Robert Oerter
Auteur de The Theory of Almost Everything: The Standard Model, the Unsung Triumph of Modern Physics
Œuvres de Robert Oerter
The Theory of Almost Everything: The Standard Model, the Unsung Triumph of Modern Physics (2006) 285 exemplaires
The Theory of Almost Everything: The Standard Model, the Unsung Triumph of Modern Physics (2006) 8 exemplaires
The Theory of Almost Everything 1 exemplaire
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- Œuvres
- 4
- Membres
- 295
- Popularité
- #79,435
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 4
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- 6
- Langues
- 2
Its style is at times rather personal and irreverent, which I always love in a popular science book - why hide your own personality behind ideas? Let it out and use it as a hook to further engage the reader. Oerter at times shies away from taking a historical view of the subject, but breaks this rule frequently when it will help explain the science, or even just add some context to it. I was very happy for this somewhat flexible approach as well.
Much of the science is explained clearly, with little or no mathematics, but my only gripe with the book was that there were some ideas that were just too obscure and difficult to follow. This is more true of the latter part of the book than the former. I was left wondering if there is any hope for a layperson to grasp these ideas without the maths, or if Oerter could have made these concepts clearer.
Still, despite the odd somewhat impenetrable passage, I think this is a wonderful book for expanding one's knowledge about modern physics. And it's made me feel confident enough now to search for deeper explanations, either in popular science books with more maths, or physics text books.
(Any recommendations for the next stage would be greatly received!)… (plus d'informations)