Just Six Numbers
$25.60
- Paperback
208 pages
- Release Date
11 May 2015
Summary
The Six Numbers That Shape Our Universe
Astronomer Royal Martin Rees reveals the secrets of the cosmos, explaining how just six numbers can account for the universe’s behaviour and origins.
How did a single genesis event give rise to billions of galaxies, black holes, stars, and planets? How did atoms come together to form living beings capable of contemplating their own existence, both here on Earth and potentially on other worlds? This book unveils the recent flood of disc…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781780226903 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 178022690X |
| Series: | Science Masters |
| Author: | Martin Rees |
| Publisher: | Orion Publishing Co |
| Imprint: | Weidenfeld & Nicolson |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 208 |
| Release Date: | 11 May 2015 |
| Weight: | 185g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 18mm |
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His prose is as sharp as his logic and he provides the reader with endless food for thought - EVENING STANDARD
This book is a small miracle of concise explanation and offers even the most scientifically challenged reader a new perspective on our universe - SUNDAY TIMESAbout The Author
Martin Rees
Sir Martin Rees is an international leader in cosmology. He is Royal Society Research Professor at Cambridge University, and holds the title of Astronomer Royal. Together with his numerous collaborators he has contributed many key ideas on black holes, galaxy formation and high energy astrophysics.
His most recent books are GRAVITY’S FATAL ATTRACTION: BLACK HOLES IN THE UNIVERSE (with Mitchell Begelman), BEFORE THE BEGINNING: OUR UNIVERSE AND OTHERS and JUST SIX NUMBERS: THE DEEP FORCES THAT SHAPE THE UNIVERSE.
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