Screen LibraryFragments of science : festschrift for Mendel Sachs : Amherst, New York, USA, 7 September 1997 /
Professor Mendel Sachs's contributions have been wide-ranging and the lectures presented at the symposium honoring him on his retirement encompassed a broad spectrum - hence the title Fragments of Science. The topics covered include solar physics, quantum mechanics, crystallography, elementary...
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World Scientific Pub. Co.,
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| Publisher Address: | Singapore ; River Edge, N.J. : |
| Publication Dates: | 1999. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://www.worldscientific.com/worldscibooks/10.1142/4110#t=toc |
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Professor Mendel Sachs's contributions have been wide-ranging and the lectures presented at the symposium honoring him on his retirement encompassed a broad spectrum - hence the title Fragments of Science. The topics covered include solar physics, quantum mechanics, crystallography, elementary particles, logic and philosophy, and the history of physics. Included also is a new poem by noted poet Robert Creeley, composed especially for the symposium. Harvey Breverman, an eminent artist and professor of art, attended the symposium and sketched the lecturers and recorded some of the material they presented (as seen from the eyes of an artist!). These remarkable drawings are reproduced in duotone throughout the volume. Post-banquet reminiscences of turbulent times at the university in the late 1960s by noted author and computer guru Cliff Stoll enliven the volume. T. Y. Wu and Sachs exchange greetings and comments regarding their discussions of the twin paradox in the 1970s. Sachs closes the volume with an illuminating autobiographical chapter. This is a highly stimulating volume and a feast for the eyes. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (xiv,233pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 9789814527460 |
| CLC: | O4-532 |
| Contents: | Preface / Michael Ram -- Sketches at a symposium / Harvey Breverman -- For Mendel Sachs / Robert Creeley -- The constancy of an angular point of view / James H. Bunn -- Information-theoretic logic and transformation-theoretic logic / John H. Corcoran -- The invention of the transistor and the realization of the hole / Lillian Hoddeson -- Mach's principle, Newtonian gravitation, absolute space, and Einstein / Solomon L. Schwebel -- The sun, our variable star / Judith L. Lean -- The inconstant Sun: Symbiosis of time variations of sunspots, atmospheric radiocarbon, Aurorae, and tree ring growth / Charles P. Sonett -- Other worlds / Joe Rosen -- Super-classical quantum mechanics / Willis E. Lamb, Jr. -- A probabilistic approach to the phase problem of X-ray crystallography / Herbert A. Hauptman -- A nonlinear twist on inertia gives unified electroweak gravitation / Marcus Cohen -- Neutrino oscillations / D. Hywel White -- On an incompleteness in the general-relativistic description of gravitation / Dharam V. Ahluwalia -- All truth is out / Cliff Stoll -- Idea of physics: Correspondence between colleagues / Ta-You Wu and Mendel Sachs -- The influence of the physics and philosophy of Einstein's relativity on my attitudes in science: An autobiography / Mendel Sachs. |