El nuevo breviario del señor Tompkins

By George Gamow

Ameno breviario dedicado a develar en un tono incluso humorístico y de cuento los principios operativos de la física moderna. Los ensayos aquí expuestos ponen al alcance del lector los fenómenos de la fisión y la fusión atómicas, el comportamiento de las partículas elementales de la materia y las leyes que rigen el funcionamiento del cosmos.

• Language: Español
• Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Económica
• Release date: Feb 5, 2013
• ISBN: 9786071613066

Reviews for El nuevo breviario del señor Tompkins

[anome_1 · Rating: 1 out of 5 stars]

George Gamow's Mr Tompkins was a fascinating attempt to explain modern Physics to a wide audience without getting bogged down in technical detail. Gamow's use of analogy and simplification works well, and really does explain where Physics was at at the time it was written.However, some of the attitudes and even the theories now look somewhat dated. Times have changed, and Physics and society have changed too.So some bright spark thought "Let's update Gamow's work for the present." An admirable idea, but unfortunately one doomed in the execution.In an attempt to make the female character less of a bystander, she's become a strong, independent woman who is often thrust into situations where she is not required just to prove how strong and independent she is. It reads as if it was updated by skimming over some feminist articles from the 70s and injecting the ideas at random. The impact this has on the remainder of the prose is irredeemable.Get the original. Even with it's dated ideas on society and women, it's much better than this.