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Imaginary Tale
The Story of √-1
Häftad, 2016
202 kr
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Today complex numbers have such widespread practical use--from electrical engineering to aeronautics--that few people would expect the story behind their derivation to be filled with adventure and enigma. In An Imaginary Tale, Paul Nahin tells the 2000-year-old history of one of mathematics' most …
Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula
Cures Many Mathematical Ills
Häftad, 2017
219 kr
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In the mid-eighteenth century, Swiss-born mathematician Leonhard Euler developed a formula so innovative and complex that it continues to inspire research, discussion, and even the occasional limerick. Dr. Euler's Fabulous Formula shares the fascinating story of this groundbreaking formula--long …
The New Science of Strong Materials
Or Why You Don't Fall through the Floor
Häftad, 2018
235 kr
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Why Stock Markets Crash
Critical Events in Complex Financial Systems
Häftad, 2017
219 kr
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The scientific study of complex systems has transformed a wide range of disciplines in recent years, enabling researchers in both the natural and social sciences to model and predict phenomena as diverse as earthquakes, global warming, demographic patterns, financial crises, and the failure of …
QED
The Strange Theory of Light and Matter
Häftad, 2014
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177 kr
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Future of the Brain
Essays by the World's Leading Neuroscientists
Av Gary Marcus, Jeremy Freeman
Häftad, 2024
177 kr
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The world's top experts take readers to the very frontiers of brain scienceIncludes a chapter by 2014 Nobel laureates May-Britt Moser and Edvard MoserAn unprecedented look at the quest to unravel the mysteries of the human brain, The Future of the Brain takes readers to the absolute frontiers of …
Oxygen
A Four Billion Year History
Häftad, 2025
160 kr
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The remarkable scientific story of how Earth became an oxygenated planetThe air we breathe is twenty-one percent oxygen, an amount higher than on any other known world. While we may take our air for granted, Earth was not always an oxygenated planet. How did it come to be this way? Donald Canfield …
Symmetry
Av Hermann Weyl
Häftad, 2016
178 kr
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Symmetry is a classic study of symmetry in mathematics, the sciences, nature, and art from one of the twentieth century's greatest mathematicians. Hermann Weyl explores the concept of symmetry beginning with the idea that it represents a harmony of proportions, and gradually departs to examine its …
How to Solve it – A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
Av Georg Polya
Häftad, 2014
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242 kr
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A perennial bestseller by eminent mathematician G. Polya, How to Solve It will show anyone in any field how to think straight. In lucid and appealing prose, Polya reveals how the mathematical method of demonstrating a proof or finding an unknown can be of help in attacking any problem that can be …
Euler's Gem
The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology
Häftad, 2019
194 kr
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How a simple equation reshaped mathematicsLeonhard Euler’s polyhedron formula describes the structure of many objects—from soccer balls and gemstones to Buckminster Fuller’s buildings and giant all-carbon molecules. Yet Euler’s theorem is so simple it can be explained to a child. From ancient Greek …
Fearful Symmetry
The Search for Beauty in Modern Physics
Av Anthony Zee
Häftad, 2016
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257 kr
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The concept of symmetry has widespread manifestations and many diverse applications--from architecture to mathematics to science. Yet, as twentieth-century physics has revealed, symmetry has a special, central role in nature, one that is occasionally and enigmatically violated. Fearful Symmetry …
Fashion, Faith, and Fantasy in the New Physics of the Universe
Häftad, 2024
188 kr
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Nobel Prize–winning physicist Roger Penrose questions some of the most fashionable ideas in physics today, including string theoryWhat can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, theoretical physicists are …
Eye and Brain
The Psychology of Seeing - Fifth Edition
Häftad, 2015
172 kr
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Since the publication of the first edition in 1966, Eye and Brain has established itself worldwide as an essential introduction to the basic phenomena of visual perception. Richard Gregory offers clear explanations of how we see brightness, movement, color, and objects, and he explores the …
Random Walks in Biology
Häftad, 2025
205 kr
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A landmark account of the dynamics of living systems and the methods for studying themRandom Walks in Biology provides a lucid, straightforward introduction to the concepts and techniques of statistical physics that students of biology, biochemistry, and biophysics must know. Howard Berg offers an …
How to Clone a Mammoth
The Science of De-Extinction
Av Beth Shapiro
Häftad, 2020
143 kr
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An insider's view on bringing extinct species back to lifeCould extinct species, like mammoths and passenger pigeons, be brought back to life? In How to Clone a Mammoth, Beth Shapiro, an evolutionary biologist and pioneer in ancient DNA research, addresses this intriguing question by walking …
Neuronal Man
The Biology of Mind
Häftad, 1997
515 kr
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Over the past thirty-five years, there has been an explosive increase in scientists' ability to explain the structure and functioning of the human brain. While psychology has advanced our understanding of human behavior, various other sciences, such as anatomy, physiology, and biology, have …
Ancient Wine
The Search for the Origins of Viniculture
Häftad, 2019
165 kr
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A richly illustrated account of the story of ancient vinicultureThe history of civilization is, in many ways, the history of wine. This book is the first comprehensive account of the earliest stages of the history and prehistory of viniculture, which extends back into the Neolithic period and …
Evolution of Culture in Animals
Häftad, 1983
324 kr
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Animals do have culture, maintains this delightfully illustrated and provocative book, which cites a number of fascinating instances of animal communication and learning. John Bonner traces the origins of culture back to the early biological evolution of animals and provides examples of five …
Garden in the Machine
The Emerging Science of Artificial Life
Häftad, 1996
576 kr
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What is life? Is it just the biologically familiar--birds, trees, snails, people--or is it an infinitely complex set of patterns that a computer could simulate? What role does intelligence play in separating the organic from the inorganic, the living from the inert? Does life evolve along a …
Hands
Av John Napier, Russell H. Tuttle
Häftad, 1993
316 kr
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Intended for all readers--including magicians, detectives, musicians, orthopedic surgeons, and anthropologists--this book offers a thorough account of that most intriguing and most human of appendages: the hand. In this illustrated work, John Napier explores a wide range of absorbing subjects such …
Life on a Young Planet
The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth - Updated Edition
Häftad, 2015
178 kr
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Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites--such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. But in the full history of life, ancient animals, even the trilobites, form only the half-billion-year tip of a nearly four-billion-year iceberg. Andrew Knoll explores the deep …
Mathematician's Mind
The Psychology of Invention in the Mathematical Field
Häftad, 1996
263 kr
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Fifty years ago when Jacques Hadamard set out to explore how mathematicians invent new ideas, he considered the creative experiences of some of the greatest thinkers of his generation, such as George Polya, Claude Levi-Strauss, and Albert Einstein. It appeared that inspiration could strike anytime, …
Natural History of Shells
Häftad, 1995
307 kr
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Geerat Vermeij wrote this "celebration of shells" to share his enthusiasm for those supremely elegant creations and what they can teach us about nature. Most popular books on shells emphasize the identification of species, but Vermeij uses shells as a way to explore major ideas in biology. How are …
Celestial Encounters
The Origins of Chaos and Stability
Av Florin Diacu, Philip J. Holmes
Häftad, 1999
619 kr
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Celestial Encounters is for anyone who has ever wondered about the foundations of chaos. In 1888, the 34-year-old Henri Poincare submitted a paper that was to change the course of science, but not before it underwent significant changes itself. "The Three-Body Problem and the Equations of Dynamics" …
Chance and Chaos
Av David Ruelle
Häftad, 1993
365 kr
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How do scientists look at chance, or randomness, and chaos in physical systems? This book answers this question for a general audience.
Enjoyment of Math
Av Hans Rademacher, Otto Toeplitz
Häftad, 1966
619 kr
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What is so special about the number 30? How many colors are needed to color a map? Do the prime numbers go on forever? Are there more whole numbers than even numbers? These and other mathematical puzzles are explored in this delightful book by two eminent mathematicians. Requiring no more …
Encounters with Einstein
And Other Essays on People, Places, and Particles
Häftad, 1989
281 kr
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In nine essays and lectures composed in the last years of his life, Werner Heisenberg offers a bold appraisal of the scientific method in the twentieth century--and relates its philosophical impact on contemporary society and science to the particulars of molecular biology, astrophysics, and …
Causes of Evolution
Häftad, 1990
358 kr
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J.B.S. Haldane (1892-1964), one of the founders of the science of population genetics, was also one of the greatest practitioners of the art of explaining science to the layperson. Haldane was a superb story-teller, as his essays and his children's books attest. In The Causes of Evolution he not …
Polyominoes
Puzzles, Patterns, Problems, and Packings - Revised and Expanded Second Edition
Häftad, 1996
263 kr
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Inspiring popular video games like Tetris while contributing to the study of combinatorial geometry and tiling theory, polyominoes have continued to spark interest ever since their inventor, Solomon Golomb, introduced them to puzzle enthusiasts several decades ago. In this fully revised and …
Aim and Structure of Physical Theory
Häftad, 1991
324 kr
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This classic work in the philosophy of physical science is an incisive and readable account of the scientific method. Pierre Duhem was one of the great figures in French science, a devoted teacher, and a distinguished scholar of the history and philosophy of science. This book represents his most …
