| MR Tompkins Learns the Facts of Life Contributor(s): Gamow, George (Author) |
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ISBN: 1107402077 ISBN-13: 9781107402072 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $18.99 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Science | Life Sciences - Developmental Biology |
| Dewey: 813.52 |
| Physical Information: 0.28" H x 6" W x 9" (0.40 lbs) 116 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: George Gamow's first Tompkins book, Mr Tompkins in Wonderland, created a 'toy universe' where, as his son comments in the preface to this 2010 reprint, 'the maximum speed of light is assumed to be 10 miles per hour, while all the laws of general relativity still hold'. Since the death of the author in 1968, the Mr Tompkins series has gone through a number of reincarnations. The latest reincarnation, The Adventures of Mr Tompkins (www.theadventuresofmrtompkins.com), has Mr Tompkins not only visiting physicists, well also one biologist in Mr Tompkins Learns the Facts of Life but he also visits a slew of scientists from all branches of science and mathematics, from their very beginnings to the present time, from Aristotle to Watson and Crick. |