It takes the average reader 5 hours and 50 minutes to read Butterfly in the Quantum World by Indubala I. Satija
Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more
Butterfly in the Quantum World by Indu Satija, with contributions by Douglas Hofstadter, is the first book ever to tell the story of the "Hofstadter butterfly," a beautiful and fascinating graph lying at the heart of the quantum theory of matter. The butterfly came out of a simple-sounding question: What happens if you immerse a crystal in a magnetic field? What energies can the electrons take on? From 1930 onwards, physicists struggled to answer this question, until 1974, when graduate student Douglas Hofstadter discovered that the answer was a graph consisting of nothing but copies of...
Butterfly in the Quantum World by Indubala I. Satija is 350 pages long, and a total of 87,500 words.
This makes it 118% the length of the average book. It also has 107% more words than the average book.
The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 7 hours and 58 minutes to read Butterfly in the Quantum World aloud.
Butterfly in the Quantum World is suitable for students ages 12 and up.
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