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- catalog contributor b2656976.
- catalog created "1990.".
- catalog date "1990".
- catalog date "1990.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1990.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references.".
- catalog description "Part I. Reflections on the Pursuit of Physics -- E. pluribus boojum: the physicist as neologist -- Commencement address, St. Johns College, Santa Fe, May 18, 1986 -- One of the great physicists ... and great characters -- My life with Landau -- What's wrong with this Lagrangean? -- What's wrong with this library? -- What's wrong with this prose? -- What's wrong with these equations? -- What's wrong with these prizes? -- Part II. The Quantum Theory -- Quantum mysteries for anyone -- Can you help your team tonight by watching on TV? -- Spooky actions at a distance: mysteries of the quantum -- A bolt from the blue: The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox -- The philosophical writings of Neils Bohr -- The great quantum muddle -- What's wrong with this pillow? -- Part III. Relativity -- Cruel nature: a relativistic tragicomedy -- The amazing many coloured relativity engine -- Relativistic addition of velocities directly from the constancy of the velocity of light -- Relativity without light -- E = Mc2 (written with M.J. Feigenbaum) Part IV Mathematical Musings -- Logarithms! -- Stirling's formula! -- Pi in the sky -- Variational principles in dynamics and quantum theory -- Special functions: a group theoretic approach.".
- catalog extent "xxi, 308 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0521382319".
- catalog identifier "0521388805 (pbk.)".
- catalog issued "1990".
- catalog issued "1990.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press,".
- catalog subject "530 20".
- catalog subject "Physics.".
- catalog subject "QC71 .M37 1990".
- catalog tableOfContents "Part I. Reflections on the Pursuit of Physics -- E. pluribus boojum: the physicist as neologist -- Commencement address, St. Johns College, Santa Fe, May 18, 1986 -- One of the great physicists ... and great characters -- My life with Landau -- What's wrong with this Lagrangean? -- What's wrong with this library? -- What's wrong with this prose? -- What's wrong with these equations? -- What's wrong with these prizes? -- Part II. The Quantum Theory -- Quantum mysteries for anyone -- Can you help your team tonight by watching on TV? -- Spooky actions at a distance: mysteries of the quantum -- A bolt from the blue: The Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox -- The philosophical writings of Neils Bohr -- The great quantum muddle -- What's wrong with this pillow? -- Part III. Relativity -- Cruel nature: a relativistic tragicomedy -- The amazing many coloured relativity engine -- Relativistic addition of velocities directly from the constancy of the velocity of light -- Relativity without light -- E = Mc2 (written with M.J. Feigenbaum) Part IV Mathematical Musings -- Logarithms! -- Stirling's formula! -- Pi in the sky -- Variational principles in dynamics and quantum theory -- Special functions: a group theoretic approach.".
- catalog title "Boojums all the way through : communicating science in a prosaic age / N. David Mermin.".
- catalog type "text".