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epub |eng | 2014-09-30 | Author:Barnaby Rogerson

9 RASA Srngaram Hasyam Raudram Karunyam Bibhatsam Bhayanakam Viram Abdhutam Santam The Nine Rasa are a constant cultural refrain underlying Indian popular art, music, theatre, comics and cinema. They are ...
( Category: Trivia December 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2007-11-28 | Author:Andrew Hodges [Hodges, Andrew]

which is useful, but does not make it obvious that each Fn is an integer! This is typical in the aesthetics of mathematics: a formula or picture illuminates one aspect ...
( Category: Counting & Numeration November 29,2015 )
mobi, epub, azw3 |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Robert Kanigel

5. S. RAMANUJAN, B.A. “At Cambridge we are in darkness,” wrote Trinity vice-master Jackson in January 1915. “No gas in the streets or courts; few electric lights and those shaded; ...
( Category: Scientists November 26,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-02-07 | Author:Clifford A. Pickover

The cover of Flatland, 6th Edition, by Edwin Abbott Abbott. Notice that “My Wife” is portrayed as a line within the pentagonal house. In Flatland, women could be particularly dangerous, ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics November 4,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2010-09-27 | Author:Mlodinow, Leonard [Mlodinow, Leonard]

23. The Stuff of Space RYING TO understand what space was made of led to perhaps the greatest scientific breakthough ever. It was an intense struggle carried out for the ...
( Category: Geometry & Topology October 18,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-01 | Author:Cédric Villani [Villani, Cédric]

Princeton April 1, 2009 The first day of April—the day of fishes and fools! This afternoon watched an episode of Lady Oscar with Claire and the children. Marie-Antoinette, Axel de ...
( Category: History October 11,2015 )
epub, azw3, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Marcus du Sautoy [du Sautoy, Marcus]

CHAPTER EIGHT Machines of the Mind I propose to consider the question, ‘Can machines think?’ Alan Turing, Computing Machinery and Intelligence Alan Turing’s name will always be associated with the ...
( Category: Number Theory October 4,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-06-16 | Author:Frank Wilczek

PART 4: SUMMING UP The Census of Forces and Entities We have four fundamental forces: gravity, electromagnetism, and the strong and weak forces. All are described, theoretically, using local symmetry. ...
( Category: History July 18,2015 )
mobi |eng | 1996-05-30 | Author:Robbins, Herbert & Richard Courant [Robbins, Herbert]

Fig. 143. Closed surfaces defined by coördination of edges in plane figure. Fig. 144. Three-dimensional torus defined by boundary identification. faces of a cube (Fig. 144), we obtain a closed, ...
( Category: History July 18,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-10 | Author:Ellen Kaplan & Robert Kaplan

Here is a proof with a hypermodern flavor, outflanking the Theorem. It, too, cunningly flirts with, then slips past, trigonometry. A right triangle is uniquely determined by the length of ...
( Category: History June 21,2015 )
epub |eng | 1905-01-15 | Author:Charles Darwin [Darwin, Charles]

Correlated Variation. I mean by this expression that the whole organisation is so tied together during its growth and development, that when slight variations in any one part occur, and ...
( Category: Essays June 13,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-01-02 | Author:Doxiadis, Apostolos, Mazur, Barry & Barry Mazur [Doxiadis, Apostolos, Mazur, Barry]

Figure 10.1. A diagrammatic depiction of the relationship of rhetoric and mathematics. I shall begin my investigation slightly outside the area mapped in figure 10.1, on the left side. For ...
( Category: History June 13,2015 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ivars Peterson

Computer simulations of vibrations of a membrane shaped like a fractal snowflake reveal the first harmonic (top) and second harmonic (bottom). (Michel L. Lapidus, J. W. Neuberger, Robert J. Renka, ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics June 12,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-01 | Author:Leonard Mlodinow [Mlodinow, Leonard]

IV THE STORY OF EINSTEIN What makes space curve? Space is given a new dimension as space-time explodes on to the twentieth century and makes a Patent Office clerk the ...
( Category: Geometry & Topology June 1,2015 )