Great Discoveries – serie
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12 produkter
Incompleteness
The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel
Av Rebecca Newberger Goldstein
Häftad, 2006
306 kr
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Probing the life and work of Kurt Gödel, Incompleteness indelibly portrays the tortured genius whose vision rocked the stability of mathematical reasoning—and brought him to the edge of madness.
Obsessive Genius
The Inner World of Marie Curie
Häftad, 2005
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
309 kr
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Through family interviews, diaries, letters, and workbooks that had been sealed for over sixty years, Barbara Goldsmith reveals the Marie Curie behind the myth—an all-too-human woman struggling to balance a spectacular scientific career, a demanding family, the prejudice of society, and her own …
Quantum Man
Richard Feynman's Life in Science
Häftad, 2012
4,7 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (3)
356 kr
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Perhaps the greatest physicist of the second half of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman changed the way we think about quantum mechanics, the most perplexing of all physical theories. Here Lawrence M. Krauss, himself a theoretical physicist and a best-selling author, offers a unique scientific …
Doctors' Plague
Germs, Childbed Fever, and the Strange Story of Ignac Semmelweis
Häftad, 2004
163 kr
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Surgeon, scholar, best-selling author, Sherwin B. Nuland tells the strange story of Ignác Semmelweis with urgency and the insight gained from his own studies and clinical experience. Ignác Semmelweis is remembered for the now-commonplace notion that doctors must wash their hands before examining …
Einstein's Cosmos
How Albert Einstein's Vision Transformed Our Understanding of Space and Time
Av Michio Kaku
Häftad, 2005
244 kr
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There's no better short book that explains just what Einstein did than Einstein's Cosmos. Keying Einstein's crucial discoveries to the simple mental images that inspired them, Michio Kaku finds a revealing new way to discuss his ideas, and delivers an appealing and always accessible introduction to …
Lavoisier in the Year One
The Birth of a New Science in an Age of Revolution
Häftad, 2006
144 kr
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Antoine Lavoisier reinvented chemistry, overthrowing the long-established principles of alchemy and inventing an entirely new terminology, one still in use by chemists. Madison Smartt Bell’s enthralling narrative reads like a race to the finish line, as the very circumstances that enabled Lavoisier …
Man Who Knew Too Much
Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer
Häftad, 2006
169 kr
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To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary computer. Then, attempting to break a Nazi code during World War II, he successfully designed and built one, thus ensuring the Allied victory. Turing became a champion of artificial intelligence, but his …
Reluctant Mr. Darwin
An Intimate Portrait of Charles Darwin and the Making of His Theory of Evolution
Häftad, 2007
158 kr
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Twenty-one years passed between Charles Darwin's epiphany that "natural selection" formed the basis of evolution and the scientist's publication of On the Origin of Species. Why did Darwin delay, and what happened during the course of those two decades? The human drama and scientific basis of these …
Atom
Av Stewart Ross
Häftad, 2018
101 kr
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Ideal support for science at primary level. From falling apples to spacetime, this book's careful, step-by-step narrative explains what gravity is, how we discovered it, and the way this discovery has altered our understanding of the universe. The clear text is supported by lively illustrations.
Miss Leavitt's Stars
The Untold Story of the Woman Who Discovered How to Measure the Universe
Häftad, 2006
123 kr
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George Johnson brings to life Henrietta Swan Leavitt, who found the key to the vastness of the universe—in the form of a “yardstick” suitable for measuring it. Unknown in our day, Leavitt was no more recognized in her own: despite her enormous achievement, she was employed by the Harvard …
Uncentering the Earth
Copernicus and The Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
Häftad, 2007
146 kr
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In 1543, the Polish astronomer Nicolaus Copernicus lay on his deathbed, reportedly holding his just-published masterpiece, The Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres, in his hands. Placing the sun at the center of the universe, Copernicus launched modern science, leading to a completely new …
