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Seven brief lessons on physics / Carlo Rovelli ; translated by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre.
- Title
- Seven brief lessons on physics / Carlo Rovelli ; translated by Simon Carnell and Erica Segre.
- Author
- Rovelli, Carlo, 1956-
- Publication
- New York, New York : Riverhead Books, 2016.
- ©2015
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- Description
- 86 pages : illustrations; 20 cm
- 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.
- Uniform Title
- Articles. Selections. English
- Alternative Title
- Articles.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
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- Popular works
- History.
- Popular works.
- Note
- Translation from the Italian of: Sette brevi lezioni di fisica.
- "English translation published in Great Britain by Allen Lane, an imprint of Penguin Random House UK"--Title page verso.
- Includes index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780399184413
- 0399184414
- OCLC
- 933728535
- SCSB-11120926
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library