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The Dreams That Stuff Is Made Of: The Most Astounding Papers of Quantum Physics--And How They Shook the Scientific World by Stephen Hawking
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-01-02 | Author:Stephen Hawking [Hawking, Stephen]

ACKNOWLEDGMENT The author wishes to thank Dr. Einstein for several interesting and stimulating discussions. A SUGGESTED INTERPRETATION OF THE QUANTUM THEORY IN TERMS OF “HIDDEN” VARIABLES. II BY DAVID BOHM ...
( Category: History June 27,2016 )
A Strange Wilderness by Amir D. Aczel
epub |eng | 2011-10-03 | Author:Amir D. Aczel

Catherine II, a.k.a. Catherine the Great, acted as Euler’s patron during his stay in Russia from 1766 until his death in St. Petersburg in 1783. In 1771 a fire raged ...
( Category: History June 27,2016 )
Fluke: The Math and Myth of Coincidence by Joseph Mazur
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-03-28 | Author:Joseph Mazur [Mazur, Joseph]

Story 4: The Golden Scarab Story Scarab (or Scarabaeidae) is the name given to a family consisting of a particular classification of beetle. Their large body, metallic colors, and club-shaped ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics May 29,2016 )
The Calculus Wars by Jason Socrates Bardi
epub |eng | 2016-04-30 | Author:Jason Socrates Bardi [Bardi, Jason Socrates]

FOR NEWTON, THE Principia was a turning point in his life. It gave him the confidence to write the text that would become Opticks later. Meanwhile, demand fueled work toward ...
( Category: History May 4,2016 )
Mathematics in Ancient Egypt by Imhausen Annette
epub |eng | 2016-04-28 | Author:Imhausen, Annette

NEW KINGDOM Many of today’s most famous kings and queens of Egypt ruled during the New Kingdom (1550–1069 BCE), rendering it one of the best-known periods of ancient Egypt in ...
( Category: History April 29,2016 )
The Magic of Numbers by Eric Temple Bell
epub, pdf |eng | 2014-04-23 | Author:Eric Temple Bell

CHAPTER . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 A Miscarriage of Reason YOU cannot get to the end of a race-course, because ...
( Category: Number Theory April 24,2016 )
The Perfect Bet: How Science and Math Are Taking the Luck Out of Gambling by Adam Kucharski
epub |eng | 2016-02-22 | Author:Adam Kucharski [Kucharski, Adam]

WHEN THE US CONGRESS put forward a bill in 1969 suggesting that cigarette advertisements be banned from television, people expected American tobacco companies to be furious. After all, this was ...
( Category: Intelligence & Semantics April 16,2016 )
The Great Equations by Robert P. Crease
epub |eng | 2012-04-25 | Author:Robert P. Crease

Celebrity Status Ethnographers say that when two cultures interact, they do not meet all of a piece but through “congeners” through which certain members of one culture look at, try ...
( Category: History April 11,2016 )
The Art of the Infinite by Robert Kaplan
epub |eng | 2014-04-08 | Author:Robert Kaplan

Chapter Eight Back of Beyond This has been the romance of imagination and the infinite. Like the beloved in tales as old as time, the infinite keeps escaping imagination’s stratagems, ...
( Category: Infinity April 9,2016 )
Mathematics for the Nonmathematician by Morris Kline
epub, pdf |eng | 1967-04-07 | Author:Morris Kline

14–3 THE MOTION OF A PROJECTILE DROPPED FROM AN AIRPLANE Let us see now how parametric formulas arise in the study of physical phenomena and how they can be useful ...
( Category: Pre-Calculus April 8,2016 )
Fermat's Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem by Singh Simon
epub |eng | 1997-01-01 | Author:Singh, Simon [Singh, Simon]

I wanted certainty in the kind of way in which people want religious faith. I thought that certainty is more likely to be found in mathematics than elsewhere. But I ...
( Category: Number Theory April 7,2016 )
Beautiful Geometry by Maor Eli; Jost Eugen;
epub |eng | 2013-03-11 | Author:Maor, Eli; Jost, Eugen;

NOTE: 1. For a full account of Archimedes’s method, see The Works of Archimedes, edited by T. L. Heath (New York: Dover. 1953), pp. 91–98. 28 The Digit Hunters In ...
( Category: Themes March 12,2016 )
The Principia: The Authoritative Translation by Newton Isaac Sir
epub |eng | 2016-02-04 | Author:Newton, Isaac, Sir

CASE 5. Since, therefore, any part GHI of the fluid is enclosed in the remaining fluid as if in a vessel and is pressed equally on all sides, while its ...
( Category: Movements February 28,2016 )
A Brief History of Numbers by Corry Leo
epub |eng | 2015-07-21 | Author:Corry, Leo

6.5 Euclid’s Elements in the Renaissance I would like to conclude this chapter with a particularly illuminating perspective on the contemporary conceptions of number that arises from looking at various ...
( Category: Number Theory January 6,2016 )
Mathematics for the Liberal Arts by Erickson Martin J. Bindner Donald Hemmeter Joe & Martin J. Erickson & Joe Hemmeter
epub |eng | 2014-08-13 | Author:Erickson, Martin J., Bindner, Donald, Hemmeter, Joe & Martin J. Erickson & Joe Hemmeter

Groups and Geometry Recall that a group is a set with an operation satisfying certain properties. Groups can describe the symmetries of an object. Here is a small example. Consider ...
( Category: Calculus December 27,2015 )

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