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21 produkter
Why Science Does Not Disprove God
E-bok, 2014
103 kr
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The bestselling author "wields impressive intellectual weapons in demolishing the New Atheists'' claims that science has disproven the existence of God" (Booklist, starred review).The renowned science writer, mathematician, and bestselling author of Fermat''s Last Theorem masterfully refutes the …
Descartes's Secret Notebook
A True Tale of Mathematics, Mysticism, and the Quest to Understand the Universe
E-bok, 2009
106 kr
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René Descartes (1596—1650) is one of the towering and central figures in Western philosophy and mathematics. His apothegm “Cogito, ergo sum” marked the birth of the mind-body problem, while his creation of so-called Cartesian coordinates has made our intellectual conquest of physical space …
Present at the Creation
Discovering the Higgs Boson
E-bok, 2010
121 kr
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The Large Hadron Collider is the biggest, and by far the most powerful, machine ever built. A project of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, its audacious purpose is to re-create, in a 16.5-mile-long circular tunnel under the French-Swiss countryside, the immensely hot and dense …
Cave and the Cathedral
How a Real-Life Indiana Jones and a Renegade Scholar Decoded the Ancient Art of Man
E-bok, 2010
233 kr
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What Are The Ancients Trying To Tell Us? "Why would the Cro-Magnon hunter-gatherers of Europe expend so much time and effort to penetrate into deep, dark, and dangerous caverns, where they might encounter cave bears and lions or get lost and die, aided only by the dim glow of animal fat–burning …
Entanglement
The Greatest Mystery in Physics
Inbunden, 2002
257 kr
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Could 'Beam me up, Scotty' soon become a reality?The lines between 'science' and 'science fiction' have become increasingly blurred. Now, quantum mechanics promises that some of humanity's wildest dreams may be realized. Serious scientists, working from Einstein's theories, have been investigating …
Pendulum
Leon Foucault and the Triumph of Science
Häftad, 2004
199 kr
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In 1853, before the upper crust of French society - including the emperor Napoleon III - a little known physicist named Leon Foucault staged a dramatic demonstration inside the Pantheon in Paris. He set in motion a seventy metre long pendulum that swung slowly across the interior of the large …
Descartes's Secret Notebook
A True Tale of Mathematics, Mysticism, and the Quest to Understand the Universe
Häftad, 2006
224 kr
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Finding Zero
Av Amir D Aczel
Häftad, 2016
165 kr
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The invention of numerals is perhaps the greatest abstraction the human mind has ever created. Virtually everything in our lives is digital, numerical, or quantified. The story of how and where we got these numerals has for thousands of years been shrouded in mystery. Finding Zero is an …
Pendulum
Leon Foucault and the Triumph of Science
E-bok, 2007
199 kr
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In 1851, struggling, self-taught physicist Léon Foucault performed a dramatic demonstration inside the Panthéon in Paris. By tracking a pendulum''s path as it swung repeatedly across the interior of the large ceremonial hall, Foucault offered the first definitive proof -- before an audience that …
How to Beat the I.R.S. at Its Own Game: Strategies to Avoid--And Fight--An Audit
Häftad, 1995
255 kr
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The Jesuit and the Skull: Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man
Häftad, 2008
339 kr
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My Search for Ramanujan
How I Learned to Count
Av Ken Ono, Amir D. Aczel
Inbunden, 2016
478 kr
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"The son of a prominent Japanese mathematician who came to the United States after World War II, Ken Ono was raised on a diet of high expectations and little praise. Rebelling against his pressure-cooker of a life, Ken determined to drop out of high school to follow his own path. To obtain his …
My Search for Ramanujan
How I Learned to Count
Av Amir D. Aczel, Ken Ono
E-bok, 2016
638 kr
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"The son of a prominent Japanese mathematician who came to the United States after World War II, Ken Ono was raised on a diet of high expectations and little praise. Rebelling against his pressure-cooker of a life, Ken determined to drop out of high school to follow his own path. To obtain his …
El ultimo teorema de Fermat
El secreto de un antiguo problema matemático
E-bok, 2024
38 kr
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Desde los anónimos babilonios y agrimensores egipcios, pasando por Pitágoras y sus seguidores, Arquímedes y Diofanto, hasta llegar al mundo árabe, el autor traza el camino que llevó a la solución del último teorema de Fermat, una ruta llena de intrigas y falsas atribuciones
El último teorema de Fermat
El secreto de un antiguo problema matemático
E-bok, 2017
44 kr
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Desde los anónimos babilonios y agrimensores egipcios, pasando por Pitágoras y sus seguidores, Arquímedes y Diofanto, hasta llegar al mundo árabe, el autor traza el camino que llevó a la solución del último teorema de Fermat, una ruta llena de intrigas y falsas atribuciones
