For everyone who breaks out in a sweat at the thought of thermodynamics or quantum mechanics, now there's a concise and comprehensive text that's the ideal remedial remedy--guaranteed to produce advanced results. Filled with features such as chapter summaries, a who's who list, and biographical and historical tidbits, plus illustrations, photos, ...
This text casts a disbelieving glance at the hoary, oft-told tales of physics, astronomy, mathematics, chemistry, biology and technology history. It picks out the inaccuracies, lies and legends of science history and uncovers the truth behind these received stories, often in surprising fashion.
Not since Fritjof Capras The Tao of Physics have physics and philosophy joined together in such a fascinating book.. When physicists and others construct models to explain the phenomena and laws of nature, do those models actually simulate whats really out there in the world, or do they only synthesize the way we think the world is? And how does ...
These iconoclastic and witty essays are about what happens when scientists jump on band-wagons. Tony Rothman applies creative skepticism to contemporary fashions in science, including the "standard model" Big Bang theory, geodesic domes, the concept of nuclear winter, and sociological applications of the second law of thermodynamics. "Rothman ...
Between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries Japan was totally isolated from the West by imperial decree. During that time, a unique brand of homegrown mathematics flourished, one that was completely uninfluenced by developments in Western mathematics. People from all walks of life - samurai, farmers, and merchants - inscribed a wide variety ...
This novel examines the Russian character, poised between the receding age of Brezhnev and the dawn of Gorbechev's Perestroika. Throughout, Rothman investigates the role of the censors which although seemingly disappearing, literally may return again overnight.
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