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Sun in a Bottle: The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking
Charles Seife
Viking Adult
, 2008
The author of Zero looks at the messy history of the struggle to harness fusion energy . When weapons builders detonated the first hydrogen bomb in 1952, they tapped into the vastest source of energy in our solar system--the very same phenomenon that makes the sun shine. Nuclear fusion was a virtually unlimited source of power that became the center of a tragic and comic quest that has left scores of scientists battered and disgraced. For ...
The Search for the Alpha and Omega
Charles Seife
Bantam Books
, 2004
Die Suche nach dem Anfang und Ende des Kosmos
Charles Seife
Berliner Taschenbuch Verl
, 2006
Tinto. Arbeitsheft Sprache.
Charles Seife
Cornelsen Verlag GmbH + C
, 2004
Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
129 reviews
Charles Seife
Penguin (Non-Classics)
, 2000
Highly Entertaining
I am a math teacher and read this book on recommendation from a fellow math teacher. The book is well-suited for high schoolers (as far as concepts go), but can also be used in middle school. I start by saying that I find history, even the history of math, fascinating; my emphasis in teaching is on the "why" and often times, that answer is found in history or in the field of ethnomathematics. Not ...
Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our ...
28 reviews
Charles Seife
Penguin (Non-Classics)
, 2007
Information theory, the third physics revolution of the XXth century
The author has a degree in probability theory and artificial intelligence, but he is a professor of journalism and has therefore written a book which is both very entertaining and not too difficult to understand. The subject is information, which Seife claims is the third XXth century revolution in physics started by Claude Shannon and which has relations with the other two: Relativity and ...
Alpha and Omega: The Search for the Beginning and End of the Universe
12 reviews
Charles Seife
Penguin (Non-Classics)
, 2004
This book is a good intro to cosmology and explains every discovery so far...
I like Seife's writing style. He wrote this book keeping in mind that 'regular' people will be reading it. He starts with the very first theorys on the universe and explains them in a way that slides right into to your mind like butter. The theorys are written chronologically and gradually get more complex as new things are discovered. He also describes these new discoveries chronologically and ...
ZERO: THE BIOGRAPHY OF A DANGEROUS IDEA
Charles Seife
Viking
, 2000
Zéro, la biographie d'une idée dangereuse
Charles Seife,
Catherine Blanchard-Maneval
Lattès
, 2002
Zwilling der Unendlichkeit. Eine Biographie der Zahl Null.
Charles Seife
Goldmann
, 2002
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