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Relativity ought to be an important part of everyone's education. Its subject is time, with which we all think we are familiar. Einstein's special theory of relativity reveals that some of our most intuitive notions about time are shockingly wrong. This clear, lively, and informal exposition of special relativity takes a highly original approach to introduce readers to the true nature of time. It is accessible to anyone who remembers a little ...

Relativität ist ein Teil der Allgemeinbildung – davon ist der Autor N. David Mermin überzeugt, denn schließlich geht es um die Zeit, eine Sache, die nun wirklich jeder kennt. Mermins Zugang zum Thema ist sehr einfallsreich, aber dennoch exakt und vollständig. Diese gut lesbare Vorstellung der Grundgedanken von Albert Einsteins Relativitätstheorie richtet sich an alle, die sich noch zumindest vage an die Mathematik der Mittelstufe erinnern (qua...

In the 1990's it was realized that quantum physics has some spectacular applications in computer science. This book is a concise introduction to quantum computation, developing the basic elements of this new branch of computational theory without assuming any background in physics. It begins with an introduction to the quantum theory from a computer-science perspective. It illustrates the quantum-computational approach with several elementary ...

Boojums All the Way Through is a collection of essays which deals in a variety of ways with the problem of communicating modern physics to both physicists and non-physicists. The author, Professor David Mermin, finds startlingly simple ways of presenting ideas that are traditionally regarded as complex.

A collection of offbeat, entertaining and primarily nontechnical essays on physics and those who practice it, from eminent theoretical physicist N. David Mermin. Bringing together for the first time all thirty of his columns published in Physics Today's Reference Frame series from 1988 to 2009, with updating commentary, this humorous and unusual volume includes thirteen other essays, many of them previously unpublished. Mermin's lively and pen...

A readable exposition of Einstein's theory of relativity.

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