Gordon, Gary; Gordon, Hannah; Gordon, Rebecca; McMahon, Liz
Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 18,75 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19232-1
EAN 9780691192321
A mathematical exploration of the popular card game SETHave you ever played the addictive card game SET? Have you ever wondered about the connections between games and mathematics? If the answer to either question is "yes," then The Joy of SET is the book for you! The Joy of SET takes readers on a fascinating ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 20,40 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19230-7
EAN 9780691192307
A mathematician's ten-year quest to tell Fibonacci's storyIn 2000, Keith Devlin set out to research the life and legacy of the medieval mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, popularly known as Fibonacci, whose book Liber abbaci, or the "Book of Calculation," introduced modern arithmetic to the Western world. Although most famous for the Fibonacci numbers--which, it so ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 240 páginas
PVP: 18,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-546-7
EAN 9781785785467
Nikola Tesla was a bundle of contradictions - a consummate showman and a private recluse; a man of science addicted to self-promotion; a prolific inventor of technologies that made other people's fortunes. Tesla made giant leaps in the technology of electrical supply, X-rays, radio remote control, and wireless electrical transmission. He embodied the aspirations and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 160 páginas
PVP: 17,50 €
ISBN 978-0-241-39936-1
EAN 9780241399361
James Lovelock, creator of the Gaia hypothesis and the greatest environmental thinker of our time, has produced an astounding new theory about future of life on Earth. He argues that the anthropocene - the age in which humans acquired planetary-scale technologies - is, after 300 years, coming to an end. A new age - the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 256 páginas
PVP: 12,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-029-2
EAN 9781788160292
Most of us think of Darwin at work on The Beagle, taking inspiration for his theory of evolution from his travels in the Galapagos. But Darwin published his Origin of Species nearly thirty years after his voyages and most of his labours in that time were focused on experimenting with and observing plants at his ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-0-7535-5280-3
EAN 9780753552803
If you found maths lessons at school irrelevant and boring, that's because you didn't have a teacher like Bobby Seagull. ***As seen on BBC 2's Monkman x{0026} Seagull's Genius Guide to Britain*** Long before his rise to cult fandom on University Challenge, Bobby Seagull was obsessed with numbers. They were the keys that unlocked the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 14,00 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-039-1
EAN 9781788160391
For thousands of years, mathematicians have used the timeless art of logic to see the world more clearly. In The Art of Logic, Royal Society Science Book Prize nominee Eugenia Cheng shows how anyone can think like a mathematician - and see, argue and think better. Learn how to simplify complex decisions without over-simplifying them.Discover ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 288 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-78607-485-0
EAN 9781786074850
Is anything truly random? Does infinity actually exist? Could we ever see into other dimensions?In this delightful journey of discovery, David Darling and extraordinary child prodigy Agnijo Banerjee draw connections between the cutting edge of modern maths and life as we understand it, delving into the strange - would we like alien music? - and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 640 páginas
PVP: 40,00 €
ISBN 978-3-8365-7267-5
EAN 9783836572675
Desde sus inicios en 1990, Internet ha visto aparecer más de mil millones de webs, aunque sus interfaces no han sido siempre elegantes. Este recorrido visual por la historia de Internet recoge los primeros ejemplos de lo que hoy damos por sentado, desde la primera web con sonido envolvente hasta la primera función 'carga tu ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 256 páginas
PVP: 21,75 €
ISBN 978-0-00-828246-2
EAN 9780008282462
Marking the 50th anniversary of Neil Armstrong's `small step' this beautiful book explores people's fascination with our only natural satellite. Published to coincide with Royal Museums Greenwich's exhibition The Moon, immerse yourself in contemporary essays and fascinating images wrapped in a sleek design. Edited by the exhibition's curators, Melanie Vandenbrouck, Megan Barford, Louise Devoy and ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 288 páginas
PVP: 35,30 €
ISBN 978-0-231-18670-4
EAN 9780231186704
There are few fields of science that carbon-14 has not touched. A radioactive isotope of carbon, it stands out for its unusually long half-life. Best known for its application to estimating the age of artifacts--carbon dating--carbon-14 helped reveal new chronologies of human civilization and geological time.Everything containing carbon, the basis of all life, could be ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 640 páginas
PVP: 22,45 €
ISBN 978-0-691-19229-1
EAN 9780691192291
A mathematical tour of some of the greatest unsolved ciphers of all timeIn 1953, a man was found dead from cyanide poisoning near the Philadelphia airport with a picture of a Nazi aircraft in his wallet and an enciphered message taped to his abdomen. In 1912, a book dealer named Wilfrid Voynich came into possession ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 160 páginas
PVP: 10,75 €
ISBN 978-0-19-883174-7
EAN 9780198831747
The study of human evolution is advancing rapidly. Newly discovered fossil evidence is adding ever more pieces to the puzzle of our past, whilst revolutionary technological advances in the study of ancient DNA are completely reshaping theories of early human populations and migrations. In this Very Short Introduction Bernard Wood traces the history of paleoanthropology ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 15,75 €
ISBN 978-1-5098-9657-8
EAN 9781509896578
In July 1969, Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins piloted the Apollo 11 spacecraft to the moon. Fifty years later, it is still one of the greatest achievements in human history. In this remarkable memoir, a defining classic, Michael Collins conveys, in a very personal way, the drama, beauty, and humour of that adventure.He ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 13,75 €
ISBN 978-1-78609-002-7
EAN 9781786090027
**A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK**'A stylish, playful exploration of what digital life is doing to the way we find meaning in the world.' Guardian, 'Book of the Week''A report from the front line of the digital generation by someone superbly well-equipped to read and decode the signals.' Sunday Times________________________ It used to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 224 páginas
PVP: 12,70 €
ISBN 978-0-486-24401-3
EAN 9780486244013
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 192 páginas
PVP: 9,80 €
ISBN 978-1-78929-102-5
EAN 9781789291025
The periodic table, created in the early 1860s by Russian chemist Dmitri Mendeleev, marked one of the most extraordinary advances in modern chemistry. This basic visual aid helped scientists to gain a deeper understanding of what chemical elements really were: and, astonishingly, it also correctly predicted the properties of elements that hadn't been discovered at ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 304 páginas
PVP: 14,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78578-412-5
EAN 9781785784125
In this enthralling cosmic journey through space and time, astrophysicist Jillian Scudder locates our home planet within its own `family tree'. Our parent the Earth and its sibling planets in our solar system formed within the same gas cloud. Without our grandparent the Sun, we would not exist, and the Sun in turn relies on ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 320 páginas
PVP: 21,25 €
ISBN 978-1-78816-228-9
EAN 9781788162289
Uncertainty is everywhere. It lurks in every consideration of the future - the weather, the economy, the sex of an unborn child - even quantities we think that we know such as populations or the transit of the planets contain the possibility of error. It's no wonder that, throughout that history, we have attempted to ...
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Uncertainty is everywhere. It lurks in every consideration of the future - the weather, the economy, the sex of an unborn child - even quantities we think that we know such as populations or the transit of the planets contain the possibility of error. It's no wonder that, throughout that history, we have attempted to ...
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