Isbn: 9780828403092 - quest: an autobiography (6 risultati)

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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. Condizione sovraccoperta: Very Good Dust Jacket. 361 pp. Tightly bound. Corners not bumped. There is one light bump to the lower edge of the front board. Text is free of markings. Owner's name top right corner front end paper. Very good dust jacket. Jacket is not price clipped. This copy is smyth sewn. Smyth sewing is a method of bookbinding where groups of folded pages (referred to as signatures) are stitched together using binder thread. Each folded signature is sewn together individually with multiple stitches and then joined with other signatures to create the complete book block. This is the traditional and best method of bookbinding.…

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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. Condizione sovraccoperta: Good. Second Edition. Very Good+ in a Good DJ: The Book shows mild shelf-rubbing along the bottom edge of the boards and a touch of crimp to the heel of the back-strip; the binding leans while remaining secure; the text is clean. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. Free of ownership names, dates, addresses, notations, inscriptions, stamps, or labels. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing the noted imperfections only. Bright and clean. Corners sharp. The DJ shows considerable wear along the top edges of the panels with several short tears and a longer 2" closed tear to the rear panel; just a touch of wear to the heel of the back-strip; the price ($14.95) is intact. Serviceable. NOT a Remainder, Book-Club, or Ex-Library. Large 8vo (9.25 x 6.25 x 1 inches). Language: English. Weight: 25.5 ounces. Chesea's customary deep-red cloth over boards with gilt titles at the back-strip. Hardback with DJ. The first edition of Quest was published when Infield was forty-three years old, that is, before he became famous. At the time, he was an unknown physicist, newly married, and starting his second year as instructor at the University of Toronto. His only claim to public notice was that he had written a book together with Albert Einstein (The Evolution of Physics, Albert Einstein and Leopold Infield, New York, 1938). The second part of this edition of Quest, written when Infield was sixty-seven, tells of the events of the quarter century since the first edition was published, including the sensational events that attended his leaving of Canada to return to his native Poland. Leopold Infield was one of the nine eminent scientists who, together with Albert Einstein, signed Bertrand Russell's famous letter warning that in this nuclear age, only a ban on war itself could save this planet (July, 1955). Infield was born in the Jewish ghetto of Cracow, Poland in 1898, and this autobiography contains a vivid description of this long-since-vanished world. He was assistant to and then a scientific collaborator with Albert Einstein at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ (1936--1938) , and this collaboration continued for twelve years while Infield was at the University of Toronto. In 1938 he wrote a book together with Albert Einstein that became a number one bestseller, The Evolution of Physics. Infield was lecturer and then Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University of Toronto from 1938--1950. From 1945--1950 he gave many lectures all over Canada on the elementary physics of the atom bomb, warning that Russia would soon have the bomb and urging that the short period of U. S. Monopoly be used constructively, for peace. In 1950 he left Canada to become Professor of Theoretical Physics at the University of Warsaw as well as the founding director of the Institute of Theoretical Physics at that university, where he remained until 1967, the year before he died. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 361 pages.…

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