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Boojums All the Way Through: Communicating Science in a Prosaic Age
[Buy it!] | Mermin, N. David | USD 10.92
(Wed May 29 01:09:29 2024) | AbebooksAU | Wormhole Books | ISBN10: 0521388805, ISBN13: 9780521388801, [publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge] Softcover xxi, 308 pp. Extremely light wear to illustrated wraps. A few scuffs and stains to edges of text block. Creasing to upper corners of first few pages. Internally bright, unmarked and solidly bound. "Among other things, readers will encounter reflections on the style of doing physics and the problems encountered in writing about it, novel and elementary ways of demonstrating what is extraordinary about the quantum theory, a mock Shakespearean drama that states the essential character of relativity theory, an exuberant sermon on the rare delights to be found in computing the logarithm of 2, and the tale, from which the title of this book is drawn, of the adventures that befell the author when he set out to introduce the word 'boojum' into the technical lexicon of modern physics." Size: Octavo
[Kunyung, VIC, Australia] [Publication Year: 1990]
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