The dark sphere mystery and the quantic box

The dark sphere mystery and the quantic box
Author: Carlos Augusto Nicolai
Publisher: Editora Buqui
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2021-02-10
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 6586118867

This book tells the story of Andre's life – one of the protagonists – and talks about a mysterious sphere-shaped meteorite that fell on his farm, in the 1960s. Some days after the meteorite falls, Andre meets a beautiful girl, Julia, who soon becomes to be his girlfriend and to be aware of the big mystery surrounding the meteorite. In secret, they live the most fantastic and unimaginable adventures. Andre and Julia also witness the rise and the truculence of the Brazilian military regime, installed in 1964. Because of that, and attending a request made by their parents, they both decide to live together in the United States of America. Once in America, this wonderful couple starts studying in the Houston University. Andre follow studies Astrophysics and Julia dedicate herself to Geology. This way, with their knowledge combined, they will try solving the mystery of the strange sphere that fell from the sky. During the University study period, they face extremely difficult experiences. But, little by little, as they get to know the sphere special characteristics, they acquire great powers that no human being has ever experienced. However, Andre and Julia always make use of it in the most ethical way possible. Their biggest fear is that such secret becomes public and human greed puts everything to lose. So, if such power to pass by wrong hands, it would certainly be used as a way of domination.

Freak the Mighty

Freak the Mighty
Author: Rodman Philbrick
Publisher: Usborne Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 140
Release: 2015-04-01
Genre: Juvenile Fiction
ISBN: 1409591050

Max is used to being called Stupid. And he is used to everyone being scared of him. On account of his size and looking like his dad. Kevin is used to being called Dwarf. And he is used to everyone laughing at him. On account of his size and being some cripple kid. But greatness comes in all sizes, and together Max and Kevin become Freak The Mighty and walk high above the world. An inspiring, heartbreaking, multi-award winning international bestseller.

Quantico

Quantico
Author: Charles A. Fleming
Publisher:
Total Pages: 168
Release: 1978
Genre: Government publications
ISBN:

The Physics of Quantum Mechanics

The Physics of Quantum Mechanics
Author: James Binney
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2013-12
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0199688575

This title gives students a good understanding of how quantum mechanics describes the material world. The text stresses the continuity between the quantum world and the classical world, which is merely an approximation to the quantum world.

Our Mathematical Universe

Our Mathematical Universe
Author: Max Tegmark
Publisher: Vintage
Total Pages: 434
Release: 2015-02-03
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0307744256

Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothesis that our physical reality is a mathematical structure and his theory of the ultimate multiverse. In a dazzling combination of both popular and groundbreaking science, he not only helps us grasp his often mind-boggling theories, but he also shares with us some of the often surprising triumphs and disappointments that have shaped his life as a scientist. Fascinating from first to last—this is a book that has already prompted the attention and admiration of some of the most prominent scientists and mathematicians.

Quantum

Quantum
Author: Jim Al-Khalili
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Total Pages: 330
Release: 2012-10-25
Genre: Science
ISBN: 1780225342

From Schrodinger's cat to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, this book untangles the weirdness of the quantum world. Quantum mechanics underpins modern science and provides us with a blueprint for reality itself. And yet it has been said that if you're not shocked by it, you don't understand it. But is quantum physics really so unknowable? Is reality really so strange? And just how can cats be half-alive and half-dead at the same time? Our journey into the quantum begins with nature's own conjuring trick, in which we discover that atoms -- contrary to the rules of everyday experience -- can exist in two locations at once. To understand this we travel back to the dawn of the twentieth century and witness the birth of quantum theory, which over the next one hundred years was to overthrow so many of our deeply held notions about the nature of our universe. Scientists and philosophers have been left grappling with its implications every since.

Deathtrap Dungeon

Deathtrap Dungeon
Author: Ian Livingstone
Publisher: Wizard Books
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Fantasy fiction
ISBN: 9781848310773

Baron Sukumvit's devilish labyrinth of Fang is riddled with fiendish traps and bloodthirsty monsters.

Thirty-three Miniatures

Thirty-three Miniatures
Author: Jiří Matoušek
Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2010
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0821849778

This volume contains a collection of clever mathematical applications of linear algebra, mainly in combinatorics, geometry, and algorithms. Each chapter covers a single main result with motivation and full proof in at most ten pages and can be read independently of all other chapters (with minor exceptions), assuming only a modest background in linear algebra. The topics include a number of well-known mathematical gems, such as Hamming codes, the matrix-tree theorem, the Lovasz bound on the Shannon capacity, and a counterexample to Borsuk's conjecture, as well as other, perhaps less popular but similarly beautiful results, e.g., fast associativity testing, a lemma of Steinitz on ordering vectors, a monotonicity result for integer partitions, or a bound for set pairs via exterior products. The simpler results in the first part of the book provide ample material to liven up an undergraduate course of linear algebra. The more advanced parts can be used for a graduate course of linear-algebraic methods or for seminar presentations. Table of Contents: Fibonacci numbers, quickly; Fibonacci numbers, the formula; The clubs of Oddtown; Same-size intersections; Error-correcting codes; Odd distances; Are these distances Euclidean?; Packing complete bipartite graphs; Equiangular lines; Where is the triangle?; Checking matrix multiplication; Tiling a rectangle by squares; Three Petersens are not enough; Petersen, Hoffman-Singleton, and maybe 57; Only two distances; Covering a cube minus one vertex; Medium-size intersection is hard to avoid; On the difficulty of reducing the diameter; The end of the small coins; Walking in the yard; Counting spanning trees; In how many ways can a man tile a board?; More bricks--more walls?; Perfect matchings and determinants; Turning a ladder over a finite field; Counting compositions; Is it associative?; The secret agent and umbrella; Shannon capacity of the union: a tale of two fields; Equilateral sets; Cutting cheaply using eigenvectors; Rotating the cube; Set pairs and exterior products; Index. (STML/53)

Feynman's Lost Lecture

Feynman's Lost Lecture
Author: David Goodstein
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2009-11-06
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0393078930

"Glorious."—Wall Street Journal Rescued from obscurity, Feynman's Lost Lecture is a blessing for all Feynman followers. Most know Richard Feynman for the hilarious anecdotes and exploits in his best-selling books "Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!" and "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" But not always obvious in those stories was his brilliance as a pure scientist—one of the century's greatest physicists. With this book and CD, we hear the voice of the great Feynman in all his ingenuity, insight, and acumen for argument. This breathtaking lecture—"The Motion of the Planets Around the Sun"—uses nothing more advanced than high-school geometry to explain why the planets orbit the sun elliptically rather than in perfect circles, and conclusively demonstrates the astonishing fact that has mystified and intrigued thinkers since Newton: Nature obeys mathematics. David and Judith Goodstein give us a beautifully written short memoir of life with Feynman, provide meticulous commentary on the lecture itself, and relate the exciting story of their effort to chase down one of Feynman's most original and scintillating lectures.

Quantum Theory: Concepts and Methods

Quantum Theory: Concepts and Methods
Author: A. Peres
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages: 463
Release: 2006-06-01
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0306471205

There are many excellent books on quantum theory from which one can learn to compute energy levels, transition rates, cross sections, etc. The theoretical rules given in these books are routinely used by physicists to compute observable quantities. Their predictions can then be compared with experimental data. There is no fundamental disagreement among physicists on how to use the theory for these practical purposes. However, there are profound differences in their opinions on the ontological meaning of quantum theory. The purpose of this book is to clarify the conceptual meaning of quantum theory, and to explain some of the mathematical methods which it utilizes. This text is not concerned with specialized topics such as atomic structure, or strong or weak interactions, but with the very foundations of the theory. This is not, however, a book on the philosophy of science. The approach is pragmatic and strictly instrumentalist. This attitude will undoubtedly antagonize some readers, but it has its own logic: quantum phenomena do not occur in a Hilbert space, they occur in a laboratory.