N David Mermin: 4 books
It's About Time
Understanding Einstein's Relativity
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2009
In It's About Time, N. David Mermin asserts that relativity ought to be an important part of everyone's education--after all, it is largely about time, a subject with which all are familiar. The book reveals that some of our most intuitive notions about time are shockingly wrong, and that the real...
Why Quark Rhymes with Pork
And Other Scientific Diversions
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2016
A collection of offbeat, entertaining and primarily nontechnical essays on physics and those who practice it, from eminent theoretical physicist N. David Mermin. Bringing together for the first time all thirty of his columns published in Physics Today's Reference Frame series from 1988 to 2009, with...
Es ist an der Zeit
Einsteins Relativitätstheorie verstehen
Language: German
Release Date: August 31, 2015
Relativität ist ein Teil der Allgemeinbildung – davon ist der Autor N. David Mermin überzeugt, denn schließlich geht es um die Zeit, eine Sache, die nun wirklich jeder kennt. Mermins Zugang zum Thema ist sehr einfallsreich, aber dennoch exakt und vollständig. Diese gut lesbare Vorstellung der...
Quantum Computer Science
An Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2007
In the 1990's it was realized that quantum physics has some spectacular applications in computer science. This book is a concise introduction to quantum computation, developing the basic elements of this new branch of computational theory without assuming any background in physics. It begins with...