Most of us first hear about the irrational number π (pi)—rounded off as 3.14, with an infinite number of decimal digits—in ...

Orzel (How to Teach Quantum Physics to Your Dog) offers another helpful guide to modern physics, using an especially creative hook. After describing in the introduction a typical morning ...

THE first edition of Prof. Richtmyer's book has been appreciated by so many physicists that the appearance of a second edition is bound to be warmly welcomed, and it is only necessary here to note the ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. As the land is to the sea, a foothold in an immensity, so the Earth is to the cosmos. No wonder some scientists are ...

ANY book that aims at presenting a readable account of modern science is to be welcomed, and Dr. Lemon's work on the development of physics from Galileo to the present time has this objective ...