Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- I The uses of abstraction
- II Meditations on measurement
- 5 Biology in a darkened room
- 6 Physics in a darkened room
- 7 Subtle is the Lord
- 8 A Quaker mathematician
- 9 Richardson on war
- III The pleasures of computation
- IV Enigma variations
- V The pleasures of thought
- Appendix 1 Further reading
- Appendix 2 Some notations
- Appendix 3 Sources
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgements
6 - Physics in a darkened room
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2014
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- I The uses of abstraction
- II Meditations on measurement
- 5 Biology in a darkened room
- 6 Physics in a darkened room
- 7 Subtle is the Lord
- 8 A Quaker mathematician
- 9 Richardson on war
- III The pleasures of computation
- IV Enigma variations
- V The pleasures of thought
- Appendix 1 Further reading
- Appendix 2 Some notations
- Appendix 3 Sources
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgements
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- The Pleasures of Counting , pp. 116 - 136Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 1996