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082			_a500 GAM-O
100			_aGeorge Gamow
245			_a One Two Three Infinity : Facts & Speculations of Science
260			_aNew York _bDover Publications Inc. _c1988
300			_axii, 340p. : ill ; 22 cm
505			_a Playing with numbers. Big numbers ; Natural and artificial numbers -- Space, time & Einstein. Unusual properties of space ; The world of four dimensions ; Relativity of space and time -- Microcosmos. Descending staircase ; Modern alchemy ; The law of disorder ; The riddle of life -- Macrocosmos. Expanding horizons ; The days of creation.
520			_a Nuclear physicist George Gamow takes the reader on an expedition through the problems, pleasures and puzzles of modern science. Among the topics scrutinized are the macrocosm and the microcosm, theory of numbers, relativity of space and time, entropy, genes, atomic structure, nuclear fission, and the origin of the solar system. In the pages of this book readers grapple with such crucial matters as whether it is possible to bend space, why a rocket shrinks, the "end of the world problem," excursions in the fourth dimension and a host of other topics.
650			_a Science -- Popular works.
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