Cranks, Quarks and the Cosmos: Writings on Science

by JeremyBernstein (Author)

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  Paperback
  1997

  $3.25

  Asking How can we be sure that Albert Einstein was not a crank? , this book looks at the history of science from a general perspective. It includes an autobiographical account of how the author became science writer for the New Yorker , and a series of profiles of famous scientists from Einstein, Neils Bohr and Alan Turing to Primo Levi, Edwin Land and Sophia Kovalevsky.