Author(s) : Jagdish Mehra Publisher : World Scientific Publishing Date       : 1999 Pages      : 167 Format    : PDF ISBN       : 9810239130

About the Author
Trained as a theoretical physicist in the schools of Heisenberg and Pauli, Jagdish Mehra is a distinguished historian of modern physics. His major work (with Helmut Rechenberg, six volumes, nine books) is The Historical Development of Quantum Theory, 1900–1940. In 1994 Professor Mehra published The Beat of a Different Drum: The Life and Science of Richard Feynman, and he is now working (with Kimball A Milton) on a companion volume, Climbing the Mountain: The Scientific Biography of Julian Schwinger. With Arthur Wightman of Princeton University, he has coedited The Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner in eight volumes.

Professor Mehra has held prestigious academic appointments in Europe and the USA, including the UNESCO – Sir Julian Huxley Distinguished Professorship of History of Science in Trieste, Italy, and Paris, France. He lives in Houston, Texas, USA, where he is associated with the University of Houston.

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Author(s) : David Greene Publisher : Institute of Physics Publishing Date       : 2003 Pages     : 230 Format    : PDF ISBN       : 0750308745

This book brings together a wide range of topics that would normally be found in separate texts classified as astronomy, zoology, technology, history, art or physics. The connection is the theme of light and dark, which may alternate either in time or in space. In the time domain, slow variations often determine when animals mate and sleep, patterns defined in seconds provide navigational information for sailors and flashes of almost incomprehensible brevity convey messages and data around the world. Spatial patterns in black and white define the area on which chess players compete and enable the computer at the supermarket checkout to distinguish baked beans from jam tarts.

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