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A comprehensible description of topics that are so counter-intuitive that they become almost impossible to talk about, mainly as a consequence of the inability of language as it currently is, to infinitj classify them.

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ONE TWO THREE INFINITY

Get ready to have some fun because the whole thing is palatable to any curious person. Selections from His Writings. Refresh and try again. First Gamow tackled topics from various fields of science such as genetics, particle physics and astronomy in a quite entertaining way.

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Among the topics scrutinized with the author's celebrated good humor and pedagogical prowess are the macrocosm and the microcosm, theory of numbers, relativity of space and time, entropy, genes, atomic structure, nuclear fission, and the origin of the solar system. Of course he closes the book discussing the "laws of disorder" like brownian motion and the second law of thermodynamics making this book a huge and mysterious mess, just like the universe.

At that stage physical science will enter from the epoch of Columbus and Magellan into the epoch of the National Geographic Magazine! I had to reread some parts of the book to actually understand the content.

This book was interesting for several reasons. Whatever your level of scientific expertise, chances are you'll derive a great deal of pleasure, stimulation, and information from this unusual and imaginative book. Oct 10, J. This is one of those books that you wish you had read when you were a kid. Lists with This Book. The explanations on the other hand, were presented in layman terms but still retain the message that it wants to deliver. The writer starts from very basic about everything and goes deep into the subject starting from cells to body and what not.

One very underrated things of the book is it connects every single area of science in very smooth manner.

Mar 12, Roberto Rigolin F Lopes rated it it was amazing. Feels harsh to give this two stars, since I was sincerely impressed at the scope, but I didn't finish it so them the breaks.

If we had books like this for textbooks, every young student would dream of becoming a scientist. Books by George Gamow.

The drawings are funny and the writing is engaging. His science, rivets like a jackhammer, pounding out universal revelations with each new page.

The last chapter is absolutely perfect. May 11, Kadri rated it really liked it Shelves: It introduces you some interesting history of big numbers and how it started.

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Feb 19, Vipin Agrawal rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: Apart from that, the book kept me cooing till the end. We learn how to measure the height of an oil molecule in a bathtub, the rotation of our milky way with a red shif I love laymen science and this is the best I've read.

It is an honour to hear his words through this book and to get a glimpse into his imagination. Having just read this fine book, closely preceded by the equally excellent Frontiers of AstronomyI'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 to SF.

He discovered alpha decay via quantum tunneling and worked on radioactive decay of the atomic nucleus, star formation, stellar nucleosynthesis, big bang nucleosynthesis, George Gamow Russian pronunciation: Covers a variety of topics from simple to complex.