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  • Boojums All the Way through: Communicating Science in a Prosaic Age
  • Written by author N. David Mermin
  • Published by Cambridge University Press, March 1990
  • Boojums All the Way Through is a collection of essays that presents the dilemma of communicating modern physics to both physicists and nonphysicists. Some addressed to a general audience, some to students and others to scientists, the essays all share a p
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Preface;

Part I. Reflections on the Pursuit of Physics:

1. E. pluribus boojum: the physicist as neologist;
2. Commencement address;
3. One of the great physicists ... and great characters;
4. My life with Landeau;
5. What's wrong with this lagrangean?;
6. What's wrong with this library?;
7. What's wrong with this prose?;
8. What's wrong with these equations?;
9. What's wrong with these prizes?;

Part II. The Quantum Theory:
10. Quantum mysteries for anyone;
11. Can you help your team tonight by watching on TV?;
12. Spooky actions at a distance: mysteries of the quantum;
13. A bolt from the blue: The Eistein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox;
14. The philosophical writings of Neils Bohr;
15. The great quantum muddle;
16. What's wrong with this pillow?;

Part III. Relativity:
17. Cruel nature: a relativistic tragicomedy;
18. The amazing many coloured relativity engine;
19. Relativistic addition of velocities directly from the constancy of the velocity of light;
20. Relativity without light;
21. E = Mc2 (written with M. J. Feigenbaum);

Part IV Mathematical Musings:
22. Logarithms!;
23. Stirling's formula!;
24. Pi in the sky;
25. Variational principles in dynamics and quantum theory;
26. Special functions: a group theoretic approach.


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