| | Dr.Riemann's Zeros
In 1859 Bernhard Riemann, a shy German mathematician, wrote an eight-page article, suggesting an answer to a problem that had long puzzled mathematicians. For the next 150 years, the world's mathematicians have longed to confirm the Riemann hypothesis. So great is the interest in its solution that in 2001, an American foundation offered a... | | Black Bodies and Quantum Cats: Tales of Pure Genius and Mad SciencePhysics has the reputation, not entirely undeserved, of being a difficult subject. Books about physics are often avoided, and that’s too bad, because the questions that engage physicists are of interest to anyone with curiosity about the universe we live in.
The story of physics, as played out in the lives of physicists, inventors,... |