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by Manjit Kumar (Author)
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  • Hardcover: 480 pages
  • Publisher: Icon Books Ltd (2 Oct 2008)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1848310293
  • ISBN-13: 978-1848310292
  • Product Dimensions: 23.6 x 14.6 x 4.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
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'An exhaustive and brilliant account of decades of emotionally charged discovery and argument, friendship and rivalry spanning two world wars.' Steven Poole, Guardian --Guardian, 15th November 2008

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'Kumar is an accomplished writer who knows how to separate the excitement of the chase from the sometimes impenetrable mathematics. In Quantum he tells the story of the conflict between two of the most powerful intellects of their day: the hugely famous Einstein and the less well-known but just as brilliant Dane, Niels Bohr.'

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5.0 out of 5 stars Quantum, 22 Jun 2009
By R. D. Brislin - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Quantum: Einstein, Bohr and the Great Debate About the Nature of Reality (Paperback)
I have always been fascinated by how 'it' all fits together, but struggle to find the time to concentrate on dry theoretical texts. It was therefore with great delight that I found myself engrossed in Quantum on the tube, the bus and even occasionally the walk in between. Manjit Kumar's writing eases you effortlessly into the some of the most complex ideas in physics by juxtaposing the personal stories of the authors playing out through the 20th century with the theories themselves. Sufficient detail is provided to challenge all but the most experienced reader, and a comprehensive references list encourages further exploration for those who need to dig even deeper. While having to admit to only momentary glimpses of both the elusive beauty, and the black hole enveloped by quantum theory, I felt strangely comforted that even Einstein struggled to fully embrace such a world.

Highly recommended
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5.0 out of 5 stars Quantum Theory - The Human Story, 17 Oct 2008
By Jenny Gardener (London) - See all my reviews
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This is fascinating book written as a narrative history of those scientists who contributed to the development of Quantum Theory - one of the most important challenges to orthodox thinking in the whole history of ideas.

The book does a very good job of establishing how classical physics of the 19th Century was seen as completed and except for a few minor details that needed tidying up, the consensus was that nothing really fundamental at a theoretical level was left to discover.
Kumar explores how this certainty that physics was done and dusted came to unravel and how an idea as counter intuitive as the quantum came to be accepted by most physicists.

This manner of exploring quantum theory through its historical development allows anyone with a basic grasp of science to understand why it is so revolutionary in its implications. At the centre of this story is the struggle between Albert Einstein and Niels Bohr about what our attitude to the reality should be.

Mixing historical narrative with the scientific ideas that were in contention brings quantum theory to a much broader audience of readers than is generally possible with this sort of material.

Part social history, part popular science as well as raising questions of a philosophical nature - this makes a cracking read and comes highly recommended.

Jenny Gardener
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5.0 out of 5 stars On safer ground, 24 Jun 2009
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Until I read Quantum, I had never appreciated how the theory had been developed and quite which scientists and mathematicians had contributed to the process. I had, I suppose, been expecting enlightenment along those lines, but Kumar's book also filled in the gaps in my layman's grasp of the theory itself, so that - for a non-scientist and non-mathematician - I feel altogether on safer ground.
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