The New Ambidextrous Universe

The New Ambidextrous Universe
Author: Martin Gardner
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 418
Release: 2005-06-24
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0486442446

This newly updated edition of a well-known work explores a pair of modern science's most fundamental discoveries: the asymmetric DNA helix and the overthrow of parity (left-right symmetry) in particle physics. Absorbing and thought-provoking, The New Ambidextrous Universe was written by Martin Gardner, one of Dover's most popular authors,.

The Ambidextrous Universe

The Ambidextrous Universe
Author: Martin Gardner
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1964
Genre: Left- and right-handedness
ISBN:

Mirrors -- Lineland and flatland -- Solidland -- Magic -- Art, music, and poetry -- Galaxies, suns, and planets -- Plants and animals -- Asymmetry in animals -- The human body -- the sinistral minority -- Crystals -- Molecules -- Carbon -- Living molecules -- The origin of life -- The origin of asymmetry -- The fourth dimension -- The Ozma problem -- Mach's shock -- Parity -- Antiparticles -- The fall of parity -- Neutrinos -- Mr. Split -- Is the Ozma problem solved?

Colossal Book of Mathematics

Colossal Book of Mathematics
Author: Martin Gardner
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 748
Release: 2001
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 9780393020236

No amateur or math authority can be without this ultimate compendium of classic puzzles, paradoxes, and puzzles from America's best-loved mathematical expert. 320 line drawings.