Boojums All the Way Through is a collection of essays which deals in a variety of ways with the problem of communicating modern physics to both physicists and non-physicists. The author, Professor David Mermin, finds startlingly simple ways of presenting ideas that are traditionally regarded as complex.
Boojums All the Way Through is a collection of essays which deals in a variety of ways with the problem of communicating modern physics to both physicists and non-physicists. The author, Professor David Mermin, finds startlingly simple ways of presenting ideas that are traditionally regarded as complex.
Preface Part I. Reflections on the Pursuit of Physics: 1. E. pluribus boojum: the physicist as neologist 2. Commencement address 3. One of the great physicists ... and great characters 4. My life with Landeau 5. What's wrong with this lagrangean? 6. What's wrong with this library? 7. What's wrong with this prose? 8. What's wrong with these equations? 9. What's wrong with these prizes? Part II. The Quantum Theory: 10. Quantum mysteries for anyone 11. Can you help your team tonight by watching on TV? 12. Spooky actions at a distance: mysteries of the quantum 13. A bolt from the blue: The Eistein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox 14. The philosophical writings of Neils Bohr 15. The great quantum muddle 16. What's wrong with this pillow? Part III. Relativity: 17. Cruel nature: a relativistic tragicomedy 18. The amazing many coloured relativity engine 19. Relativistic addition of velocities directly from the constancy of the velocity of light 20. Relativity without light 21. E = Mc2 (written with M. J. Feigenbaum) Part IV Mathematical Musings: 22. Logarithms! 23. Stirling's formula! 24. Pi in the sky 25. Variational principles in dynamics and quantum theory 26. Special functions: a group theoretic approach.
Preface Part I. Reflections on the Pursuit of Physics: 1. E. pluribus boojum: the physicist as neologist 2. Commencement address 3. One of the great physicists ... and great characters 4. My life with Landeau 5. What's wrong with this lagrangean? 6. What's wrong with this library? 7. What's wrong with this prose? 8. What's wrong with these equations? 9. What's wrong with these prizes? Part II. The Quantum Theory: 10. Quantum mysteries for anyone 11. Can you help your team tonight by watching on TV? 12. Spooky actions at a distance: mysteries of the quantum 13. A bolt from the blue: The Eistein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox 14. The philosophical writings of Neils Bohr 15. The great quantum muddle 16. What's wrong with this pillow? Part III. Relativity: 17. Cruel nature: a relativistic tragicomedy 18. The amazing many coloured relativity engine 19. Relativistic addition of velocities directly from the constancy of the velocity of light 20. Relativity without light 21. E = Mc2 (written with M. J. Feigenbaum) Part IV Mathematical Musings: 22. Logarithms! 23. Stirling's formula! 24. Pi in the sky 25. Variational principles in dynamics and quantum theory 26. Special functions: a group theoretic approach.
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