About this title: In this title, the author, a renowned physicist, offers a fascinating and readable overview of contemporary science covering such topics as number theory, relativity, fourth dimension, entropy, genes, and atomic structure.
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: New American Library
Date Published: 1953
Description: Fair with no dust jacket. Spine ends crushed; edgewear; plastic coating peeling; page block cracked; pencil owner name.; Not a pretty book, but the pages are clean, the topics are interesting, and there are b&w illustrations and photo plates.; Mentor; Trade PB; 7 x 4 inches; 316 pages. read more
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Dover Publications
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780486256641ISBN:0486256642
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 352 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Very good condition softcover. Inside is clean with no writing or markings. Front cover has a crease/scrape near top and bottom front corner has a bend. read more
Edition: [Explorer Books Edition, newly rev. by the author].
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Viking Press, New York
Date Published: 1961
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. 340 pages; Includes Illustrations; Index; "George Gamow, a leading nuclear physicist, has the gift of translating specialized knowledge into everyday language. "; (shelf G142) Softcover; Good condition; Printed Text VG; some tanning to cover. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Mentor
Date Published: later thus, 1960
Description: Good paperback. 16mo, paperback, 318pp, illus. edgewear, scrapes, spine crease, taped tears spine top, corners creased, cover. stress at gutter inside front cover. text tanned, clean and tight with last top corners creased. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: New American Library; Muller
Date Published: 1960
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Tight binding. Name, numbers & date stamp on! st page. Cover still bright & clean but with creases & shelf rubbing. A 1/2"square missing on bottom front cover. Spine facing peeling a little at top & bottom. Very usable... 318p., ill., 19 cm. Originally published Viking P., 1947. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam Books, New York
Date Published: 1972
Description: Good. No Dust Jacket as Issued. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Book shows moderate wear/ spine tight, pages clean/ covers creased and scuffed; moderate edge wear/ corners, spine hinge and spine creased/ readers slant/ several pages and page tips creased. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Dover Publications
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780486256641ISBN:0486256642
Description: New. Brand New! Buy with confidence-your satisfaction is guaranteed at B-Logistics! Due to the large scale of our operation, we do not have access to the specific contents/condition of our items. Please note that Expedited shipping is not available at this time. read more
Edition: Reprint
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Bantam Books, New York NY
Date Published: 1972
ISBN-13:9780486256641ISBN:0486256642
Description: Gamow, George. Very Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. 8th Printing, PB, VG, 340 pp., one crease on spine, two front corners rubbed. A stunning adventure into the worlds of modern science by one of the world's great science writers, a new, revised edition of one of the landmarks in scientific writing. Illustrated with more than a hundred of the author's own drawings. Awarded the 1956 Kalinga Prize by UNESCO for his popularization of science. The ISBN number used here is not the one for this ... read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Dover Pubns
Date Published: 1988-09-01
ISBN-13:9780486256641ISBN:0486256642
Description: NEW. Softcover. From an inventory that is 100% brand-new, 100% direct from the publishers' distribution channel. We carry NO pre-owned, NO remaindered. We pack in CARDBOARD to ensure the pristine quality is maintained. (Bubble-wrap alone is NOT sufficient to protect from USPS equipment. ) Guaranteed brand-NEW, protected with CARDBOARD, your satisfaction is guaranteed. BKLUVID: 9780486256641. read more
Description: Second Printing. 12mo., 340pp., paperback. External wear, textblock edges mottled, faint dampstain around lower corner on last 100 pages. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Bantam, New York
Date Published: 1979
Description: Very Good. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" 335 pgs. + index, tight crisp copy, unmarked, drawings by the author, pages slightly yellowed with age, small tear in rear cover aprox. 1/2" long, front cover lightly nicked in one spot, edges rubbed. read more
"I love laymen science and this is the best I've read. Gamow presents complex subjects with simple analogies and clever cartoons. His science, rivets like a jackhammer, pounding out universal revelations with each new page.
One, Two, Three...Infinity walks us through the worlds of nuclear physics, cosmology, biology, relativity, quantum theory, and astrophysics without skipping a beat. We learn how to measure the height of an oil molecule in a bathtub, the rotation of our milky way with a red shift, and why everything wishes it were silver. Too often, the presentation of real science turns into an imagination's death march into a bleak world of facts and foreign vocabulary. But Gamow keeps it light and by transcending the minutia, makes a reader that floats above it and keeps its value even now, half a decade after its first publication."
"Written in 1947 and last updated in 1961, Gamow's overview of the postwar state of the art in mathematics, physics, biology, and astronomy is lucid, if occasionally challenging, with 128 charming illustrations by the author scattered through the text. I picked this up for its discussions of number theory and topology for the nonspecialist, though if I had checked the table of contents, I would have seen that the discussion of math per se takes up only about a tenth of the book's length. Still, this is the sort of book that I wish had been on my parents' bookshelf when I was a bored kid reading every book I could get my hands on."
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