Graham Farmelo: 3 books
The Universe Speaks in Numbers
How Modern Math Reveals Nature's Deepest Secrets
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2019
How math helps us solve the universe's deepest mysteries
One of the great insights of science is that the universe has an underlying order. The supreme goal of physicists is to understand this order through laws that describe the behavior of the most basic particles and the forces between them....
Churchill's Bomb
How the United States Overtook Britain in the First Nuclear Arms Race
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013
Perhaps no scientific breakthrough has shaped the course of human history as much as the harnessing of the atom. Yet the twentieth century might have turned out entirely differently had this powerful technology stayed under the control of Great Britain, whose scientists spearheaded the Allies' nuclear...
The Strangest Man
The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2009
Paul Dirac was among the great scientific geniuses of the modern age. One of the discoverers of quantum mechanics, the most revolutionary theory of the past century, his contributions had a unique insight, eloquence, clarity, and mathematical power. His prediction of antimatter was one of the greatest...