{"product_id":"why-quark-rhymes-with-pork-and-other-scientific-diversions-hardback-9781107024304","title":"Why Quark Rhymes with Pork; And Other Scientific Diversions (Hardback) 9781107024304","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eWhy Quark Rhymes with Pork\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAnd Other Scientific Diversions\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA collection of offbeat and entertaining essays on physics and those who practice it, from well-known physicist N. David Mermin.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eN. David Mermin (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107024304, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 13 January 2016\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e370 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.4 x 14.3 x 2.8 cm, 0.59 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e'The real strength of Mermin's book lies in his descriptions of his interactions with several major figures in condensed-matter physics: Daniel Fischer, Walter Kohn, Ken Wilson, and Sir Rudolph Peierls. These chapters are gems, and they are well worth the price of the book for their clear and insightful descriptions of truly excellent physicists at work.' John G. Cramer, American Journal of Physics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eA collection of offbeat, entertaining and primarily nontechnical essays on physics and those who practice it, from eminent theoretical physicist N. David Mermin. Bringing together for the first time all thirty of his columns published in Physics Today's Reference Frame series from 1988 to 2009, with updating commentary, this humorous and unusual volume includes thirteen other essays, many of them previously unpublished. Mermin's lively and penetrating writing illuminates a broad range of topics, from the implications of bad spelling in a major science journal, to the crises of science libraries and scientific periodicals, the folly of scientific prizes and honors, the agony of getting funding, and how to pronounce 'quark'. His witty observations and insightful anecdotes gleaned from a lifetime in science will entertain physicists at all levels, as well as anyone else interested in science or scientists at the turn of the twenty-first century.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePart I. Reference Frame Columns, Physics Today, 1988–2009: 1. What's wrong with this Lagrangean? April 1988\u003cbr\u003e 2. What's wrong with this library? August 1988\u003cbr\u003e 3. What's wrong with these prizes? January 1989\u003cbr\u003e 4. What's wrong with this pillow? April 1989\u003cbr\u003e 5. What's wrong with this prose? May 1989\u003cbr\u003e 6. What's wrong with these equations? October 1989\u003cbr\u003e 7. What's wrong with these elements of reality? June 1990\u003cbr\u003e 8. What's wrong with these reviews? August 1990\u003cbr\u003e 9. What's wrong with those epochs? November 1990\u003cbr\u003e 10. Publishing in computopia, May 1991\u003cbr\u003e 11. What's wrong with those grants, June 1991\u003cbr\u003e 12. What's wrong in computopia, April 1992\u003cbr\u003e 13. What's wrong with those talks? November 1992\u003cbr\u003e 14. Two lectures on the wave-particle duality, January 1993\u003cbr\u003e 15. A quarrel we can settle, December 1993\u003cbr\u003e 16. What's wrong with this temptation, June 1994\u003cbr\u003e 17. What's wrong with this sustaining myth, March 1996\u003cbr\u003e 18. The golemization of relativity, April 1996\u003cbr\u003e 19. Diary of a Nobel guest, March 1997\u003cbr\u003e 20. What's wrong with this reading, October 1997\u003cbr\u003e 21. How not to create tigers, August 1999\u003cbr\u003e 22. What's wrong with this elegance? March 2000\u003cbr\u003e 23. The contemplation of quantum computation, July 2000\u003cbr\u003e 24. What's wrong with these questions? February 2001\u003cbr\u003e 25. What's wrong with this quantum world? February 2004\u003cbr\u003e 26. Could Feynman have said this? May 2004\u003cbr\u003e 27. My life with Einstein, December 2005\u003cbr\u003e 28. What has quantum mechanics to do with factoring? April 2007\u003cbr\u003e 29. Some curious facts about quantum factoring, October 2007\u003cbr\u003e 30. What's bad about this habit, May 2009\u003cbr\u003e Part II. Shedding Bad Habits: 31. Fixing the shifty split, Physics Today, July 2012\u003cbr\u003e 32. What I think about Now, Physics Today, March 2014\u003cbr\u003e 33. Why QBism is not the Copenhagen interpretation, lecture, Vienna, June 2014\u003cbr\u003e Part III. More from Professor Mozart: 34. What's wrong with this book? Unpublished, 1992\u003cbr\u003e 35. What's wrong with these stanzas? Physics Today, July 2007\u003cbr\u003e Part IV. More to be said: 36. The complete diary of a Nobel guest, unpublished, 1996\u003cbr\u003e 37. Elegance in physics, unpublished lecture, Minneapolis, 1999\u003cbr\u003e 38. Questions for 2105, unpublished lecture, Zurich, 2005\u003cbr\u003e Part V. Some People I've Known: 39. My life with Fisher, lecture, Rutgers University, 2001\u003cbr\u003e 40. My life with Kohn, 2003, updated 2013\u003cbr\u003e 41. My life with Wilson, lecture, Cornell University, 2014\u003cbr\u003e 42. My life with Peierls, unpublished lecture, Santa Barbara, 1997\u003cbr\u003e Part VI. Summing It Up: 43. 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