Do Not Erase: Mathematicians and Their Chalkboards by Jessica Wynne
$54.99 AUD
Category: Popular Science
A photographic exploration of mathematicians' chalkboards "A mathematician, like a painter or poet, is a maker of patterns," wrote the British mathematician G. H. Hardy. In Do Not Erase, photographer Jessica Wynne presents remarkable examples of this idea through images of mathematicians' chalkboards. ...Show more
Longitude by Dava Sobel
$19.98 AUD
Category: Popular Science
The dramatic human story of an epic scientific quest and of one man's forty-year obsession to find a solution to the thorniest scientific dilemma of the day--"the longitude problem." Anyone alive in the eighteenth century would have known that "the longitude problem" was the thorniest scientific dilemma ...Show more
Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh
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Category: Popular Science
'I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.' It was with these words, written in the 1630s, that Pierre de Fermat intrigued and infuriated the mathematics community. For over 350 years, proving Fermat's Last Theorem was the most notorious unso ...Show more
Introducing Quantum Theory: A Graphic Guide by J.P. McEvoy, Oscar Zarate
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Introducing... Ser.
Quantum theory confronts us with bizarre paradoxes which contradict the logic of classical physics. At the subatomic level, one particle seems to know what the others are doing, and according to Heisenberg's "uncertainty principle", there is a limit on how accurately nature can be observed. And yet the ...Show more
Relativity Demystified by David McMahon
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Demystified
Providing a way to learn the essentials and formulas of Einstein's theories, this book includes problems at the end of the chapters. It helps readers learn the formulas and principles of special and general relativity; use mathematical tools for solving relativity problems; and receive explanations for ...Show more
Knocking on Heaven's Door: How Physics and Scientific Thinking Illuminate Our Universe by Lisa Randall
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Category: Popular Science
"Sunday Times Science Book of the Year" - We are poised on the edge of discovery in particle physics (the study of the smallest objects we know of) and cosmology (the study of the largest), and when these breakthroughs come, they will revolutionise what we think we know about the universe, and the moder ...Show more
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer
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Category: Popular Science | Series: Memory Improvement
"Joshua Foer invents a new genre of nonfiction. This is a work of science journalism wrapped around an adventure story, a bildungsroman fused to a vivid investigation of human memory."--Jonah Lehrer, author of How We Decide and Proust Was a Neuroscientist On average, people squander forty days annuall ...Show more