Природо-математически науки

Absolutely Small Absolutely Small

Michael D. Fayer, Ph.D.

Издател: AMACOM

Physics is a complex, even daunting topic, but it is also deeply satisfying—even thrilling. And liberated from its mathematical underpinnings, physics suddenly becomes accessible to anyone with the curiosity and imagination to explore its beauty. Science without math? It’s not that unusual. For example, we can understand the concept of gravity

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Complexity: A Guided Tour Complexity: A Guided Tour

Melanie Mitchell

Издател: Oxford University Press

What the heck is "complexity" anyway? This is one of the questions Mitchell tries to answer in this wide ranging introduction to emergent phenomenon. In Complexity, A Guided Tour Mitchell embarks on a highly readable and wide ranging overview of the world of complexity. From the beginning, one might reasonably ask, "What does it mean to speak of

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Galileo's Finger Galileo's Finger

Peter Atkins

Издател: Oxford University Press

Why Galileo''s finger? Galileo, one of whose fingers is preserved in a vessel displayed in Florence, provided much of the impetus for modern science, pointing the way out of medieval ignorance. In this brilliant account of the central ideas of contemporary science, Peter Atkins celebrates the effectiveness of Galileo''s symbolic finger for

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Mathematics for Economics Mathematics for Economics

Michael Hoy , John Livernois, Chris McKenna , Ray Rees, Thanasis Stengos

Издател: The MIT Press

This text offers a comprehensive presentation of the mathematics required to tackle problems in economic analyses. To give a better understanding of the mathematical concepts, the text follows the logic of the development of mathematics rather than that of an economics course. The only prerequisite is high school algebra, but the book goes on to

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Networks: An Introduction Networks: An Introduction

M. E. J. Newman

Издател: Oxford University Press

The study of networks, including computer networks, social networks, and biological networks, has attracted an enormous amount of interest in the last few years. The rise of the Internet and the wide availability of inexpensive computers have made it possible to gather and analyze network data on an unprecedented scale, and the development of new

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Quantum Quantum

Manjit Kumar

Издател: Icon Books

For most people, quantum theory is a byword for mysterious, impenetrable science. And yet for many years it was equally baffling for scientists themselves. Manjit Kumar gives a dramatic and superbly-written history of this fundamental scientific revolution, and the divisive debate at its heart. For 60 years most physicists believed that quantum

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The Beginning of Infinity The Beginning of Infinity

David Deutsch

Издател: Allen Lane

The Beginning of Infinity is a bold and all-embracing intellectual exploration. David Deutsch, the critically acclaimed author of The Fabric of Reality, explores the big issues that inform our understanding of how the physical world works. The Fabric of Reality described the four deepest strands of our current knowledge — evolution, quantum

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The Clockwork Universe The Clockwork Universe

Edward Dolnick

Издател: HarperCollins Publishers

"The Clockwork Universe" is the story of a band of men who lived in a world of dirt and disease but pictured a universe that ran like a perfect machine. A meld of history and science, this book is a group portrait of some of the greatest minds who ever lived as they wrestled with nature’s most sweeping mysteries. The answers they uncovered still

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The Grammar of Science The Grammar of Science

Karl Pearson

Издател: Adamant Media Corporation

The Grammar of Science is a book by Karl Pearson first published in hardback in 1892. In 1900, the second edition, published by Adam & Charles Black, appeared. The third, revised, edition was also published by Adam & Charles Black in 1911. It was recommended by Einstein to his friends of the Olympia Academy. Several themes were covered in this

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The Great Equations The Great Equations

Robert P. Crease

Издател: W. W. Norton & Company

The Great Equations tells the stories of how these equations were discovered, revealing the personal struggles of their ingenious originators. From "1 + 1 = 2" to Heisenberg's uncertainty principle, Crease locates these equations in the panoramic sweep of Western history, showing how they are as integral to their time and place of creation as are

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