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Janna J. Levin is a theoretical cosmologist. She holds a PhD in Theoretical Physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology granted in 1993 and a Bachelor of ...
American educator • Author
Area of science:Theoretical physicist • Physicist
Academics of the University of Cambridge • Bachelor of Science
Area of science:Black holes • Theoretical physics
Writer
Skill:Chaos
Award:MEA
The authoritative story of the headline-making discovery of gravitational waves—by an eminent theoretical astrophysicist and award-winning writer.From the author of How the Universe Got Its Spots and A Madman Dreams of Turing Machines, the epic story of the scientific campaign to record the soundtra...
Janna Levin
Hardcover
256
Knopf
0307958191
9780307958198
11
Conventional wisdom says the universe is infinite. But could it be finite, merely giving the illusion of infinity? Modern science is beginning to drag this abstract issue into the realm of the real, the tangible and the observable. HOW THE UNIVERSE GOT ITS SPOTS looks at how science is coming up sha...
Janna Levin
Paperback
224
Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
0753813769
9780753813768
3
Kurt Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems sent shivers through Vienna’s intellectual circles and directly challenged Ludwig Wittgenstein’s dominant philosophy. Alan Turing’s mathematical genius helped him break the Nazi Enigma Code during WWII. Though they never met, their lives strangely mirrored one...
Janna Levin
Paperback
240
Anchor
1400032407
9781400032402
2
Is the universe infinite or just really big? With this question, the gifted young cosmologist Janna Levin not only announces the central theme of her intriguing and controversial new book but establishes herself as one of the most direct and unorthodox voices in contemporary science. For even as sh...
Janna Levin
Paperback
240
Anchor
1400032725
9781400032723
1
Janna Levin
Hardcover
Princeton University Press
20
Janna Levin
Paperback
RANDOM HOUSE
1847924190
9781847924193
19
"Longplayer" is a 1000-year musical composition that runs continuously and without repetition from its start on January 1, 2000 until its completion on December 31, 2999. Through an exploration of generative forms of music, composer/musician Jem Finer attempts to make sense of a millennial span of t...
Jem Finer, Janna Levin, Paul Shepheard, Kodwo Eshun
Paperback
96
Artangel
1902201124
9781902201122
13
In 1931, in Vienna, a young mathematics student proves that there are limits to what we can ever know, stunning Vienna's intellectual circles. During WWII, outside London, an eccentric mathematician builds a machine that helps break the Nazi Enigma Code. These two great geniuses, Kurt Godel and Alan...
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Paperback
Anchor
10
Janna Levin
0297646516
Janna Levin
0691096570
Janna Levin
1902201124