(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231224178)
Pierre Sokolsky provides a history of knowledge of the Sun through the lens of sunspots and the solar cycle, shedding new light on key discoveries and the people who made them....Loe edasi...
This book in a single contribution for the first time examines the historical development of the concepts of vortex, vorticity, knot, chirality, and helicity between 1517 and 1969. It considers their origins in early pictorial and conceptual studies...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009473507)
This personal account charts our understanding of the strong interactions in particle physics - culminating with the authors discovery of quarks, real particles living in a deeper layer of reality. Science buffs, students, and experts alike will fin...Loe edasi...
How key concepts in modern physics came from the work of a New Zealander whom Einstein labelled a second Newton. By the mid-nineteenth century, physicists believed they had discovered the last secrets of the universe. Then a ne...Loe edasi...
How the Einsteinian revolution can be understood as the result of a long-term evolution of science The revolution that emerged from Albert Einsteins work in the early twentieth century transformed our understanding of space, time, motion,...Loe edasi...
This book is a full, long-term history of relativity thinking in physics, from Galileos early reflections on the proper reference of mechanical motion to Einsteins exploitation of relativity principles in his theories of special and general relativ...Loe edasi...
Particles, Fields, Space-Time: From Thomsons Electron to Higgs Boson explores the concepts, ideas, and experimental results that brought us from the discovery of the first elementary particle in the end of the 19th century to the completion of the...Loe edasi...
Particles, Fields, Space-Time: From Thomson’s Electron to Higgs’ Boson explores the concepts, ideas, and experimental results that brought us from the discovery of the first elementary particle in the end of the 19th century to th...Loe edasi...
This book offers a captivating exploration of the intersection between mathematics, chaos theory, and dynamical systems through the personal journeys of twelve renowned mathematicians and physicists from China, Europe, Russia, and the USA....Loe edasi...
An in-depth look at all the science of sound and all the ways we use sound in the world!What role does sound play in your world?Sound: Pitch, Volume, Music, and Noise with Hands-On Science Activities for Kids...Loe edasi...
With hands-on STEM activities, essential questions and text-to-world connections, this in-depth exploration of the science of sound presents an educational symphony as readers learn to identify the sounds around them as well as all the ways we use so...Loe edasi...
The thrilling and terrifying seventy-year story of the physics that deciphered the atom and created the hydrogen bomb Although Henri Becquerel didnt know it at the time, he changed history in 1895 when he left photographic plates and some uranium r...Loe edasi...
At long last, with sufficient technical details, emphasizing key historical moments, a book that develops all of fundamental modern theoretical physics from energy considerations in a compact form. Starting with a few electron-volts of atom...Loe edasi...
1905 is probably the best-known year in physics, since it was the year of the discovery of the special theory of relativity. For decades, historiography has told us that Albert Einstein, then a patent examiner in Bern, succeeded in developing this t...Loe edasi...
This richly illustrated chronology of physics contains more than 250 short, entertaining, and thought-provoking entries. In addition to exploring such engaging topics as dark energy, parallel universes, the Doppler effect, the God particle, and Maxwe...Loe edasi...
REVISED AND UPDATED EDITIONPhysics: An Illustrated History of the Foundations of Science follows famous scientists and other experts through the ages as they unravel the fabric of the universe to reveal the array of fundamental f...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Oct-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231202480)
The sun has been worshiped as a deity in many cultures, for giving life and light. In medieval times in Russia, China, and Korea, occasional observations of dark spots on the sun were recorded and interpreted as omens of instability, or as harbinger...Loe edasi...
This book offers an up-to-date insight into the early philosophical debate on Einsteinian relativity. The essays explore the reception and interpretation of Einstein’s ideas by some of the most important philosophical schools of the time, such as log...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Sep-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031261732)
The book gathers several contributions by historians of physics, philosophers of science and scientists as new essays in the history of physics ranging across the entire field, related in most instances to the works of Salvo DAgostino (1921-2020)...Loe edasi...
Developing a reading of modernist poetics centred on the three-way relationship between literature, modern physics and avant-garde art movements, this book focuses on four key poets – William Carlos Williams, Mina Loy, the Baroness Elsa von Freyta...Loe edasi...
Amnon Aharony, Ora Entin-wohlman, David A Huse, Leo Radzihovsky
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Aug-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, ISBN-13: 9789811282379)
The contributions in the book are devoted to the memory of Michael E Fisher, and hence include many personal memories from people whose work was influenced by him. Also, the book is a collection of articles from leaders in the field of phase transit...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 18-Jul-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009479288)
Who were the German scientists who worked on atomic bombs during World War II for Hitlers regime? And how did they justify themselves afterwards? Examining the global influence of the German uranium project and the postwar reaction to the scientist...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Jul-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198878681)
Focusing on the history of the International Union of Pure and Applied Physics following its centenary, this book provides a novel and unique perspective on the interrelation of science and politics in international arenas and describes the attempts...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 19-Jun-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197678954)
Katherine Brading and Marius Stan provide a new framing of natural philosophy and its transformations in the Enlightenment and propose an account of how physics and philosophy evolved into distinct fields of inquiry....Loe edasi...
This book is an essential read for everyone who is curious about how we humans came to exist and interested in understanding the science and social evolution that enabled us to establish that a Big Bang actually happened. The text uniquely explain...Loe edasi...
Considering how math can drive and sometimes even anticipate discoveries in physics, one of the world’s preeminent mathematicians examines such phenomena as black holes, gravitational waves and the Big Bang, offering an eye-opening look into the powe...Loe edasi...
This book argues that Descartes’ physics was a milestone on the road to modern mathematical physics. After Newton introduced a completely different approach to mathematical description of motion, Descartes’ physics became obsolete and even difficu...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 20-Apr-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031511981)
At long last, with sufficient technical details, emphasizing key historical moments, a book that develops all of fundamental modern theoretical physics from energy considerations in a compact form. Starting with a few electron-volts of atom...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Apr-2024, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031513862)
1905 is probably the best-known year in physics, since it was the year of the discovery of the special theory of relativity. For decades, historiography has told us that Albert Einstein, then a patent examiner in Bern, succeeded in developing this t...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Jun-2026, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Columbia University Press, ISBN-13: 9780231224178)
Pierre Sokolsky provides a history of knowledge of the Sun through the lens of sunspots and the solar cycle, shedding new light on key discoveries and the people who made them....Loe edasi...
This book in a single contribution for the first time examines the historical development of the concepts of vortex, vorticity, knot, chirality, and helicity between 1517 and 1969. It considers their origins in early pictorial and conceptual studies...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 16-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781009473507)
This personal account charts our understanding of the strong interactions in particle physics - culminating with the authors discovery of quarks, real particles living in a deeper layer of reality. Science buffs, students, and experts alike will fin...Loe edasi...
How key concepts in modern physics came from the work of a New Zealander whom Einstein labelled a second Newton. By the mid-nineteenth century, physicists believed they had discovered the last secrets of the universe. Then a ne...Loe edasi...
How the Einsteinian revolution can be understood as the result of a long-term evolution of science The revolution that emerged from Albert Einsteins work in the early twentieth century transformed our understanding of space, time, motion,...Loe edasi...
This book is a full, long-term history of relativity thinking in physics, from Galileos early reflections on the proper reference of mechanical motion to Einsteins exploitation of relativity principles in his theories of special and general relativ...Loe edasi...
Particles, Fields, Space-Time: From Thomsons Electron to Higgs Boson explores the concepts, ideas, and experimental results that brought us from the discovery of the first elementary particle in the end of the 19th century to the completion of the...Loe edasi...
Particles, Fields, Space-Time: From Thomson’s Electron to Higgs’ Boson explores the concepts, ideas, and experimental results that brought us from the discovery of the first elementary particle in the end of the 19th century to th...Loe edasi...
This book offers a captivating exploration of the intersection between mathematics, chaos theory, and dynamical systems through the personal journeys of twelve renowned mathematicians and physicists from China, Europe, Russia, and the USA....Loe edasi...
An in-depth look at all the science of sound and all the ways we use sound in the world!What role does sound play in your world?Sound: Pitch, Volume, Music, and Noise with Hands-On Science Activities for Kids...Loe edasi...
With hands-on STEM activities, essential questions and text-to-world connections, this in-depth exploration of the science of sound presents an educational symphony as readers learn to identify the sounds around them as well as all the ways we use so...Loe edasi...
The thrilling and terrifying seventy-year story of the physics that deciphered the atom and created the hydrogen bomb Although Henri Becquerel didnt know it at the time, he changed history in 1895 when he left photographic plates and some uranium r...Loe edasi...
At long last, with sufficient technical details, emphasizing key historical moments, a book that develops all of fundamental modern theoretical physics from energy considerations in a compact form. Starting with a few electron-volts of atom...Loe edasi...
1905 is probably the best-known year in physics, since it was the year of the discovery of the special theory of relativity. For decades, historiography has told us that Albert Einstein, then a patent examiner in Bern, succeeded in developing this t...Loe edasi...
This richly illustrated chronology of physics contains more than 250 short, entertaining, and thought-provoking entries. In addition to exploring such engaging topics as dark energy, parallel universes, the Doppler effect, the God particle, and Maxwe...Loe edasi...
REVISED AND UPDATED EDITIONPhysics: An Illustrated History of the Foundations of Science follows famous scientists and other experts through the ages as they unravel the fabric of the universe to reveal the array of fundamental f...Loe edasi...
