books about: theoretical     books:       Black Holes and Time Warps: Einstein's Outrageous Legacy (Commonwealth Fund Book Program)82 reviews Kip S. Thorne W W Norton & Co Inc, 1994 The science behind the movie "Contact" When Carl Sagan wanted to have his fictional herione from Contact travel in time, he turned to Kip Thorne. This book is Thorne's attempt to more fully explain the science of time travel. And in the process Thorne takes you to the prediction and discovery of black holes. First seriously suggested by the theories of Albert Einstein, a black hole is a star that has grown so massive (at ...             Quaternions and Rotation Sequences: A Primer with Applications to Orbits, Aerospace and Virtual Reality30 reviews J. B. Kuipers Princeton University Press, 2002 All four elements... Quaternions are not as intuitive as 3x3 matrices however this book give a strong understanding of quaternions so that the reader can let go of the 3x3 matrix and successfully, in my case at least, change over to only using quaternions. This has proven useful in my simulations for, and firmware code for, satellite attitude determination and control. In the version I have of this book, there are ...             Mathematical Methods of Classical Mechanics (Graduate Texts in Mathematics)12 reviews V. I. Arnold Springer, 1997 Encyclopedic Extremely stimulating, uses Galileo to motivate Newton's laws instead of postulating them. Treatment of Bertrand's theorem is beautiful, but contains one error (took me 2 years before I realized where..). However, I know of only one physicist who successully worked out all the missing steps and taught from this book. I know mathematicians who have cursed it. I used/use it for inspiration. The ...             The New Time Travelers: A Journey to the Frontiers of Physics11 reviews David Toomey W. W. Norton, 2007 A fact-filled scientific adventure A gripping read about what is often a daunting topic, Time Travelers takes us on an intellectual and imaginative journey through science, science fiction, and the lives of scientists. Books on these topics can often be obscure or overly fanciful. This one is delightfully alive, and Toomey is never less than careful in both the physics and speculations about time travel. A lesser writer would ...             Time: A Traveler's Guide17 reviews Clifford A. Pickover Oxford University Press, USA, 1999 Quantum Physics Can Be Fun An outstanding book - I have never before read a book that dealt with such advanced concepts that was so easy to read and comprehend and as hard to put down (I read it in a weekend). Dr. Pickover's style of making the first half of each chapter a sci-fi story, with the second half "the science behind the story" makes this book fun and teaches you without having to work. Definately inspires ...             Protective Groups in Organic Synthesis11 reviews Theodora W. Greene, Peter G. M. Wuts Wiley-Interscience, 1999 A must have for any synthetic laboratory There are other protecting group books out there but I found this one to be the most comprehensive and easy to use.             Introduction to Quantum Mechanics with Applications to Chemistry15 reviews Linus Pauling, E. Bright Wilson Dover Publications, 1985 Outstanding and a classic, however not for beginners, don't let "introduction" fool you! :) As an alum holding both undergrad and graduate degrees in a related field, I figured I would pick this title up for some pretty heavy reading. I was right. Even thought the title says "an introduction", there are several pre-requisites to understanding Quantum Mechanics, and the style of Linus Pauling's writing in general. The book reads very much like a textbook, and I would suggest at least ...             Methods in Modern Biophysics11 reviews Bengt Nölting Springer, 2003 A fantastic textbook for Biophysics This is a fantastic textbook on biophysics methods and techniques. I found it particularly useful for those who are theoreticians and computer modelers. As a theoretical biophysicist, I work on protein folding, protein structure prediction and ligand-receptor binding studies, and I was constantly looking for a book which contains all important and up-to-date experimental methods and techniques to ...             Probability Theory: The Logic of Science16 reviews E. T. Jaynes Cambridge University Press, 2003 Engaging, Infuriating, Always Challenging I've never seen another book like this. Jaynes definitely has an agenda, but he justifies his viewpoint through an amazingly deep tour of probability theory. Not every viewpoint he expresses is convincing (such as his view that quantum theory is inherently probabilistic only because physicists are lazy), but he always raises deep and interesting questions while teaching the ideas. If you can ...             Thinking Physics: Practical Lessons in Critical Thinking20 reviews Lewis C. Epstein Insight Pr, 2002 Thought Experiments in Physics This book by Epstein is one of my better investments for secondary school (or undergraduate/graduate) physics books. Although I do not use it as a text, I have taken advantage of the problems posed within as warm-up questions to engage the students on the topics at hand(in addition to the hands-on demonstrations.) My students can really get fired up by some of the classical problems and the ...             Entropy Demystified: The Second Law Reduced to Plain Common Sense9 reviews Arieh Ben-Naim World Scientific Publishing Company, 2008 Entropy - no big deal "... Arieh Ben-Naim invites the reader to experience the joy of appreciating something which has eluded understanding for many years -entropy and the second law of thermodynamics". This statement on the back cover for sure will reflect the experience of many who read this book. I highly recommend it to anyone who wants to understand or teach the mysterious concept "entropy". Just sit back, open ...             Breaking the Time Barrier: The Race to Build the First Time Machine8 reviews Jenny Randles Pocket, 2005 A Glimpse of the Future, or the past, or all of the Above? I adore books like this, stretching one's concepts beyond their comfort zone to consider new possibilities. At the same time, however, I feel compelled to approach such works as "Breaking the Time Barrier" with a healthy measure of skepticism. Of course, most people believe that crossing boundaries of time is impossible, although from a theoretical perspective it appears possible at the same time ...             Quantum Field Theory10 reviews Mark Srednicki Cambridge University Press, 2007 If only this book were available when I was in CalTech Phd program I was at Caltech 1984-86 in Phd. theoretical physics program and they were still using Bjorken & Drell and then Ramond for the final quarter - I fell behind when we hit chapter 8 renormalization never caught up and to my regret dropped out and became a professional high limit poker player. Every few years I would buy another QFT text - I tried them all (Peskin & Schroeder, Ryder, kaku, Weinberg, ...             Molecular Modeling and Simulation10 reviews Tamar Schlick Springer, 2002 A long expected book in molecular modeling is finally here I highly recommend Professor T. Schlick's book. It is beautifully written with many examples and great illustrations. The book is truly interdisciplinary; it covers, in good depth, both the biological and mathematical aspects of computational structural biology. Most chapters start with an amenable introduction and finish with "hands-on" recommendations and future challenges. I was particularly ...             Statistical Physics, Part 2: Volume 9 (Pt 2) (Pt 2)6 reviews L. P. Pitaevskii, E.M. Lifshitz Butterworth-Heinemann, 1980 Unrivalled Masterpiece This book is a classic, especially in the sense it is somewhat old fashioned in its basic approaches when compared with newer books. For example it examines statistics and entropy from the ergodic as opposed to the ensemble approach. Information Theory and role of symmetry and symmetry breaking is not treated in detail. However I can't hold these omissions against the book since these ...             The Chemistry Maths Book7 reviews Erich Steiner Oxford University Press, USA, 1996 a good book to have when you're taking pchem I initially got this book because my math skills were shaky and being a chem major, I knew that shaky math skills would not suffice. I took a calculus course and glanced through the book, but didn't really use it so much. Then I took pchem. This book was a life saver, seriously. All the math and the equations that seem to come from nowhere in pchem books are deeply explored, derived and ...             Arnold Schoenberg (Theoretical Astrophysics)6 reviews Charles Rosen University Of Chicago Press, 1996 Best starting and ending point for Schoenberg Robert Craft was on the money in his description of this monograph as "one of the most brilliant ever to be published on any composer, let alone the most difficult master of the present age." Stripping away any unnecessary biographical details, Mr. Rosen gives a surprisingly deep and insightful chronicle (for so short a book) of both the music of Schoenberg and that of his contemporaries. ...             Fractals, Chaos, Power Laws: Minutes from an Infinite Paradise10 reviews Manfred Robert Schroeder W H Freeman & Co (Sd), 1991 A comprehensive introduction to chaos in two levels This book can be read in two different ways: The first one is intended for the uninitiated who wants to get an introduction to chaos and fractals; the way Schroeder guides you into the chaotic phenomenae that occur everywhere around us is clear, elegant and funny. He plays with chaos and makes the reader part of this game. The second way to read this book includes a warning for scholars: This is ...             Fluid Mechanics (Course of Theoretical Physics)8 reviews L. D. Landau, E. M. Lifshitz Elsevier, 1959 An Important Book in Physics Landau & Lifshz "Course of Theoretical Physics" is a famous and respected set of books in Physics. Unfortunately, Butterworth-Heinemann, who currently prints those books in English, prints them with very poor quality. The books seem to be "printed" in old copy machines and the paper used is also a cheap one. In many pages, it is really hard to read the text, due to such poor printing.             Handbook of ornament ;: A grammar of art, industrial and architectural designing in all its branches for ...6 reviews Franz Sales Meyer E. Weyhe, 1894 Indispensable Ornamental Design Resource Not only does this book contain a huge assortment of extremely clean and scannable examples of ornamental designs from different periods and cultures, but also provides diagrams and information you can use to create your own original designs in a given style. 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