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The New World of Mr Tompkins: George Gamow's Classic Mr Tompkins in Paperback
George Gamow
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The New World of Mr Tompkins: George Gamow's Classic Mr Tompkins in Paperback
George Gamow
An inspirational introduction to the physics of the twenty-first century, Mr Tompkins explores the extreme edges of the universe to understand Einstein's relativity, the birth of the universe and more. In this 1999 edition, Russell Stannard (the Uncle Albert Trilogy) has revised, updated and expanded George Gamow's book Mr Tompkins in Paperback (1965).
272 pages, 53 b/w illus. 2 tables
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | September 16, 1999 |
| ISBN13 | 9780521630092 |
| Publishers | Cambridge University Press |
| Pages | 272 |
| Dimensions | 223 × 146 × 26 mm · 484 g |
| Language | English |
| Translator | Bozhe, Wu |
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