Hans Christian Von Baeyer, Author Harvard University Press $22.95 (258p) ISBN 978-0-674-01387-2
The murky relationship between reality and our knowledge of it is one of philosophy's most famous conundrums. According to this engaging tour of contemporary information science, the question may be moot since, if some theorists are to be believed,""
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Hans Christian Von Baeyer, Author Random House (NY) $25 (256p) ISBN 978-0-679-43342-2
Von Baeyer, a physicist at the College of William and Mary, invites the reader to travel with the illuminati of thermodynamics along their zig-zag path to an understanding of heat, energy and entropy. This improbable journey leads readers through a...
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Hans Christian Von Baeyer, Author, Jack Shepherd, Author Random House (NY) $19 (172p) ISBN 978-0-679-40031-8
Reprinted from the magazines Sciences and Discover , these 17 essays provide elegant, if not fresh, reading. Von Baeyer, a professor of physics at the College of William and Mary, can make such topics as cold dark matter seem both obvious and...
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Hans Christian Von Baeyer, Author, Von Baey Hans Christian, Author Random House (NY) $23 (223p) ISBN 978-0-679-40039-4
Not many physicists these days have Baeyer's assured curiosity, which allows him to borrow a title from Saint-Exupery (``One only understands the things that one tames'') for his discussion of the wraiths and phantoms of nearly 50 years of quantum...
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