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The World Treasury of Physics Astronomy and Mathematics
Author: Timothy Ferris

In the recognition of our universal facination with the cosmos and worlds beyond our own, Timothy Ferris has assembled a provocative collection of some of the most eloquent and inspired science writing of our time, in the form of essays, articles, and poems penned by notables in the worlds of both science and literature. The astonishing cast of... more » more than sixty scientists and science commentators represented here provides thoughtful and lucid reflections on some of the major scientific topics of our time, from the minute to the grand - in short, all of the facts and mysteries that make up our universe, from artificial intelligence and the theory of chaos to black holes and galaxies. This unique book will delight the science enthusiast and the inquisitive general reader alike.

The works of such luminaries as Alber Einstein, Carl Sagan, Stephen W. Hawking, Jacob Bronowski, Emily Dickinson, Alan Lightman, Edwin Hubble, James Gleick, Walt Whitman, and Alan Turing are included, with many pieces artfully juxtaposed to explore several sides of such labyrinthine issues as the nature of time and space, the origin and structure of the universe, and the enigma and grandeur of pure mathematics. Also explored are the lives of scientists themselves: as Wheeler praises Einstein, Einstein pens tribute to Planck, and Mehra ponders Dirac, we become at once aware of science as a craft as well as an empirical ordering of facts and events. The breadth of these thoughtful musings is a potent affirmation of the pwer of the scientific way in our lives. As Ferris proclaims in his preface, "The delights of science and mathematics - their revelations of natural beauty and harmony, their visions of things to come...belong to the cultural heritage of the entire world, and to know something abbout them is to be acquainted with the finest new achievements of the human mind."

Timothy Ferris is the author of several critically acclaimed books on science, including The Red Limit, coming of Age in the Milky Way, and Galaxies. He is former editor for Rolling Stone and has written for Harper's, The New Yorker, The Nation, Reader's Digest, and the New York Times, among other periodicals. A Guggenheim Fellow, he has been nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, has twice received medals of the American Institute of Physics and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and is the recipient of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific's Krumpke-Roberts Prize for lifetime achievement in the popularization of astronomy. Currently Emeritus Professor in the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, he lives in Decatur, Alabama.

ISBN-13: 9780316071369
ISBN-10: 0316071366
Pages: 859
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Publisher: Back Bay Books
Book Type: Hardcover
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