The Science of Discworld - Couverture souple

Pratchett, Terry; Stewart, Ian; Cohen, Jack S.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0091886570 ISBN 13 : 9780091886578

Editeur : Ebury Press, 2002

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

When a wizardly experiment goes adrift, the wizards of Unseen University find themselves with a pocket universe on their hands: Roundworld, where neither magic nor common sense seems to stand a chance against logic. The Universe, of course, is our own. And Roundworld is Earth. As the wizards watch their accidental creation grow, we follow the story of our universe from the primal singularity of the Big Bang to the Internet and beyond. Through this original Terry Pratchett story (with intervening chapters from Cohen and Stewart) we discover how puny and insignificant individual lives are against a cosmic backdrop of creation and disaster. Yet, paradoxically, we see how the richness of a universe based on rules, has led to a complex world and at least one species that tried to get a grip of what was going on.

Biographie de l'auteur :

TERRY PRATCHETT is the acclaimed creator of the bestselling Discworld series. He has been appointed OBE and a Knight Bachelor in recognition of his services to literature.

IAN STEWART is a Fellow of the Royal Society, professor of mathematics at the University of Warwick, and author of numerous books on math and popular science, as well as science fiction novels co-authored with Jack Cohen.

JACK COHEN is a professor of biology and honorary professor of mathematics at the University of Warwick, and has co-authored several books with Ian Stewart.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Ebury Press
• Date d'édition: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0091886570
• ISBN 13: 9780091886578
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 2
• Nombre de pages: 416