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Podcast of Frank Wilczek and Betsy Devine's interview with Steve Mirsky of Scientific American The fantastic reality that is modern physics is open for your exploration, guided by one of its primary architects and interpreters, Nobel Prize winner Frank Wilczek. Some jokes, some poems, and extracts from wife Betsy Devine's sparkling chronicle of what it's like to live through a Nobel Prize provide easy entertainment. There's also some history, some philosophy, some exposition of frontier science, and some frontier science, for your lasting edification. 49 pieces, including many from Wilczek's award-winning Reference Frame columns in Physics Today, and some never before published, are gathered by style and subject into a dozen chapters, each with a revealing, witty introduction. Profound ideas, presented with style: What could be better? Enjoy.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Physics

• Full title: Fantastic Realities: 49 Mind Journeys And A Trip To Stockholm
• Author: Frank Wilczek
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 532
• EAN: 9789812566492
• ISBN: 981256649X
• ID: 05068236
• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
• Weight: 1054 g
• Dimensions: 254 × 174 × 31 mm
• Date of publishing: 20. March 2006

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