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By: Werner Heisenberg
ISBN: 9780691024332
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 1990
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Are the problems we define and pursue freely chosen according to our conscious interests Or does the historical process itself determine which phenomena merit examination at any one time This title discusses these issues in the far-ranging philosophical terms, while illustrating them with specific examples.
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By: David S. Richeson
ISBN: 9780691191379
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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"First printed in 2008. New Princeton Science Library edition, with a new preface by the author, 2019"--title page verso.
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By: Anthony Zee
ISBN: 9780691173269
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Discusses symmetry and asymmetry in contemporary physics and tells the story of how contemporary theoretical physicists are following Einstein in their search for the beauty and simplicity of nature.
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By: Beth Shapiro
ISBN: 9780691209005
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: George Polya
ISBN: 9780691164076
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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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 "reasoned" out--from building a bridge to winning a
(Paperback, Updated Edition)
By: Andrew H. Knoll
ISBN: 9780691165530
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jun 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Knoll explores the deep history of life from its origins on a young planet to the incredible Cambrian explosion, with the very latest discoveries in paleontology integrated with emerging insights from molecular biology and earth system science. 100 illustrations.
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By: Paul G. Falkowski
ISBN: 9780691247687
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2023
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: John MacCormick
ISBN: 9780691209067
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2020
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback, Revised and Expanded Second Edition)
By: Solomon W. Golomb
ISBN: 9780691024448
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jun 1996
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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This work looks at polyominoes, invented by Solomon Golomb, which have contributed to the study of combinatorial geometry and tiling theory. This work takes readers on a mathematical journey through the world of the polyomino.
(Paperback, 2nd edition)
By: Michael Nielsen
ISBN: 9780691202846
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2020
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Henry Petroski
ISBN: 9780691180991
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2018
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Walter Alvarez
ISBN: 9780691169668
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Sixty-five million years ago, a comet or asteroid larger than Mount Everest slammed into the Earth, inducing an explosion equivalent to the detonation of a hundred million hydrogen bombs. Vaporized detritus blasted through the atmosphere upon impact, falling back to Earth around the globe. Disastrous environmental consequences ensued: a giant tsuna
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By: William Dunham
ISBN: 9780691182858
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2019
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: David Archer
ISBN: 9780691169064
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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The human impact on Earth's climate is often treated as a hundred-year issue lasting as far into the future as 2100, the year in which most climate projections cease. In The Long Thaw, David Archer, one of the world's leading climatologists, reveals the hard truth that these changes in climate will be "locked in," essentially forever. If you think
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By: Mark Levi
ISBN: 9780691242057
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2023
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Stephen Hawking
ISBN: 9780691168449
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Einstein said that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. But was he right Can the quantum theory of fields and Einstein's general theory of relativity, the two most accurate and successful theories in all of physics, be united into a single quantum theory of gravity Can quantum and cosmos ever be combine
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By: Sam Treiman
ISBN: 9780691254364
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2024
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Eli Maor
ISBN: 9780691196886
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jan 2020
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Eli Maor
ISBN: 9780691158204
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2013
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Trigonometry has always been an underappreciated branch of mathematics. It has a reputation as a dry and difficult subject, a glorified form of geometry complicated by tedious computation. In this book, Eli Maor draws on his remarkable talents as a guide to the world of numbers to dispel that view. Rejecting the usual arid descriptions of sine, cos
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By: Paul J. Nahin
ISBN: 9780691218762
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jul 2021
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback, Revised edition)
By: Didier Sornette
ISBN: 9780691175959
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback, Fifth Edition)
By: Richard L. Gregory
ISBN: 9780691165165
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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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 phenomena of visual illusions to establish principles about
(Paperback, Revised edition)
By: Spencer Wells
ISBN: 9780691176017
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Mar 2017
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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(Paperback, 5th Revised edition)
By: Albert Einstein
ISBN: 9780691164083
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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