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30 produkter
Kurt Gödel : mot förnuftets gränser
Inbunden, 2023
306 kr
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Kurt Gödels ofullständighetssats har gäckat matematiker, filosofer och datavetare i snart hundra år. Men till skillnad från vännen Albert Einstein har Gödels liv länge stått utanför blickfånget. I berättelsen om den udda och plågade man som kallats den främste logikern sedan Aristoteles utgår den …
Nature of Horses
Häftad, 2009
147 kr
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What does it mean to be a horse? The definitive and bestselling book explaining the mysteries of the horse using insights of modern science.What makes a winning racehorse? How intelligent are horses? What are horses trying to tell us when they stamp their hooves and snort? Do horses talk to each …
The Nature of Horses
Av Stephen Budiansky, Stephen Budiansky
Häftad, 2012
269 kr
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Horses have a shared history with man going back millennia to their domestication around 4000 B.C. Yet only in very recent years have scientists begun to turn the tools of modem science on this remarkable animal that has been so wrapped up in human dreams and legends. Now modern scientific research …
Air Power: The Men, Machines, and Ideas That Revolutionized War, from Kitty Hawk to Iraq
Häftad, 2005
406 kr
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Journey to the Edge of Reason
The Life of Kurt Gödel
Inbunden, 2021
288 kr
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A remarkable account of Kurt Gödel, weaving together creative genius, mental illness, political corruption, and idealism in the face of the turmoil of war and upheaval.At age 24, a brilliant Austrian-born mathematician published a mathematical result that shook the world. Nearly a hundred years …
Journey to the Edge of Reason
The Life of Kurt Gödel
Häftad, 2023
329 kr
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A remarkable account of Kurt Gödel, weaving together creative genius, mental illness, political corruption, and idealism in the face of the turmoil of war and upheaval. At age 24, a brilliant Austrian-born mathematician published a mathematical result that shook the world. Nearly a hundred years …
Perilous Fight: America's Intrepid War with Britain on the High Seas, 1812-1815
Häftad, 2012
295 kr
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Perilous Fight
E-bok, 2011
173 kr
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In Perilous Fight, Stephen Budiansky tells the rousing story of the underdog coterie of American seamen and their visionary secretary of the navy, who combined bravery and strategic innovation to hold off the legendary Royal Navy. Budiansky vividly demonstrates that far from an indecisive and …
Blackett's War: The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare
Häftad, 2013
285 kr
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Blackett's War
The Men Who Defeated the Nazi U-Boats and Brought Science to the Art of Warfare
E-bok, 2013
142 kr
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The exciting history of a small group of British and American scientists who, during World War II, developed the new field of operational research to turn back the tide of German submarines—revolutionizing the way wars are waged and won. In March 1941, after a year of unbroken and devastating …
Code Warriors
NSA''s Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union
E-bok, 2016
142 kr
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A sweeping, in-depth history of NSA, whose famous “cult of silence” has left the agency shrouded in mystery for decades The National Security Agency was born out of the legendary codebreaking programs of World War II that cracked the famed Enigma machine and other German and Japanese codes, thereby …
Oliver Wendell Holmes
A Life in War, Law, and Ideas
Inbunden, 2019
306 kr
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Oliver Wendell Holmes twice escaped death as a young Union officer in the Civil War when musket balls missed his heart and spinal cord by a fraction of an inch at the Battles of Ball’s Bluff and Antietam. He lived ever after with unwavering moral courage, unremitting scorn for dogma, and an …
Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage
Häftad, 2006
356 kr
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Code Warriors: NSA's Codebreakers and the Secret Intelligence War Against the Soviet Union
Häftad, 2017
296 kr
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Air Power
The Men, Machines, and Ideas That Revolutionized War, from Kitty Hawk to Iraq
E-bok, 2005
82 kr
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No single human invention has transformed war more than the airplane—not even the atomic bomb. Even before the Wright Brothers’ first flight, predictions abounded of the devastating and terrible consequences this new invention would have as an engine of war. Soaring over the battlefield, the …
Bloody Shirt
Terror After the Civil War
E-bok, 2008
196 kr
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A gripping look at terrorist violence during the Reconstruction era Between 1867, when the defeated South was forced to establish new state governments that fully represented both black and white citizens, and 1877, when the last of these governments was overthrown, more than three thousand African …
Journey to the Edge of Reason
The Life of Kurt Gödel
Inbunden, 2021
4,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
289 kr
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Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel’s famous proof that every mathematical system must contain propositions that are true—yet never provable—continues to unsettle mathematics, philosophy, and computer science. Yet unlike Einstein, with whom he formed a warm and abiding …
Day in September
The Battle of Antietam and the World It Left Behind
Inbunden, 2024
321 kr
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The Battle of Antietam, which took place on September 17, 1862, remains the single bloodiest day in America’s history: more than 3,600 men died in twelve hours of savage fighting, and more than 17,000 were wounded. As a turning point in the Civil War, the narrow Union victory is well-known as the …
Journey to the Edge of Reason
The Life of Kurt Gödel
Häftad, 2022
232 kr
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Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel’s famous proof that every mathematical system must contain propositions that are true—yet never provable—continues to unsettle mathematics, philosophy, and computer science. Yet unlike Einstein, with whom he formed a warm and abiding …
Day in September
The Battle of Antietam and the World It Left Behind
Häftad, 2025
226 kr
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The Battle of Antietam, which took place on September 17, 1862, remains the single bloodiest day in America’s history: more than 3,600 men died in twelve hours of savage fighting, and more than 17,000 were wounded. As a turning point in the Civil War, the narrow Union victory is well-known as the …
Her Majesty's Spymaster
Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage
E-bok, 2006
164 kr
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Sir Francis Walsingham’s official title was principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I, but in fact this pious, tight-lipped Puritan was England’s first spymaster. A ruthless, fiercely loyal civil servant, Walsingham worked brilliantly behind the scenes to foil Elizabeth’s rival Mary Queen of Scots …
Nature of Horses
E-bok, 2015
39 kr
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What makes a winning racehorse? How intelligent are horses? What are horses trying to tell us when they stamp their hooves and snort? Do horses talk to each other? The horse, long a symbol of beauty and athletic prowess, has made and lost fortunes and transformed human history and culture, and yet …
Character of Cats
E-bok, 2015
45 kr
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Unlike every other domestic animal, the cat evolved as a solitary animal, not a group-dweller. A cat in a household is almost literally a fish out of water. That cats can nonetheless get along with people and (sometimes) other cats when forced to, is testimony to a remarkable adaptability. But it …
Truth About Dogs
The Ancestry, Social Conventions, Mental Habits and Moral Fibre of Canis familiaris
E-bok, 2016
45 kr
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Stephen Budiansky holds that virtually everything previously written about dogs is either wrong or misguided. Instead he maintains that to understand the true nature of dogs we need to stop interpreting their behaviour in the human terms of loyalty and betrayal. The truth is far more complex and …
Reise zu den Grenzen der Vernunft
Kurt Gödel und die schwerste Krise der Mathematik | Die Biografie eines der größten Denker des 20. Jahrhunderts
E-bok, 2023
272 kr
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»Der absolute Prinz der Dunkelheit der modernen Mathematik« David Foster Wallace über Kurt GödelMit seinem Unvollständigkeitssatz stürzte Kurt Gödel die Mathematik in ihre schwerste Krise: Er entdeckte, dass jedes sinnvolle logische System Sätze enthalten muss, die wahr, aber niemals beweisbar …
Kurt Gödel : mot förnuftets gränser
E-bok, 2023
139 kr
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Nästan hundra år senare fortsätter Kurt Gödels berömda sats att förbrylla matematiker, filosofer och datavetare. Till skillnad från Einstein, med vilken han utvecklade en varm och bestående vänskap, har Gödels liv länge stått utanför blickfånget. Kurt Gödel – Mot förnuftets gränser är den första …
Oliver Wendell Holmes
A Life in War, Law, and Ideas
Häftad, 2020
233 kr
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Oliver Wendell Holmes escaped death twice as a young Union officer in the Civil War. He lived ever after with unwavering moral courage, unremitting scorn for dogma, and an insatiable intellectual curiosity. During his nearly three decades on the Supreme Court, he wrote a series of opinions that …
