A collection of offbeat and entertaining primarily non-technical essays on physics and those who practice it, from well-known physicist N. David Mermin. These witty observations and humorous anecdotes will appeal to anyone with an interest in physical science or scientists at the turn of the twenty-first century.
A collection of offbeat and entertaining primarily non-technical essays on physics and those who practice it, from well-known physicist N. David Mermin. These witty observations and humorous anecdotes will appeal to anyone with an interest in physical science or scientists at the turn of the twenty-first century.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
N. David Mermin is Horace White Professor of Physics Emeritus at Cornell University. He is known throughout the scientific world as co-author of Solid State Physics, and for his columns in Physics Today. He was awarded the Julius Edgar Lilienfeld Prize of the American Physical Society for 'outstanding contributions to physics' in 1989, and is a member of the American Philosophical Society, the US National Academy of Sciences and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
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Part I. Reference Frame Columns Physics Today 1988-2009: 1. What's wrong with this Lagrangean? April 1988; 2. What's wrong with this library? August 1988; 3. What's wrong with these prizes? January 1989; 4. What's wrong with this pillow? April 1989; 5. What's wrong with this prose? May 1989; 6. What's wrong with these equations? October 1989; 7. What's wrong with these elements of reality? June 1990; 8. What's wrong with these reviews? August 1990; 9. What's wrong with those epochs? November 1990; 10. Publishing in computopia May 1991; 11. What's wrong with those grants June 1991; 12. What's wrong in computopia April 1992; 13. What's wrong with those talks? November 1992; 14. Two lectures on the wave-particle duality January 1993; 15. A quarrel we can settle December 1993; 16. What's wrong with this temptation June 1994; 17. What's wrong with this sustaining myth March 1996; 18. The golemization of relativity April 1996; 19. Diary of a Nobel guest March 1997; 20. What's wrong with this reading October 1997; 21. How not to create tigers August 1999; 22. What's wrong with this elegance? March 2000; 23. The contemplation of quantum computation July 2000; 24. What's wrong with these questions? February 2001; 25. What's wrong with this quantum world? February 2004; 26. Could Feynman have said this? May 2004; 27. My life with Einstein December 2005; 28. What has quantum mechanics to do with factoring? April 2007; 29. Some curious facts about quantum factoring October 2007; 30. What's bad about this habit May 2009; Part II. Shedding Bad Habits: 31. Fixing the shifty split Physics Today July 2012; 32. What I think about Now Physics Today March 2014; 33. Why QBism is not the Copenhagen interpretation lecture Vienna June 2014; Part III. More from Professor Mozart: 34. What's wrong with this book? Unpublished 1992; 35. What's wrong with these stanzas? Physics Today July 2007; Part IV. More to be said: 36. The complete diary of a Nobel guest unpublished 1996; 37. Elegance in physics unpublished lecture Minneapolis 1999; 38. Questions for 2105 unpublished lecture Zurich 2005; Part V. Some People I've Known: 39. My life with Fisher lecture Rutgers University 2001; 40. My life with Kohn 2003 updated 2013; 41. My life with Wilson lecture Cornell University 2014; 42. My life with Peierls unpublished lecture Santa Barbara 1997; Part VI. Summing It Up: 43. Writing physics lecture Cornell University 1999.
Part I. Reference Frame Columns Physics Today 1988-2009: 1. What's wrong with this Lagrangean? April 1988; 2. What's wrong with this library? August 1988; 3. What's wrong with these prizes? January 1989; 4. What's wrong with this pillow? April 1989; 5. What's wrong with this prose? May 1989; 6. What's wrong with these equations? October 1989; 7. What's wrong with these elements of reality? June 1990; 8. What's wrong with these reviews? August 1990; 9. What's wrong with those epochs? November 1990; 10. Publishing in computopia May 1991; 11. What's wrong with those grants June 1991; 12. What's wrong in computopia April 1992; 13. What's wrong with those talks? November 1992; 14. Two lectures on the wave-particle duality January 1993; 15. A quarrel we can settle December 1993; 16. What's wrong with this temptation June 1994; 17. What's wrong with this sustaining myth March 1996; 18. The golemization of relativity April 1996; 19. Diary of a Nobel guest March 1997; 20. What's wrong with this reading October 1997; 21. How not to create tigers August 1999; 22. What's wrong with this elegance? March 2000; 23. The contemplation of quantum computation July 2000; 24. What's wrong with these questions? February 2001; 25. What's wrong with this quantum world? February 2004; 26. Could Feynman have said this? May 2004; 27. My life with Einstein December 2005; 28. What has quantum mechanics to do with factoring? April 2007; 29. Some curious facts about quantum factoring October 2007; 30. What's bad about this habit May 2009; Part II. Shedding Bad Habits: 31. Fixing the shifty split Physics Today July 2012; 32. What I think about Now Physics Today March 2014; 33. Why QBism is not the Copenhagen interpretation lecture Vienna June 2014; Part III. More from Professor Mozart: 34. What's wrong with this book? Unpublished 1992; 35. What's wrong with these stanzas? Physics Today July 2007; Part IV. More to be said: 36. The complete diary of a Nobel guest unpublished 1996; 37. Elegance in physics unpublished lecture Minneapolis 1999; 38. Questions for 2105 unpublished lecture Zurich 2005; Part V. Some People I've Known: 39. My life with Fisher lecture Rutgers University 2001; 40. My life with Kohn 2003 updated 2013; 41. My life with Wilson lecture Cornell University 2014; 42. My life with Peierls unpublished lecture Santa Barbara 1997; Part VI. Summing It Up: 43. Writing physics lecture Cornell University 1999.
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