History & Philosophy of Science
epub |eng | 2009-02-09 | Author:Barry Mazur

Nabokov then points out a structural problem: “a beetle has no eyelids and therefore cannot close its eyes—a beetle with human eyes.” And to resolve it, he writes: [Gregor] is ...
( Category: History & Philosophy of Science August 18,2020 )
epub |eng | 2004-08-14 | Author:Marcia Bartusiak [Bartusiak, Marcia]

* 40 / Beyond the White Dwarf Within two decades of the discovery of the extremely dense white dwarf star, theorists working with the new laws of relativity and quantum ...
( Category: History & Philosophy of Science August 18,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Alex Ely Kossovsky

Here the horizontal line AB represents a physical flat plane on which an object is carried uniformly from A to B and then continues beyond B over empty space where ...
( Category: History & Philosophy of Science August 15,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Unknown

Conjecture Suppose that is an indecomposable Majorana algebra in which for every there exists a pair of Majorana involutions and , such that the order of the product is i. ...
( Category: Computer Science August 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-31 | Author:John Gribbin

No. 53 SPARKING RADIO IN TO LIFE Electromagnetism, Maxwell’s equations, and light were all cornerstones of scientific experiment and research in the late nineteenth century. At the same time that ...
( Category: History & Philosophy of Science August 15,2020 )
epub |eng | 2012-10-12 | Author:Martin Gardner

CHAPTER 16 Medical Cults IN NO OTHER field have pseudo-scientists flourished as prominently as in the field of medicine. It is not hard to understand why. In the first place, ...
( Category: History & Philosophy of Science August 14,2020 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2017-08-09 | Author:Peter Hollins [Hollins, Peter]

Take, for example, the professional baseball player. Every time a professional baseball player goes up to bat, he has a roughly 72% chance of failing in front of hundreds of ...
( Category: History & Philosophy of Science August 13,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-14 | Author:Einstein, Albert, Rowe, David E., Schulmann, Robert

As an advocate of militant pacifism, Einstein was prepared to fight for a new world order that rejected war as a means for settling disputes among nations. With the world ...
( Category: Professional & Academic Biographies August 10,2020 )
epub |eng | 2013-08-14 | Author:Jammer, Max;

Fig. 3. is defined to be the angle AFS subtended by the radius r of the earths orbit. For a direct measurement of the parallax AFS the transit circle can ...
( Category: Military History August 10,2020 )
epub |eng | 2008-11-10 | Author:Louisa Gilder

Dear friend Albert Einstein …Old age is not so bad really, provided one does not have too many twinges. What have you got against being an Ichthyosaurus? They were, after ...
( Category: History & Philosophy of Science August 8,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:William C. Chittick

SUFISM One of Nasr’s subtexts is the relevance of Sufism to the contemporary situation and the catastrophic results that modern-day Muslims suffer by ignoring or rejecting it. For a great ...
( Category: History & Philosophy of Science August 8,2020 )