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UNINA9910455541503321 |
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Autore |
Bernstein Jeremy <1929-> |
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Titolo |
Quantum profiles [[electronic resource] /] / Jeremy Bernstein |
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Princeton, N.J., : Princeton University Press, c1991 |
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1-282-75147-6 |
9786612751479 |
1-4008-2054-5 |
1-4008-1105-8 |
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[Course Book] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (187 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Quantum theory |
Physicists |
Electronic books. |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 167) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- John Stewart Bell: Quantum Engineer -- Epilogue -- John Wheeler: Retarded Learner -- Epilogue -- Besso -- Select Bibliography -- Index |
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For the prominent science writer Jeremy Bernstein, the profile is the most congenial way of communicating science. Here, in what he labels a "series of conversations carried on in the reader's behalf and my own," he evokes the tremendous intellectual excitement of the world of modern physics, especially the quantum revolution. Drawing on his well-known talent for explaining the most complex scientific ideas for the layperson, Bernstein gives us a lively sense of what the issues of quantum mechanics are and of various ways in which individual physicists approached them.The author begins this series of interconnected profiles by describing the life and work of John Stewart Bell, the brilliant physicist employed at the gigantic elementary particle laboratory near Geneva (CERN), whose "Bell's Inequality" inspired a generation of researchers to confront, by experiment, just how peculiar and counterintuitional quantum mechanics really is. Bernstein then discusses the career of the prodigiously active and creative John Archibald Wheeler, who worked in the beginning stages of almost every |
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branch of contemporary physics and invented the terms "black hole," "ergo-sphere," "geon," "Planck length," and "stellarator." The book closes with a moving commentary on the correspondence, of fifty-two years duration, between Einstein and the gentle, talented, but little-known Swiss engineer Michele Angelo Besso. "Of all the Einstein letters I have read these are surely the most striking, on a purely human level," writes Bernstein of the Einstein-Besso correspondence. "Einstein was not given to close friendships--`the merely personal,' as he once put it--but these letters are filled with `the merely personal,' even though the deep issues of physics and its philosophy are never very far away." |
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UNINA9910790989903321 |
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Autore |
Bowman J. H. |
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Titolo |
Essential cataloguing / / J.H. Bowman [[electronic resource]] |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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London : , : Facet, , 2003 |
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ISBN |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (viii, 216 pages) : digital, PDF file(s) |
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Disciplina |
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Descriptive cataloging |
MARC formats |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Jul 2018). |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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; 1. Introduction -- ; 2. Background to cataloguing and AACR2 -- ; 3. Structure of AACR2 and of the MARC 21 format -- ; 4. Description -- ; 5. Access points -- ; 6. Multipart works -- ; 7. Headings for persons -- ; 8. Headings for corporate bodies -- ; 9. Authority control -- ; 10. Uniform titles -- ; App. Catalogue records in MARC 21 format for the examples in this book. |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Mystified by main entry? Confused by corporate bodies? Can't tell a description from an access point? Then this is the book for you. Cataloguing is important, despite what some people may tell you. Because it is hardly taught nowadays, there is all the more likelihood that you will find yourself having to catalogue without having been taught anything about it. This book covers descriptive cataloguing, and |
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is designed as a simple companion to the Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (revised 2002 edition). Dealing primarily with printed books, but including many references to other formats, the author leads you step by step through the cataloguing process, covering: description; access points; multipart works; headings for persons; headings for corporate bodies; authority control and uniform titles. |
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