e-branch
Login
My List - 0
Help
Home
My Account/Renew Loans
Community Info
KidSearch
New Catalogue!
Search
Advanced
By Format
By Number
My Searches
Can't Find it?
Find Magazine Articles & more
Problems?
Search:
Call Number
Item Barcode
Bib Number
ISBN/ISSN
Refine Search
> You're searching:
Halifax Public Libraries
Item Information
Copy / Holding Information
Choice Review
Library Journal Review
Publisher Weekly Review
More Content
More by this author
Alexander, Stephon.
Subjects
Cosmology.
Special relativity (Physics)
Space and time.
Musicology.
Music -- Acoustics and physics.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Universe.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Alexander, Stephon.
by title:
The jazz of physics ...
by call number:
523.1 A378j
Search the Web
Alexander, Stephon.
Cosmology.
Special relativity (Physics)
Space and time.
Musicology.
Music -- Acoustics and physics.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Universe.
MARC Display
The jazz of physics : the secret link between music and the structure of the universe / Stephon Alexander.
by
Alexander, Stephon.
Basic Books, a member of Perseus Books Group, [2016]
Call #:
523
.1
A378j
Subjects
Cosmology.
Special relativity (Physics)
Space and time.
Musicology.
Music -- Acoustics and physics.
Music -- Philosophy and aesthetics.
Universe.
ISBN:
9780465034994 (hc.)
Description:
viii, 254 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Giant Steps -- Lessons from Leon -- All Rivers Lead to Cosmic Structure -- Beauty on Trial -- Pythagorean Dream -- Eno, the Sound Cosmologist -- Thriving on a Riff -- The Ubiquity Vibration -- The Defiant Physicists -- The Space We Live In -- Sonic Black Hole -- The Harmony of Cosmic Structure -- A Journey into Mark Turner's Quantum Brain -- Feynman's Jazz Pattern -- Cosmic Resonance -- The Beauty of Noise -- The Musical Universe -- Interstellar Space.
Summary:
Physicist and jazz musician Stephon Alexander uses jazz to answer physics' most vexing questions about the past and future of the universe. This cosmological journey accompanies Alexander's own tale of struggling to reconcile his passion for music and physics, from taking music lessons as a boy in the Bronx to studying theoretical physics at Imperial College, London's inner sanctum of string theory. Playing the saxophone and improvising with equations, Alexander uncovered the connection between the fundamental waves that make up sound and the fundamental waves that make up everything else. As he reveals, the ancient poetic idea of the "music of the spheres," taken seriously, clarifies confounding issues in physics. Stephon Alexander is a professor of Physics at Brown University. He is also a jazz musician and recently finished recording his first electronic jazz album with Erin Rioux. Alexander lives in Providence, Rhode Island.
Holds:
0
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Item type
Status
Due Date
Tantallon Public Library
Adult Black Nonfiction
523.1 A378j
Adult books
Checked out
Jul 10, 2024
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.24_8902M
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.