A Theory for Everything / Edition 1

by Jeremy Bernstein

Overview

"...heartily recommended as being as fine an example as one can hope to find of expository writing on science. The profiles of the giants of modern science, not to mention the wonderful accounts of earlier titans of physics, certainly make the book a best-buy on the popular science shelf." -NEW SCIENTIST

"an eclectic collection of essays...a well written work, as one expect(s) from a writer of Bernsteins caliber; recommended..." -LIBRARY JOURNAL

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780387947006
Publisher:	Springer New York
Publication date:	08/29/1996
Series:	Texts and Monographs in Physics
Edition description:	1996
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.03(d)

Editorial Reviews

Many readers will recognize Bernstein (Cranks, Quarks & the Cosmos, LJ 1/93) as the noted science essayist for the New Yorker for the past 30 years. This is an eclectic collection of 17 essays focusing 20th-century physics and physicists, nearly all of which have previously appeared in either the Atlantic, the New York Review of Books, the New Yorker, or Scientific American. Each essay is updated with either an introduction or postscript rather than a general preface, and the last four are humorous fictional accounts of academic life much in the vein of David Lodge's Small World (Warner, 1991). A well written work, as one expect from a writer of Bernstein's caliber; recommended for public libraries.James Olson, Northeastern Illinois Univ. Lib., Chicago

Library Journal