Seven Brief Lessons on Physics
2014 book by Carlo Rovelli
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Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Italian: Sette brevi lezioni di fisica) is a short book by the Italian physicist Carlo Rovelli. Originally published in Italian in 2014, by 2021 the book has been translated into 52 languages.[1] More than a million copies have been sold, of which more than 400,000 in Italy.[2]
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| Author | Carlo Rovelli |
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| Original title | Sette brevi lezioni di fisica |
| Language | Italian |
| Subject | Physics |
| Genre | Non-fiction |
| Publisher | Penguin Books (English edition) |
Publication date | 2014 |
| Publication place | Italy |
Published in English | 2015 |
| Media type | Print, Digital |
| Pages | 96 (English edition) |
| ISBN | 9780241235966 (English hardcover edition) |
| Website | sevenbrieflessons |
Overview
The book condenses the revelations of post-Newtonian physics – from Einstein's theory of relativity to quantum mechanics – into seven brief, accessible lessons.[3] These were originally serialised in an Italian newspaper.[4] Rovelli uses a literary approach, for instance, highlighting a year Einstein spent apparently aimlessly with the comment that those who don't waste time, won't get anywhere.[5]
The chapters are:
- The Most Beautiful of Theories
- The Quanta
- The Architecture of the Cosmos
- Particles
- Grains of Space
- Probability, Time and the Heat of Black Holes
- Ourselves
