The Science of Discworld

Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart, Jack S. Cohen (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

416 Seiten

2002 | 2nd Revised edition
Ebury Press (Verlag)
978-0-09-188657-8 (ISBN)

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When a wizardly experiment goes adrift, the wizards of Unseen University find themselves with a pocket universe on their hands: Roundworld. 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 singularity of the Big Bang to the Internet.

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.

Terry Pratchett is the bestselling author of the Discworld novels. Ian Stewart is Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick. Jack Cohen is a biologist and science writer.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.5.2002
Zusatzinfo	illustrations
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	110 x 178 mm
Gewicht	227 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch
	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Astronomie / Astrophysik
ISBN-10	0-09-188657-0 / 0091886570
ISBN-13	978-0-09-188657-8 / 9780091886578
Zustand	Neuware