ISBN-13: 9781105925306 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 198 str.
Peter Leroy finally completes a junior-high-school science assignment, thirty years late, exploring along the way quantum physics, entropy, epistemology, principles of uncertainty and discontinuity, a range of life's Big Questions, and his memories of his intoxicating science teacher, Miss Rheingold. "Warm . . . thought-provoking . . . charming . . . delightful." Library Journal (starred review) "A book designed to leave its readers-and it deserves many of them-as happy as clams." Walter Satterthwait, The New York Times Book Review "Luminously intelligent fun." Time
Peter Leroy finally completes a junior-high-school science assignment, thirty years late, exploring along the way quantum physics, entropy, epistemology, principles of uncertainty and discontinuity, a range of lifes Big Questions, and his memories of his intoxicating science teacher, Miss Rheingold."Warm . . . thought-provoking . . . charming . . . delightful." Library Journal (starred review)"A book designed to leave its readers-and it deserves many of them-as happy as clams."Walter Satterthwait, The New York Times Book Review "Luminously intelligent fun."Time