From Aristotle to Schrödinger: The Curiosity of Physics offers a novel introduction to the topics commonly encountered in the first two years of an undergraduate physics course, including classical mechanics, thermodynamics and statistical mechanics, electromagnetism, relativity, quantum mechanics, atomic and molecular physics, and astrophysics. The book presents physics as it ...(展开全部)

Beloved MIT professor Walter Lewin, whose riveting physics lectures have made him a YouTube super-star, offers a mind-opening and delightful journey through the most intriguing discoveries in physics. A wonderful raconteur, Lewin takes readers on a marvellous journey with him in For the Love of Physics, opening our eyes as never before to the amazing beauty and power of all tha...(展开全部)

Largely autobiographical account of the author’s life as one who fell in love first with physics and then with teaching physics to students.

李 • 斯莫林（Lee Smolin）  1955年出生于美国，拥有罕布什尔学院学士学位和哈佛大学博士学位，在普林斯顿高等研究院、圣巴巴拉理论物理研究所以及芝加哥大学做博士后；曾任教于耶鲁大学、雪城大学和宾夕法尼亚州立大学。现任加拿大圆周理论物理研究所研究员、滑铁卢大学物理系客座教授、多伦多大学哲学系研究生导师。  美国知名理论物理学家，圈量子引力论创始人之一， 被誉为“现今最具原创力的理论学家之一”。  畅销书作家，著有多本科普图书，因其对“前沿物理大众科普的卓越贡献”，荣获由美国物理教师联合会颁发的克洛普•斯特格纪念奖（Klopp Steg Memorial Award）。

李 • 斯莫林（Lee Smolin）  1955年出生于美国，拥有罕布什尔学院学士学位和哈佛大学博士学位，在普林斯顿高等研究院、圣巴巴拉理论物理研究所以及芝加哥大学做博士后；曾任教于耶鲁大学、雪城大学和宾夕法尼亚州立大学。现任加拿大圆周理论物理研究所研究员、滑铁卢大学物理系客座教授、多伦多大学哲学系研究生导师。  美国知名理论物理学家，圈量子引力论创始人之一， 被誉为“现今最具原创力的理论学家之一”。  畅销书作家，著有多本科普图书，因其对“前沿物理大众科普的卓越贡献”，荣获由美国物理教师联合会颁发的克洛普•斯特格纪念奖（Klopp Steg Memorial Award）。

From one of our foremost thinkers and public intellectuals, a radical new view of the nature of time and the cosmos What is time? This deceptively simple question is the single most important problem facing science as we probe more deeply into the fundamentals of the universe. All of the mysteries physicists and cosmologists face—from the Big Bang to the future of the universe,...(展开全部)

Review A dark horse, only in that one might not expect a book by Einstein to be a sales possibility for the layman. And that is what this is. It is ideal for the layman,and he needs little or no previous knowledge of the subject if he is willing to give the successive pages of the volume his careful attention. There is no necessity of struggling with mathematical equations, tho...(展开全部)

This is a 1988 philosophical introduction to Aristotle, and Professor Lear starts where Aristotle himself starts. The first sentence of the Metaphysics states that all human beings by their nature desire to know. But what is it for us to be animated by this desire in this world? What is it for a creature to have a nature; what is our human nature; what must the world be like t...(展开全部)