A witty welcome to a weird world Quantum Physics for Poets Leon M. Lederman and Christopher T. Hill Prometheus Books, Amherst, NY, 2011. $28.00 (338 pp.). ISBN 978-1-61614-233-9 Reviewed by Robert March Anyone who is likely to open the covers of Quantum Physics for Poets has probably heard that the quantum theory is weird. Leon Lederman and Christopher Hill do not hesitate to tackle that weirdness head on. It is introduced in the very first chapter, even before the exposition of the theory has begun. The intended audience is clearly the well-educated lay reader who may have read or heard of quantum paradoxes in the popular press and is looking for a more systematic treatment. But I would also recommend this book to undergraduate physics majors who are struggling to master the machinery of quantum physics and would like to have a context in which to put their efforts. The exposition unfolds in a conventional historical narrative, with a heavy reliance on double-slit interference as a central pedagogical device. The treatment is almost entirely nonmathematical. The writing is lucid and makes good use of the whimsical âborscht circuitâ humor for which Lederman is justly famous among his colleagues.
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