Longing for the Harmonies: Themes and Variations from Modern Physics
Language: English
Published by W.W. Norton, 1988
- First Edition
- Hardcover
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Seller: Callaghan Books South, New Port Richey, FL, U.S.A.Callaghan Books South
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(1st) Large, heavy book, dark gray cloth, very bright gilt lettering and red borders to spine, 361 pages with some illustrations throughout. DJ beneath mylar, glossy and colorfully designed with a color-illustration of science lab on front, white back with praise from K.C. Cole, Sam treiman and other physicists. DJ and book, both As New.
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- Title
- Longing for the Harmonies: Themes and Variations from Modern Physics
- Author
- Wilczek, Frank;Devine, Betsy
- Publisher
- W.W. Norton
- Publication year
- 1988
- Condition
- As New
- Dust jacket
- As New
- Binding
- Cloth
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0393024822
- ISBN 13
- 9780393024821
- Edition
- First Edition
- Seller catalogs
- Science
"Occasionally, there comes along a popular science book that both scientists and non-scientist can read with pleasure and profit, and this is one."―The New Yorker
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."Synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
About the Author
Betsy Devine writes about science and humor.
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Callaghan Books South
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