How Long to Read The Butterfly in the Quantum World

How Long Does it Take to Read The Butterfly in the Quantum World?

It takes the average reader 7 hours and 29 minutes to read The Butterfly in the Quantum World by Indubala I Satija

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

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 itself nested down infinitely many times. This wild mathematical object caught the physics world totally by surprise, and it continues to mesmerize physicists and mathematicians today. The butterfly plot is intimately related to many other important phenomena in number theory and physics, including Apollonian gaskets, the Foucault pendulum, quasicrystals, the quantum Hall effect, and many more. Its story reflects the magic, the mystery, and the simplicity of the laws of nature, and Indu Satija, in a wonderfully personal style, relates this story, enriching it with a vast number of lively historical anecdotes, many photographs, beautiful visual images, and even poems, making her book a great feast, for the eyes, for the mind and for the soul.

How long is The Butterfly in the Quantum World?

The Butterfly in the Quantum World by Indubala I Satija is 437 pages long, and a total of 112,309 words.

This makes it 147% the length of the average book. It also has 137% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Butterfly in the Quantum World Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 10 hours and 13 minutes to read The Butterfly in the Quantum World aloud.

What Reading Level is The Butterfly in the Quantum World?

The Butterfly in the Quantum World is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

Note that there may be other factors that effect this rating besides length that are not factored in on this page. This may include things like complex language or sensitive topics not suitable for students of certain ages.

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Where Can I Buy The Butterfly in the Quantum World?

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