Conjuring the Universe: The Origins of the Laws of Nature by Atkins, Peter

Conjuring the Universe: The Origins of the Laws of Nature (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198813378)

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Conjuring the Universe: The Origins of the Laws of Nature by Atkins, Peter

Conjuring the Universe: The Origins of the Laws of Nature

$20.99
Conjuring the Universe: The Origins of the Laws of Nature by Atkins, Peter

Conjuring the Universe: The Origins of the Laws of Nature

$20.99
Format: Hardcover
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The marvellous complexity of the Universe emerges from several deep laws and a handful of fundamental constants that fix its shape, scale, and destiny. There is a deep structure to the world which at the same time is simple, elegant, and beautiful. Where did these laws and these constants come from? And why are the laws so fruitful when written in the language of mathematics?

Peter Atkins considers the minimum effort needed to equip the Universe with its laws and its constants. He explores the origin of the conservation of energy, of electromagnetism, of classical and quantum mechanics, and of thermodynamics, showing how all these laws spring from deep symmetries. The revolutionary result is a short but immensely rich weaving together of the fundamental ideas of physics. With his characteristic wit, erudition, and economy, Atkins sketches out how the laws of Nature can spring from very little. Or arguably from nothing at all.

Author: Peter Atkins
ISBN-10: 0198813376
ISBN-13: 9780198813378
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Language: English
Published: 05/22/2018
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.60h x 5.60w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 04/15/2018
Publishers Weekly 04/30/2018
Choice 12/01/2018
By Peter Atkins
By Peter Atkins
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Peter Atkins, Fellow of Lincoln College, Oxford

Peter Atkins is a fellow of Lincoln College in the University of Oxford and the author of about seventy books for students and a general audience. His texts are market leaders around the globe. A frequent lecturer in the United States and throughout the world, he has held visiting professorships in France, Israel, Japan, China, and New Zealand. He was the founding chairman of the Committee on Chemistry Education of the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry and was a member of IUPAC's Physical and Biophysical Chemistry Division. He was the 2016 recipient of the American Chemical Society's Grady-Stack Award for the communication of chemistry to the public.

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