One Two Three . . . Infinity
Facts and Speculations of Science
A physicist's tour of large numbers, dimensions and relativity, illustrated by the author.
Gamow was a physicist who could draw, and this 1947 book is his tour of what science had established about numbers, space, time and the atom, illustrated throughout by the author. It has been many readers’ first encounter with the idea that infinities come in different sizes.
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Marcus du Sautoy
Yes, one of the things that really excited me when I read this – again when I was at school – was this idea of infinity. Gamow was a physicist first of all: Mathematics is the language of physics and you can see that through this book. It was where I read for the first time the idea that there could be different sorts of infinity and that was just mind-blowing.
Interview · September 2014
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