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Author Rovelli, Carlo, 1956- author.

Uniform Title Articles. Selections. English.
Title Seven brief lessons on physics / Carlo Rovelli ; translated by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre.

Publication Info. New York : Riverhead Books, 2016.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 PHS Non-Fiction  530 ROVELLI    ---  Available
Description 86 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
text txt rdacontent.
unmediated n rdamedia.
volume nc rdacarrier.
Note Includes index.
Contents The most beautiful of theories -- Quanta -- The architecture of the cosmos -- Particles -- Grains of space -- Probability, time, and the heat of black holes -- Ourselves.
Summary An introduction to modern physics by a founder of the loop quantum gravity theory shares seven succinct lessons on topics ranging from general relativity and quantum mechanics to elementary particles and black holes.
Source B&T 4.2016 PARS
Subject Physics.
Added Author Carnell, Simon, 1962- translator.
Segre, Erica, translator.
Added Title 7 brief lessons on physics.
Other Editions: Reproduction of (manifestation): Rovelli, Carlo, 1956- Seven brief lessons on physics. [London] : Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Books, 2015 9780241235966.
ISBN 9780399184413 (hardcover)
0399184414 (hardcover)

 
    
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