Skip to main content

Shopping Cart

You're getting the VIP treatment!

Item(s) unavailable for purchase
Please review your cart. You can remove the unavailable item(s) now or we'll automatically remove it at Checkout.
itemsitem
itemsitem

Recommended For You

Loading...
  • Lectures on Quantum Mechanics

    Series series Dover Books on Physics
    The author of this concise, brilliant series of lectures on mathematical methods in quantum mechanics was one of the shining intellects in the field, winning a Nobel prize in 1933 for his pioneering work in the quantum mechanics of the atom. Beyond that, he developed the transformation theory of quantum mechanics (which made it possible to calculate the statistical distribution of certain ... Read more

    $9.59 CAD

  • The Strangest Man

    The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Mystic of the Atom

    **Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book PrizeThe definitive biography of Paul Dirac, the brilliant—and enigmatic—physicist whose foundational work in quantum mechanics revolutionized modern science.“This biography is a gift.… A thought-provoking meditation on human achievement, limitations, and the relations between the two.” —New York Times Book Review**Paul Dirac was among the great scientific ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • The Strangest Man

    The Hidden Life of Paul Dirac, Quantum Genius

    'A monumental achievement - one of the great scientific biographies.' Michael FraynThe Strangest Man is the Costa Biography Award-winning account of Paul Dirac, the famous physicist sometimes called the British Einstein. He was one of the leading pioneers of the greatest revolution in twentieth-century science: quantum mechanics. The youngest theoretician ever to win the Nobel Prize for Physics, ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Clifford Analysis and Related Topics

    In Honor of Paul A. M. Dirac, CART 2014, Tallahassee, Florida, December 15–17

    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    This book, intended to commemorate the work of Paul Dirac, highlights new developments in the main directions of Clifford analysis. Just as complex analysis is based on the algebra of the complex numbers, Clifford analysis is based on the geometric Clifford algebras. Many methods and theorems from complex analysis generalize to higher dimensions in various ways. However, many new features emerge ... Read more

    $115.29 CAD

  • The Paul Dirac Handbook - Everything You Need To Know About Paul Dirac

    by Jason Pope ...
    This book is your ultimate Paul Dirac resource. Here you will find the most up-to-date information, facts, quotes and much more.In easy to read chapters, with extensive references and links to get you to know all there is to know about Paul Dirac's whole picture right away. Get countless Paul Dirac facts right at your fingertips with this essential resource.The Paul Dirac Handbook is the single ... Read more

    $12.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

People who read these also enjoyed

  • The Man Who Changed Everything

    The Life of James Clerk Maxwell

    by Basil Mahon ...
    "Mahon has written a first-rate book on Maxwell's science and legacy."—New ScientistThis is the first biography in twenty years of James Clerk Maxwell, one of the greatest scientists of our time and yet a man relatively unknown to the wider public. Approaching science with a freshness unbound by convention or previous expectations, he produced some of the most original scientific thinking of the ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Churchill's Bomb

    Churchill's Bomb - from the author of the Costa award-winning biography The Strangest Man - reveals a new aspect of Winston Churchill's life, so far completely neglected by historians: his relations with his nuclear scientists, and his management of Britain's policy on atomic weapons.Churchill was the only prominent politician to foresee the nuclear age and he played a leading role in the ... Read more

    $11.19 CAD

  • Quantum Man: Richard Feynman's Life in Science (Great Discoveries)

    Richard Feynman's Life in Science

    Series series Great Discoveries
    "A worthy addition to the Feynman shelf and a welcome follow-up to the standard-bearer, James Gleick's Genius." —Kirkus ReviewsPerhaps the greatest physicist of the second half of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman changed the way we think about quantum mechanics, the most perplexing of all physical theories. Here Lawrence M. Krauss, himself a theoretical physicist and a best-selling author, ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • Time Reborn

    From the Crisis in Physics to the Future of the Universe

    by Lee Smolin ...
    Since the ancients, physicists have argued that time is not real, that we may think we experience time passing but it's just a human illusion in a timeless universe operating on predetermined laws. Lee brilliantly shows how this thinking came about from our deep need for stability and the eternal, but that indeed time may be the only thing that is real.Since the ancients, physicists have argued ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Isaac Newton

    by James Gleick ...
    Isaac Newton was born in a stone farmhouse in 1642, fatherless and unwanted by his mother. When he died in London in 1727 he was so renowned he was given a state funeral—an unheard-of honor for a subject whose achievements were in the realm of the intellect. During the years he was an irascible presence at Trinity College, Cambridge, Newton imagined properties of nature and gave them names—mass, ... Read more

    $14.99 CAD

  • Collider

    The Search for the World's Smallest Particles

    by Paul Halpern ...
    An accessible look at the hottest topic in physics and the experiments that will transform our understanding of the universeThe biggest news in science today is the Large Hadron Collider, the world's largest and most powerful particle-smasher, and the anticipation of finally discovering the Higgs boson particle. But what is the Higgs boson and why is it often referred to as the God Particle? Why ... Read more

    $16.79 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Trope-ing the Light Fantastic

    The essential resource for anyone who reads, writes, watches, or studies science fiction.Men have walked on the Moon. Siri and Alexa manage—at least often enough to be helpful—to make sense of the things we say. Biologists have decoded DNA, and doctors have begun to tailor treatments to suit our individual genetic make-ups. In short: science and tech happen.But faster-than-light travel? Time ... Read more

    $13.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus