Mr Tompkins in Paperback Book Review

First published in 1940, the eminent Russian cosmologist George Gamow’s character has been a favourite of many.

Mr Tompkins is a bank clerk, whose imaginations are created by Gamow to enable the reader to experience the world of physics and relativity first hand.

Where else could you understand what a world would be like if Nature’s speed limit was lower, allowing relativistic effects to be every day occurrences?

With a foreword by Roger Penrose and the delightful illustrations of the author complemented by those of John Hookham, the volume incorporates the original Mr Tompkins in Wonderland and Mr Tompkins explores the atom.

For those who have never met Mr Tompkins, I urge you to become acquainted.

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