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Preface | |
Part I. Reflections on the Pursuit of Physics: 1. E. pluribus boojum: the physicist as neologist | |
2. Commencement address | |
3. One of the great physicists ... and great characters | |
4. My life with Landeau | |
5. What's wrong with this lagrangean? | |
6. What's wrong with this library? | |
7. What's wrong with this prose? | |
8. What's wrong with these equations? | |
9. What's wrong with these prizes? | |
Part II. The Quantum Theory: 10. Quantum mysteries for anyone | |
11. Can you help your team tonight by watching on TV? | |
12. Spooky actions at a distance: mysteries of the quantum | |
13. A bolt from the blue: The Eistein-Podolsky-Rosen paradox | |
14. The philosophical writings of Neils Bohr | |
15. The great quantum muddle | |
16. What's wrong with this pillow? | |
Part III. Relativity: 17. Cruel nature: a relativistic tragicomedy | |
18. The amazing many coloured relativity engine | |
19. Relativistic addition of velocities directly from the constancy of the velocity of light | |
20. Relativity without light | |
21. E = Mc2 (written with M. J. Feigenbaum) | |
Part IV Mathematical Musings: 22. Logarithms! | |
23. Stirling's formula! | |
24. Pi in the sky | |
25. Variational principles in dynamics and quantum theory | |
26. Special functions: a group theoretic approach. |
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