Автор:G.Gamow Год: 2012 Издание:
Книга по Требованию Страниц: 365 ISBN: 9785885073738 One Two Three... Infinity, subtitled Facts and Speculations of Science, was originally written by George Gamow in 1947 and then revised somewhat in 1961. It's an amazing tour of some of the more interesting bits of physics, with a bit of mathematics and biology thrown in, covering in some depth more separate topics in under 350 pages of any non-fiction book I can recall. I'm not sure how old I was when I first read this book, but I doubt I was more than eight and I know for certain that I was younger than twelve. I read and re-read it many times up through college and even gave copies of it to friends. It's been republished in various editions and appears to still be in print from Dover (the second copy that I own), but for the sake of this review, I re-read my original Bantam paperback. It's ragged, the cover is a bit torn, and it's full of underlining where I marked particularly interesting sections. Seeing what I decided to underline twenty years ago is part of the nostalgia.Even...