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2018 Reprint of 1961 Second Edition. Full facsimile of the original edition. Not reproduced with Optical Recognition software. As The New York Times wrote after his death, Henry B. Fried was "widely acknowledged as the dean of American watchmak

The vitality and accessibility of Fritjof Capra's ideas have made him perhaps the most eloquent spokesperson of the latest findings emerging at the frontiers of scientific, social, and philosophical thought. In his international bestsellers "The Tao ..

This book contains the World's Largest Prime Number, and um-well…only that This colossal number's 24,862,048 digits span over 400 pages, making this the perfect prank gift or fun coffee table addition for math lovers and haters alike Imagine the look

This study guide for the Chemistry Olympiad contains summarized concepts and examples in all areas of chemistry. The chapters are arranged in a logical manner and establishes connections between concepts. Undergraduate chemistry concepts are explained clea

Kniha Theory and Reality autora Peter Godfrey-Smith vydaná v nakladatelství The University of Chicago Press v roce 2021, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Brožovaná, počet stran: 368, ISBN-13: 9780226618654, zařazení do kategorie: Filozofie vědy.

Drawing on primary source material and interviews with statisticians and other scientists, „The Theory That Would Not Die“ is the riveting account of how a seemingly simple theorem ignited one of the greatest scientific controversies of all time. Bay ..

Enrico Fermi: Father of the Atomic AgeEnrico Fermi (1901–1954) received the 1938 Nobel Prize in Physics "for his demonstrations of new radioactive elements produced by neutron irradiation, and for his related discovery of nuclear reactions bro ..

Have you ever tried to learn more about some incredible thing, only to be frustrated by incomprehensible jargon? Randall Munroe is here to help. In Thing Explainer, he uses line drawings and only the thousand (or, rather, „ten hundred“) most common

From the No. 1 bestselling author of What If? – the man who created xkcd and explained the laws of science with cartoons – comes a series of brilliantly simple diagrams (‚blueprints‘ if you want to be complicated about it) that show how important things work: from the nuclear bomb to the biro.

This is the complete guide to exploring the fascinating world of maths you were never told about at school. Stand-up comedian and mathematician Matt Parker uses bizarre Klein Bottles, unimaginably small pizza slices, knots no one can untie and comput ..

Kniha This is Technology Ethics: An Introduction vydaná v nakladatelství John Wiley & Sons Inc v roce 2023, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Brožovaná, počet stran: 288, ISBN-13: 9781119755579, zařazení do kategorie: Vliv vědy a techniky na společnost.

Edge.org presents brilliant, accessible, cutting-edge ideas to improve our decision-making skills and improve our cognitive toolkits, with contributions by Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Richard Dawkins, Brian Eno, Steven Pinker, and more. Featuring a foreword by

„It would be hard to imagine a better guide to this difficult subject.“–Scientific AmericanIn Three Roads to Quantum Gravity, Lee Smolin provides an accessible overview of the attempts to build a final "theory of everythi

An accessible and compelling story of a scientist's discovery of plant communication and how it influenced her research and changed her life. In this „phytobiography“–a collection of stories written in partnership with a plant–research

This book is for users of the TI-84 Plus CE graphing calculator family. It focuses on the most relevant functions for high school and college. It starts off with the basics of the calculator like accessing all the different menus, editing equati

The fascinating, definitive chronicle of the timber rattlesnake and its fate in the northeast

In this captivating account, a renowned paleontologist relates how his boyhood enthusiasm for dinosaurs became a lifelong commitment to vanguard science. 25 illustrations. 5 maps.

Kniha Timelines of Science autora DK vydaná v nakladatelství Dorling Kindersley Ltd v roce 2023, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Pevná, počet stran: 320, ISBN-13: 9780241600979, zařazení do kategorie: Dějiny vědy.

Kniha TO INFINITY & BEYOND autora TYSON NEIL DEGRASSE vydaná v nakladatelství NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC v roce 2023, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Pevná, ISBN-13: 9781426223303, zařazení do kategorie: Kosmologie a vesmír.

In this entertaining and challenging collection of logic puzzles, Raymond Smullyan – author of Forever Undecided – continues to delight and astonish us with his gift for making available, in the thoroughly pleasurable form of puzzles, some of the mos ..

Written by an experienced and well-respected physician and professor, this new volume combines the entire previous four books, Ultrasonic Topographical and Pathotopographical Anatomy, and its three sequels, also available from Wiley-Scrivener, pr

For a senior undergraduate or first year graduate-level course in Introduction to Topology. Appropriate for a one-semester course on both general and algebraic topology or separate courses treating each topic separately.

First developed during WW2, the Trachtenberg speed system makes possible high-speed arithmetical calcula tions with a remarkable degree of accuracy. The system has e ven been known to beat computer calculations – in some insta nces – in terms of speed '

Kniha Transformer autora NICK LANE vydaná v nakladatelství Profile Books v roce 2023, jazyk: Angličtina, vazba: Brožovaná, počet stran: 400, ISBN-13: 9781788160551, zařazení do kategorie: Buněčná biologie (cytologie).