First Light is perhaps the best book about astronomy ever written. It tells the story of the men and women at the Palomar Observatory in the San Gabriel Mountains of California who peer through the amazing Hale Telescope at the farthest edges of space, attempting to solve the riddle of the beginning of time. "Science is a lot weirder and more human than most people realize," Pr...(展开全部)

Seven years before Richard Preston wrote about horrifying viruses in The Hot Zone, he turned his attention to the cosmos. In First Light, he demonstrates his gift for creating an exciting and absorbing narrative around a complex scientific subject--in this case the efforts by astronomers at the Palomar Observatory in the San Gabriel Mountains of California to peer to the farthe...(展开全部)

查尔斯·塞费（Charles Seife）,美国纽约大学新闻系副教授，耶鲁大学数学硕士。《科学》（Science）、《新科学家》（New Scientist）、《科学美国人》（Scientific American）、《经济学家》（The Economist）等多家杂志的撰稿人。著有《零》（Zero）、《解码宇宙》（Decoding the Universe）等作品，曾获得美国笔会玛莎·阿尔布兰德奖。

查尔斯·塞费（Charles Seife）,美国纽约大学新闻系副教授，耶鲁大学数学硕士。《科学》（Science）、《新科学家》（New Scientist）、《科学美国人》（Scientific American）、《经济学家》（The Economist）等多家杂志的撰稿人。著有《零》（Zero）、《解码宇宙》（Decoding the Universe）等作品，曾获得美国笔会玛莎·阿尔布兰德奖。

查尔斯·塞费（Charles Seife）,美国纽约大学新闻系副教授，耶鲁大学数学硕士。《科学》（Science）、《新科学家》（New Scientist）、《科学美国人》（Scientific American）、《经济学家》（The Economist）等多家杂志的撰稿人。著有《零》（Zero）、《解码宇宙》（Decoding the Universe）等作品，曾获得美国笔会玛莎·阿尔布兰德奖。

查尔斯·塞费（Charles Seife）,美国纽约大学新闻系副教授，耶鲁大学数学硕士。《科学》（Science）、《新科学家》（New Scientist）、《科学美国人》（Scientific American）、《经济学家》（The Economist）等多家杂志的撰稿人。著有《零》（Zero）、《解码宇宙》（Decoding the Universe）等作品，曾获得美国笔会玛莎·阿尔布兰德奖。

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as...(展开全部)

Today we are on the verge of discoveries that should soon reveal the deepest secrets of the universe. In Alpha & Omega, Charles Seife takes us to the front lines of the cosmological revolution to synthesize the discoveries of scientists at observatories and laboratories around the world who are actually peering into both the cradle of the universe and its grave. The cast of cha...(展开全部)

Today we are on the verge of discoveries that should soon reveal the deepest secrets of the universe. In Alpha & Omega, Charles Seife takes us to the front lines of the cosmological revolution to synthesize the discoveries of scientists at observatories and laboratories around the world who are actually peering into both the cradle of the universe and its grave. The cast of cha...(展开全部)

Henri Poincar was one of the greatest mathematicians of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He revolutionized the field of topology, which studies properties of geometric configurations that are unchanged by stretching or twisting. The Poincar conjecture lies at the heart of modern geometry and topology, and even pertains to the possible shape of the universe. The ...(展开全部)