What Is the Universe ? / Qu'est-ce que l'Univers ?: UTLS, volume 4

The most renowned French specialists in their fields have contributed to this fourth volume in the series. The present collection sheds light on the major issues raised by cosmology, the solar system, the stars and the galaxies, the earth, the oceans and the climate, matter and its organisation, complexity, chemical transformations and the development of mathematics.With contributions from Andr? Ambles, Alain Aspect, Jean Audouze, Roger Balian, S?bastien Balibar, Eva Bayer, Philippe Biane, Jean-Pierre Bibring, Michel Blay, Jean-Pierre Bourguignon, Andr? Brahic, ?douard Brezin, Michel Campillo, Michel Cass?, Patrick Chaquin, Claude Cohen-Tannoudji, Fran?ois Combes, Alain Connes, Thibault Damour, Stanislas Dehaene, Ivar Ekeland, Hubert Flocard, Uriel Frisch, ?lisabeth Giacobino, Jean-Yves Girard, Henri Godfrin, Denis Gratias, ?tienne Guyon, Serge Haroche, Yves Hellegouarch, Claude Jaupart, Thierry Juteau, Jean-Pierre Kahane, Patrick de Kepper, ?tienne Klein, Marc Lachi?ze-Rey, Jean-Louis Le Mouel, Xavier Le Pichon, Christian Le Provost, Michel Lesieur, Herv? Le Treut, Jean-Pierre Lehn, Jacques Lewiner, Pierre-Louis Lions, Jean-Pierre Luminet, Jean-Paul Malrieu, Benoit Mandelbrot, Ghislain de Marsily, Jean-Louis Martin, Philippe Masson, Yves Meyer, Christian Minot, Jean-Fran?ois Minster, Andr? Neveux, Yves Petroff, Joel Picault, Marie Pil?ni, Michel Pi?cuch, Jim Ritter, Dimitri Rodichev, David Ruelle, Robert Sadourny, Olivier Talagrand, Catherine Thibault, Jacques Tits, Daniel Treille, Nguyen Trong Anh, Fran?ois Vannucci, Sylvie Vauclair, Michel Verdaguer, Alfred Vidal-Madjar, Laurent Vigroux, Claude Weisbuch.

Author: Yves Michaud

Publisher: Odile Jacob

Publication Date: Jan 25, 2001

Number of Pages: 1008 pages

Binding: Paperback or Softback

ISBN-10: 2738109179

ISBN-13: 9782738109170