One, two, three infinity : facts and speculations of science / [by] George Gamow

By:

Gamow, George, 1904-1968

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: ENG Publication details: New York : Dover Publication, c1961Description: xii, 340 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780486450841 (pbk. ):

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

23rd 500 GAM/O

LOC classification:

Q162 .G23 1977

Summary: 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 the origin of the solar system. In the pages of this book readers grapple with such crucial matters as whether it is possible to bend space, why a rocket shrinks, the "end of the world problem," excursions in the fourth dimension and a host of other topics.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Notes	Barcode
Gift Books	Vigyanpuri Campus	500 GAM (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	Reverse side printing on a few pages.	G-00109
Books	Vigyanpuri Campus Biology	500 GAM/O (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		002587
Books	Vigyanpuri Campus Biology	500 GAM/O (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		002534

Includes index.

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Reprint of the 1961 ed. published by Viking Press, New York, in series: Viking explorer books.

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 the origin of the solar system. In the pages of this book readers grapple with such crucial matters as whether it is possible to bend space, why a rocket shrinks, the "end of the world problem," excursions in the fourth dimension and a host of other topics.

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