Indiana Steinhardt and the Quest for Quasicrystals : A Conversation with Paul Steinhardt.
This book is based on an in-depth filmed conversation between Howard Burton and Paul Steinhardt, the Albert Einstein Professor of Science and Director of the Center for Theoretical Science at Princeton University. This wide-ranging conversation provides a comprehensive account of a marvellous scient...
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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Toronto :
Open Agenda Publishing,
2020.
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| Serie: | Ideas Roadshow Conversations Ser.
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| Accesso online: | https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctv22jnqp9 |
Sommario:
- Intro
- A Note on the Text
- Introduction
- The Conversation
- I. Introducing Quasicrystals
- II. Building Models
- III. Out of the Blue
- IV. Competing Explanations
- V. Looking to Nature
- VI. New Year's Delight
- VII. Confronting the Impossible
- VIII. Tracking Khatyrkite
- IX. Kamchatka
- X. Passing It On
- Continuing the Conversation