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Informationen zum Autor Leonard Susskind has been the Felix Bloch Professor in theoretical physics at Stanford University since 1978. The author of "The Cosmic Landscape" and "The Black Hole War!" he is a member of the National Academy of Science and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences! and the recipient of numerous prizes including the science writing prize of the American Institute of Physics for his Scientific American article on black holes. He lives in Palo Alto! California. George Hrabovsky is a hacker-physicist in Wisconsin involved in as citizen science! or the community of individuals who do science at home. Since May 1999 he has been the president of Madison Area Science and Technology (MAST)! a nonprofit organization dedicated to scientific and technological research and education. He lives in Madison! Wisconsin. Klappentext Physicist Susskind and hacker-scientist Hrabovsky offer the theoretical minimum of physics that readers need to study more advanced topics. Beginning with classical mechanics! the work ends with discussions of electromagnetic fields and chaos theory.
