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In a Flight of Starlings
The Wonder of Complex Systems
- Penguin, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 144 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80206-088-1
EAN 9781802060881
From the 2021 Nobel Prize winner in Physics, a remarkable journey into the practice of groundbreaking science 'Giorgio Parisi is renowned for his scientific creativity, originality, and power. In this exhilarating little book, he shows his human side, too. By its end, readers will feel they've made a charming, witty new friend' Frank WilczekThe world ...
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How to Make an Apple Pie from Scratch
In Search of the Recipe for Our Universe
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe' - Carl SaganInspired by Sagan's famous line, How To Make An Apple Pie From Scratch sets out on a journey to unearth everything we know about our universe: how it started, how we found out, and what we still ...
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- Michael O'Mara Books Ltd, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78929-681-5
EAN 9781789296815
Artificial intelligence is headline news with the launch of the latest ChatGPT and Google Bard. But when did we start making computers mimic the human mind? And what is the reality of the capabilities of AI now, and in the future? AI has always stirred emotions, and caused great excitement as well as great concern. ...
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- Penguin, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 150 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80206-214-4
EAN 9781802062144
Let us journey, with beloved physicist Carlo Rovelli, into the heart of a black hole. We slip beyond its boundary, the horizon, and we tumble - on and on - down this crack in the universe. As we plunge, we see geometry fold, see time and space pull and stretch. The remains of a star, ...
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Love Triangle
The Life-changing Magic of Trigonometry
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-0-241-50570-0
EAN 9780241505700
Why can no two people ever see the same rainbow? What happens when you pull a pop song apart into pure sine waves and play it back on a piano? Why does the wake behind a duck always form an angle of exactly 39 degrees? And what did mathematicians have to do with the great ...
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The Singularity Is Nearer
When We Merge With IA
- Penguin USA, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 448 páginas
PVP: 20,75 €
ISBN 978-0-593-48941-3
EAN 9780593489413
The noted inventor and futurist's successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explores how technology will refashion the human race in the decades to comeSince it was first published in 2005, Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity Is Near and its vision of the future have been influential in spawning a worldwide movement with millions ...
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Challenger
A True Story of Heroism and Disaster on the Edge of Space
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 28,00 €
ISBN 978-0-241-54370-2
EAN 9780241543702
The definitive, dramatic, minute-by-minute story of the Challenger space shuttle disaster based on fascinating in-depth reporting and new archival research - this is riveting history that reads like a thriller.On the morning of 28 January 1986, just seventy-three seconds into flight, the space shuttle Challenger broke apart over the Atlantic Ocean, killing all seven people ...
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Quanta and Fields
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe
- Penguin USA, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 304 páginas
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-0-593-18660-2
EAN 9780593186602
Sean Carroll is creating a profoundly new approach to sharing physics with a broad audience, one that goes beyond analogies to show how physicists really think. He cuts to the bare mathematical essence of our most profound theories, explaining every step in a uniquely accessible way. Quantum field theory is how modern physics describes nature ...
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Brave new words
How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)
- Viking, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 29,75 €
ISBN 978-0-241-68096-4
EAN 9780241680964
Whether we like it or not, the AI revolution is coming to education. In Brave New Words, Salman Khan, the visionary behind Khan Academy, explores how artificial intelligence and GPT technology will transform learning, offering a roadmap for teachers, parents, and students to navigate this exciting (and sometimes intimidating) new world. A pioneer in the ...
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Hampson, Roger; Shadbolt, Nigel
As If Human
Ethics and Artificial Intelligence
- Yale University Press, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 28,00 €
ISBN 978-0-300-26829-4
EAN 9780300268294
A new approach to the challenges surrounding artificial intelligence that argues for assessing AI actions as if they came from a human being Intelligent machines present us every day with urgent ethical challenges. Is the facial recognition software used by an agency fair? When algorithms determine questions of justice, finance, health, and defense, are the ...
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Going Mainstream
Why extreme ideas are spreading, and what we can do about it
- Bonnier Books Ltd, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-80418-378-6
EAN 9781804183786
Conspiracy theorists. Neo-Nazis. Once, these groups all belonged on the fringes of the political spectrum.Today, accelerated by a pandemic, global conflict and rapid technological change, their ideas are becoming more widespread: QAnon proponents run for U.S. Congress, neo-fascists win elections in Europe, and celebrity influencers spread dangerous myths to millions. Going Mainstream asks the question: ...
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Quantum Supremacy
How Quantum Computers will Unlock the Mysteries of Science and Address Humanity s Biggest Challenges
- Penguin Books Ltd, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-0-14-199945-6
EAN 9780141999456
The runaway success of the microchip processor may be nearing its end, with profound implications for our economy, society and way of life, even leaving Silicon Valley as a new Rust Belt, its technology obsolete. Step forward the quantum computer, which harnesses the power and complexity of the atomic realm, and may be useful in ...
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- Profile Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 192 páginas
PVP: 14,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-297-5
EAN 9781788162975
Peer into a microscopic world - and fall in love with the beauty of the brain There are more than 100 billion brain cells in our heads, and every single one represents a fragment of thought and feeling. And yet each cell is a mystery of beauty, with branching, intricate patterns like shattered glass. Richard ...
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Mathematical Intelligence
What We Have that Machines Don't
- Profile Books, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 352 páginas
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-684-3
EAN 9781788166843
There's so much talk about the threat posed by intelligent machines that it sometimes seems as though we should surrender to our robot overlords. But Junaid Mubeen isn't ready to throw in the towel just yet. As far as he is concerned, we have the creative edge over machines, because of a remarkable system of ...
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Acemoglu, Daron; Johnson, Simon
Power and Progress
Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity
- John Murray Press, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,25 €
ISBN 978-1-399-80447-9
EAN 9781399804479
LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE LONGLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES AND SCHRODERS BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE LIONEL GELBER PRIZE A FINANCIAL TIMES TECHNOLOGY BOOK OF THE YEAR A thousand years of history and contemporary evidence make one thing clear. Progress is not automatic but depends on the choices we make ...
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What an Owl Knows
The New Science of the World s Most Enigmatic Birds
- Oneworld, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 352 páginas
PVP: 24,25 €
ISBN 978-0-86154-690-9
EAN 9780861546909
And if anyone knows anything about anything it's Owl who knows something about something.' Winnie-the-Pooh, A. A. MilneFrom prehistoric cave paintings to the prints and etchings of Picasso, owls have captivated and inspired us for millennia.Whether they appear as ancient Athenian symbols of wisdom, ghostly harbingers of death, or the cuddly sidekicks of Harry Potter ...
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The Astronomers' Library
The Books that Unlocked the Mysteries of the Universe
- Frances Lincoln, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 272 páginas
PVP: 35,25 €
ISBN 978-0-7112-8981-9
EAN 9780711289819
Indulge in this collection of the best astronomy books from the past 800 years. The Astronomers' Library is a rich history of astronomy (and astrology) publishing across Europe. This is a carefully selected arrangement of publications from all over the continent â Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands, Spain, and the UK.And of course, as the original ...
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Determined
The Science of Life Without Free Will
- Random House UK, 2024
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 19,25 €
ISBN 978-1-5299-2006-2
EAN 9781529920062
One of the world's greatest scientists of human behaviour, the bestselling author of Behave, shows that free will does not exist - and sets out the disturbing yet liberating implications of accepting this fact. One of the best scientist-writers of our time' OLIVER SACKSWhat if free will is an illusion? As Robert Sapolsky shows in ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 16,50 €
ISBN 978-1-80499-112-1
EAN 9781804991121
A wonderful book about Stephen Hawking's biggest legacy' Spectator'Truly mind-stretching... Immensely rewarding' The Times'This superbly written book offers insight into an extraordinary individual, the creative process, and the scope and limits of our current understanding of the cosmos' Sir Martin ReesStephen Hawking's closest collaborator offers the intellectual superstar's final thoughts on the universe. Perhaps the ...
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