The merely personal : observations on science and scientists / Jeremy Bernstein.

Author/creator Bernstein, Jeremy, 1929-
Format Book
Publication InfoChicago : Ivan R. Dee, 2001.
Description245 pages ; 22 cm
Subjects
Science.
Scientists.

Contents On science -- The bead game in the glass house -- Tom Stoppard's quantum -- SN-1987A -- Einstein's blunder -- On scientists -- Enough Einstein? -- Heaven's net: John Donne and Johannes Kepler -- The merely very good -- Shadows -- Kurt Gödel: the decidable and the undecidable -- Giants and dwarfs -- The German atomic bomb -- Six pieces of Richard Feynman -- Nash.
Bibliography noteIncludes index.
LCCN 00063917
ISBN1566633443 (alk. paper)