water waves, 47, 139
Watt, James, 187
wave function, 136
wave-particle duality, 46–55, 139
double-slit experiment, 47–48
weak force, 36, 137, 146, 148
weather forecasting, 179
Weierstrass, Karl Theodor
Wilhelm, 18
Weinberg, Steven, 36, 148
well-ordering principle, 22
Wheeler, John Archibald, 25, 51, 52, 63,
138–39, 140
Wilczek, Frank, 148
Wilczynski, David, xi
Wiles, Andrew, 106, 238
Wilkinson Microwave Anisotropy
Probe, 113Wilson, Robert, 38
Witten, Edward, 142
word problem, 127–29
Wright, Orville and Wilbur, 30
Wynn, Ed, 43Y
Yang-Mills theory, 2
Young, H. Peyton, 233
Young, Thomas, 47, 48Z
Zermelo, Ernst, 24
Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory (ZFC), 24,
25, 33, 117, 127, 240
axiom of infinity, 130264 Index