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A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines by Janna Levin
34.99 NZD
Category: Biographies & Memoirs
This is a remarkable fiction debut from a young female physicist obsessed with two giants of twentieth century science: Kurt Godel, the greatest logician of the age, and Alan Turing, the breaker of the Enigma code. Janna Levin tells their parallel lives in a haunting story of tortured genius, persecutio ...Show more
Black Hole Blues & Other Songs/Outer Spa by Janna Levin
40.00 NZD
Category: Science
The full inside story of the detection of gravitational waves at LIGO, one of the most ambitious feats in scientific history. Travel around the world 100 billion times. A strong gravitational wave will briefly change that distance by less than the thickness of a human hair. We have perhaps less than a f ...Show more
Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space by Janna Levin
28.00 NZD
Category: Science
"This is empirical poetry. A fascinating tale of human curiosity beautifully told, and with black holes and lasers too." (Robin Ince). Travel around the world 100 billion times. A strong gravitational wave will briefly change that distance by less than the thickness of a human hair. We have perhaps less ...Show more
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