One, two, three-- infinity

Description

This wonderful book is an introduction to the relationship between mathematics and the physical world. It explains elements of quantum theory, relativity, and purer mathematics, in a way apprenendible by young or uninitiated readers. (It was a delightful eye-opener to many 8th graders, doomed to later become engineers and physists!)

Description

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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Other Editions

• One, two, three-- infinity: facts and speculations of scienceDover Publications1988-01-01
• One two three ... infinityViking Press1947-01-01
• One, two, three ... infinityViking Press1947-01-01
• One, two, three infinityNew American Library1957-01-01
• One two three-infinityViking Press1961-01-01
• One, two three ... infinityMacmillan1961-01-01