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Repackaged, this profound and accessible book details how science is studying nature s best ideas to solve our toughest 21st-century problems.If chaos theory transformed our view of the universe, biomimicry is transforming our life on earth. Biomimicry is innovation inspired by nature--taking advantage of evolution s 3.8 billion years of Rx{0026}D since the first bacteria. ...
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Innumeracy
Mathematical Illiteracy and its Consequences
- Penguin UK, 2001
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-14-029120-9
EAN 9780140291209
Why do even well-educated people understand so little about mathematics? And what are the costs of our innumeracy? John Allen Paulos, in his celebrated bestseller first published in 1988, argues that our inability to deal rationally with very large numbers and the probabilities associated with them results in misinformed governmental policies, confused personal decisions, and ...
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- Heinle & Heinle, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 520 páginas
PVP: 147,85 €
ISBN 978-0-534-37388-7
EAN 9780534373887
The CLASSIC EDITION of Zill's respected book was designed for instructors who prefer not to emphasize technology, modeling, and applications, but instead want to focus on fundamental theory and techniques. Zill's CLASSIC EDITION, a reissue of the fifth edition, offers his excellent writing style, a flexible organization, an accessible level of presentation, and a wide ...
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Spectrum of Belief
Joseph von Fraunhofer and the Craft of Precision Optics
- MIT Press, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 296 páginas
PVP: 32,50 €
ISBN 978-0-262-52723-1
EAN 9780262527231
In the nineteenth century, scientific practice underwent a dramatic transformation from personal endeavor to business enterprise. In Spectrum of Belief, Myles Jackson explores this transformation through a sociocultural history of the rise of precision optics in Germany. He uses the career of the optician Joseph von Fraunhofer (1787-1826) to probe the relationship between science and ...
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Physics and Philosophy
The Revolution in Modern Science
- Penguin UK, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 16,45 €
ISBN 978-0-14-118215-5
EAN 9780141182155
Nobel Prize winner Werner Heisenberg's classic account explains the central ideas of the quantum revolution, and his celebrated Uncertainty Principle. The theme of Heisenberg's exposition is that words and concepts familiar in daily life can lose their meaning in the world of relativity and quantum physics. This in turn has profound philosophical implications for the ...
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- Fourth Estate, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 416 páginas
PVP: 14,85 €
ISBN 978-1-85702-889-8
EAN 9781857028898
The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography From the best-selling author of Fermat's Last Theorem, The Code Book is a history of man's urge to uncover the secrets of codes, from Egyptian puzzles to modern day computer encryptions. As in Fermat's Last Theorem, Simon Singh brings life to an anstonishing story of ...
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The Sun
(Spinning Through Space)
- Hodder Wayland, 2000
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 9,74 €
ISBN 978-0-7502-2665-3
EAN 9780750226653
This text explains the Sun's role in the solar system and discusses phenomena to do with it, such as eclipses, heat, sunspots and solar flares.
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The Age of Spiritual Machines is no mere list of predictions but a prophetic blueprint for the future. Kurzweil guides us through the inexorable advances that will result in computers exceeding the memory capacity and computational ability of the human brain. According to Kurzweil, machines will achieve all this by 2020, with human attributes not ...
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- Orion, 1999
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 272 páginas
PVP: 15,00 €
ISBN 978-0-7538-0851-1
EAN 9780753808511
Whilst living amongst Peruvian Indians, anthropologist Jeremy Narby learned of their phenomenal knowledge of plants and biochemical interactions, gained under the influence of the hallucinogen ayahuasca. Despite his initial scepticism, Narby found himself engaged in an increasingly obsessive quest. He researched cutting-edge scholarship in subjects as diverse as molecular biology, shamanism, neurology and mythology, which ...
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Gödel, Escher, Bach
An Eternal Golden Braid
- Perseus, 1999
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 824 páginas
PVP: 30,75 €
ISBN 978-0-465-02656-2
EAN 9780465026562
This groundbreaking Pulitzer Prize-winning book sets the standard for interdisciplinary writing, exploring the patterns and symbols in the thinking of mathematician Kurt Godel, artist M.C. Escher, and composer Johann Sebastian Bach.
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- Bantam, 1998
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 17,95 €
ISBN 978-0-553-38016-3
EAN 9780553380163
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- Modern Library, 1998
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 720 páginas
PVP: 13,00 €
ISBN 978-0-375-75146-2
EAN 9780375751462
Perhaps the most readable and accessible of the great works of scientific imagination, The Origin of Species sold out on the day it was published in 1859. Theologians quickly labeled Charles Darwin the most dangerous man in England, and, as the Saturday Review noted, the uproar over the book quickly "passed beyond the bounds of ...
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Richard Sutton and Andrew Barto provide a clear and simple account of the key ideas and algorithms of reinforcement learning. Their discussion ranges from the history of the field's intellectual foundations to the most recent developments and applications. Reinforcement learning, one of the most active research areas in artificial intelligence, is a computational approach to ...
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- John Wiley, 1997
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 23,55 €
ISBN 978-0-471-17661-9
EAN 9780471176619
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- Wordsworth, 1996
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 7,75 €
ISBN 978-1-85326-476-4
EAN 9781853264764
Charles Darwin's travels around the world as an independent naturalist on HMS Beagle between 1831 and 1836 impressed upon him a sense of the natural world's beauty, sublimity and otherness which language could barely capture. This journal takes the reader from the coasts and interiors of South America to the South Sea Islands. It displays ...
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The Eighth Day of Creation
Makers of the Revolution in Biology, Commemorative Edition
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 720 páginas
PVP: 87,70 €
ISBN 978-0-87969-478-4
EAN 9780879694784
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- Hodder & Stoughton, 1995
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 13,50 €
ISBN 978-0-340-63806-4
EAN 9780340638064
April 13, 1970. Astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert are hurtling towards the moon in the Apollo 13 spacecraft, when an explosion rocks the ship. The cockpit grows dim, the air grows thin, and the instrument lights wink out.Moments later, the astronauts are forced to abandon the main ship for the tiny lunar ...
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