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By: Piergiorgio Odifreddi
ISBN: 9780691128054
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2007
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Concentrates on thirty highlights of pure and applied mathematics. This book opens by discussing the four main philosophical foundations of mathematics of the nineteenth century and ends by describing the four important open mathematical problems of the twenty-first century.
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By: Calvin Clawson
ISBN: 9780738208350
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2003
Publisher: INGRAM PUBLISHER SERVICES US
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A fascinating look at how mathematics has influenced human civilization and evolution throughout history.
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By: John M. Gottman
ISBN: 9780262572309
Readership/Audience: Professional and Scholarly
Publication Date: Jan 2005
Publisher: MIT Press Ltd
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A guide to the mathematical modeling of marriage.
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By: Gui-Qiang Chen
ISBN: 9780691160542
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2018
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Glen Van Brummelen
ISBN: 9780691129730
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Apr 2009
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Presents the history in English of the origins and early development of trigonometry. This book identifies the earliest known trigonometric precursors in ancient Egypt, Babylon, and Greece, and examines the revolutionary discoveries of Hipparchus. It traces trigonometry's development into a full-fledged mathematical discipline in India and Islam.
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By: Gene Cohen
ISBN: 9780465012046
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Dec 2006
Publisher: Basic Books
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A renowned psychiatrist and gerontologist draws from more than thirty years of research to show that surprising positive changes in our brains have the powerful potential to enhance, not diminish, our lives after fifty
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By: Ken Alder
ISBN: 9780349115078
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Aug 2004
Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group
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The revolutionary adventures of two scientists who inaugurated the metric system.
Winner of the 2003 Dingle Prize for the best book on the history of science.
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By: John D. Currey
ISBN: 9780691612171
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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This book relates the mechanical and structural properties of bone to its function in man and other vertebrates. John Currey, one of the pioneers of modern bone research, reviews existing information in the field and particularly emphasizes the correlation of the structure of bone with its various uses. Originally published in 1984. The Princeton
(Hardback)
By: John D. Currey
ISBN: 9780691640105
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Peter J. Bowler
ISBN: 9781474241731
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Nov 2015
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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By: Eliezer Geisler
ISBN: 9781567202137
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Aug 2000
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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Dr. Geisler's far-reaching, unique book provides an encyclopedic compilation of the key metrics to measure and evaluate the impact of science and technology on academia, industry, and government.
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By: Keith Devlin
ISBN: 9780465017300
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Oct 2003
Publisher: Basic Books
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The definitive account of the Everests of mathematics--the seven unsolved problems that define the state of the art in contemporary math
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By: Dr. Jay Lombard
ISBN: 9780553418699
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Sep 2018
Publisher: Potter/Ten Speed/Harmony/Rodale
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By: Timothy Ferris
ISBN: 9780553371338
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Mar 1993
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc
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The bestselling author of Coming of Age in the Milky Way brilliantly synthesizes inner and outer space, brain-mind science and SETI in this penetrating examination of the universe.
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By: Beck Anamin
ISBN: 9781543950663
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Oct 2019
Publisher: BookBaby
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By: Fiammetta Rocco
ISBN: 9780006532354
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jan 2005
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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A rich and wonderful history of quinine the cure for malaria.
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By: Kenneth A. Brakke
ISBN: 9780691611518
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: May 2015
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Kenneth Brakke studies in general dimensions a dynamic system of surfaces of no inertial mass driven by the force of surface tension and opposed by a frictional force proportional to velocity. He formulates his study in terms of varifold surfaces and uses the methods of geometric measure theory to develop a mathematical description of the motion of
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By: Kenneth A. Brakke
ISBN: 9780691639512
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Bruce Stephenson
ISBN: 9780691605968
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Sep 2014
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Valued today for its development of the third law of planetary motion, Harmonice mundi (1619) was intended by Kepler to expand on ancient efforts to discern a Creator's plan for the planetary system--an arrangement thought to be based on harmonic relationships. Challenging critics who characterize Kepler's theories of harmonic astronomy as "mystica
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By: Bruce Stephenson
ISBN: 9780691634821
Readership/Audience: Tertiary Education
Publication Date: Jun 2016
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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By: Carol Shively Mizes
ISBN: 9781483593852
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2017
Publisher: BookBaby
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By: Sherwin B. Nuland
ISBN: 9780684854878
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: May 2001
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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By: Frank Ryan
ISBN: 9780007549085
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Apr 2016
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
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How could a relatively simple chemical code give rise to the complexity of a human being How could our human genome have evolved And how does it actually work
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By: David L. Ulin
ISBN: 9780143035251
Readership/Audience: General
Publication Date: Jul 2005
Publisher: Penguin Putnam Inc
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Explores how an unlikely collection of scientists, psychics, and doomsday prophets have made accurate earthquake predictions based on a wide range of empirical and otherworldly signs, observing how the practice of earthquake prediction reflects a human need for control. Reprint.
