George Gamow
Birth date: March 04, 1904
Died: August 19, 1968
George Gamow's Books
Outdated (due to physics being developed somewhat since like 1950) but clear and fun.
ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction--Mr Tompkins in Paperback
Espectacular. Nunca había leído una novela estrictamente sobre física.En El país de las Maravillas, acompañamos al Sr. Tompkins, un empleado bancario frustrado tras concurrir a una conferencia sobre relatividad, a través de sus sueños. Pero sus desvaríos no son para nada alocados. El Sr. Tompkins su...
One of my current projects is about using speech recognition to build educational software, and there is a long-running discussion in our group about whether learning should be fun (for more background, see this review). I am one of the people in favor of making education entertaining, but others in...
Having just read this fine book, closely preceded by the equally excellent Frontiers of Astronomy, I'm beginning to feel that the 40s and 50s were not just the Golden Age of science-fiction; they may also have been the Golden Age of popular science writing, a genre which certainly is not unconnected...
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