Binding: Hardcover
Description: A collection of offbeat entertaining and primarily nontechnical essays on physics and those who practice it from eminent theoretical physicist N. David Mermin. Bringing together for the first time all thirty of his columns published in Physics Today's Reference Frame series from 1988 to 2009, with updating commentary this humorous and unusual volume includes thirteen other essays many of them previously unpublished. Mermin's lively and penetrating writing illuminates a broad range of topics from the implications of bad spelling in a major science journal to the crises of science libraries and scientific periodicals the folly of scientific prizes and honors the agony of getting funding and how to pronounce 'quark'. His witty observations and insightful anecdotes gleaned from a lifetime in science will entertain physicists at all levels as well as anyone else interested in science or scientists at the turn of the twenty - first century.
Title: Why Quark Rhymes With Pork And Other Scientific Diversions
Author(s): Mermin N. David (Cornell University New York)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Barcode: 9781107024304
Pages: 370 Pages, Worked Examples Or Exercises
Publication Date: 1/13/2016
Category: Physics