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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Black hole blues Black hole blues Janna Levin "In 1916, Einstein became the first to predict the existence of gravitational waves: sounds without a material medium generated by the unfathomably energy-producing collision of black holes. Now, Jan… OL20030076W
A madman dreams of Turing machines A madman dreams of Turing machines Janna Levin "The narrator is a scientist herself, a physicist obsessed with Kurt Godel, the greatest logician of many centuries, and with Alan Turing, the extraordinary mathematician, breaker of the Enigma Code … OL5843361W
How the Universe Got Its Spots How the Universe Got Its Spots Janna Levin "In prose, Janna Levin's diary of unsent letters to her mother describes what we know about the shape and extent of the universe, about its beginning and its end. She grants the uninitiated access to… OL5843362W