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MR Tompkins in Paperback - George Gamow, Roger Penrose
MR Tompkins in Paperback
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Format: ebook
ISBN: 9781139632355 (1139632353)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Pages no: 202
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics, Non Fiction, Science, Popular Science, Physics
Series: Mr Tompkins
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LeahSL
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Outdated (due to physics being developed somewhat since like 1950) but clear and fun.
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Edward
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4.0 Mr Tompkins in Paperback (Canto Classics)
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ForewordPrefaceAcknowledgementsIntroduction--Mr Tompkins in Paperback
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George Gamow (during his "three decade vacation" in the USA) wrote a number of articles and books featuring Mr. Tompkins, a bank clerk with an especially easily influenced dream-life. The dreams have a funny way of becoming stories and adventures that explain features of fundamental physics and cosm...
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4.0 Mr Tompkins in Paperback
text Mr Tompkins in Paperback
George Gamow (during his "three decade vacation" in the USA) wrote a number of articles and books featuring Mr. Tompkins, a bank clerk with an especially easily influenced dream-life. The dreams have a funny way of becoming stories and adventures that explain features of fundamental physics and cosm...
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Other editions (5)
Mr Tompkins in Paperback - George Gamow, Roger Penrose
Mr Tompkins in Paperback: Mr Tompkins in Wonderland/Mr Tompkins Explores the Atom - George Gamow
Mr Tompkins in Paperback (Canto Classics) - George Gamow, Roger Penrose
Mr Tompkins in Paperback: Mr Tompkins in Wonderland/Mr Tompkins Explores the Atom - George Gamow
MR Tompkins in Paperback - George Gamow, Roger Penrose
Books by Roger Penrose
The Emperor's New Mind: Concerning Computers, Minds, and the Laws of Physics (Popular Science) - Martin Gardner, Roger Penrose
Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space-Time - Richard P. Feynman, Roger Penrose
What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches - Erwin Schrödinger, Roger Penrose
Cycles of Time: An Extraordinary New View of the Universe - Roger Penrose
The Nature of Space and Time - Stephen Hawking, Roger Penrose
Mr Tompkins in Paperback - George Gamow, Roger Penrose
The Large, the Small and the Human Mind (Canto) - Roger Penrose, Malcolm S. Longair
'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism' - Erwin Schrödinger, Roger Penrose
Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe - Roger Penrose
What is Life? (Canto Classics) - Erwin Schrodinger, Roger Penrose
Books by George Gamow
One, Two, Three...Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science - George Gamow
Thirty Years that Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory - George Gamow
Mr Tompkins in Paperback - George Gamow, Roger Penrose
My World Line: An Informal Autobiography... My World Line: An Informal Autobiography - George Gamow
The Atom and its Nucleus - George Gamow The Atom and its Nucleus - George Gamow
The Star Called the Sun - George Gamow The Star Called the Sun - George Gamow
Mr Tompkins in Paperback (Canto) - George Gamow, John Hookham, Roger Penrose
Moon - George Gamow Moon - George Gamow
Thirty Years That Shook Physics: The Sto... Thirty Years That Shook Physics: The Story of Quantum Theory - George Gamow
Mr Tompkins inside Himself - George Gamow, M. Ycas
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