Tompkins in Wonderland, created a \'toy universe\' where, as his son comments in the preface to this 2010 reprint, \'the maximum speed of light is assumed to be 10 miles per hour, while all the laws of general relativity still hold\'....
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Cambridge
Cambridge University Press
2011
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Table of Contents:
- List of illustrations; Acknowledgements; 1. First dream: through the blood stream; 2. Second dream: Gene's piece of mind; 3. Third dream: brainy stuff; 4. The professor's lecture: the nature of life.