History & Philosophy
epub |eng | 2013-03-03 | Author:John Gribbin

Back to the future This new speculation stemmed from Schrödinger’s early fascination with thermodynamics and the way the world is governed by statistical laws. He noticed that his wave equation ...
( Category: Quantum Theory March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Matt Ridley

Chapter Eight Triplets and Chapels IN AUGUST 1960 Crick received news that he, Wilkins, and Watson were to be jointly awarded the Lasker Prize by the American Public Health Association ...
( Category: Genetics March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Henry James

* * * CHAPTER III. * * * It was for the elucidation of a mystery in one of these works that I first tried Mrs. Monarch. Her husband came ...
( Category: Short Stories March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2013-09-15 | Author:Samuel Arbesman [Arbesman, Samuel]

. . . THERE are all sorts of mathematical models for physical systems. Some try to actually mimic the complex mess we see around us, the most well-known of these ...
( Category: Probability & Statistics March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | | Author:Thomas Piketty [Piketty, Thomas]

Some Partial Explanations: Time, Taxes, and Growth In the end, then, it is hardly surprising that the concentration of wealth decreased sharply everywhere between 1910 and 1950. In other words, ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 26,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2011-08-29 | Author:Melanie Mitchell

Being a Copycat Doug Hofstadter’s plan was for me to write a computer program that could make analogies in the letter-string world by employing the same kinds of mechanisms that ...
( Category: System Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 2006-08-15 | Author:Robert Oerter

The Strong, the Weak, and the Strange By 1950, physicists had come to realize that they needed yet another classification to deal with the nuclear forces. On the one hand, ...
( Category: Nuclear Physics March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Ian Stewart

The circumstantial evidence in favour of the truth of the Riemann hypothesis – either the original, or its generalisations – is extensive. Many beautiful things would follow from the truth ...
( Category: Number Theory March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub, pdf |eng | 1998-01-01 | Author:Richard Dawkins

True pattern Reason difficult to detect Sexual intercourse is statistically followed by birth about 266 days later The exact interval varies around the average of 266 days. Intercourse more often ...
( Category: History & Surveys March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1985-04-14 | Author:James Burke

In 1763 the end of the Seven Years War meant that the government was no longer in urgent need of capital, so the rate of interest on borrowed money fell ...
( Category: Scientists March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-09-01 | Author:Charles Seife

A close election is the ideal breeding ground for proofiness of all kinds. When lawyers declared that the fluctuating vote totals in the Minnesota election were “statistically dubious”—implying that they ...
( Category: Logic March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2011-10-11 | Author:Shawn Lawrence Otto

THE FOXGATE E-MAIL SCANDAL: A CRACK IN PRONG THREE That this was a full-blown battle between climate scientists and propagandists became abundantly clear later, when the curtain was lifted for ...
( Category: Curricula March 25,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2005-12-27 | Author:Michael Shermer

These corollaries do precisely what the philosopher George Reisch requires for laws to operate when they “divide the time over which its laws purportedly act into many small consecutive intervals ...
( Category: History & Philosophy March 25,2014 )
mobi |eng | 2010-07-12 | Author:The Disappearing Spoon;Other True Tales of Madness, Love;the History of the World From the Periodic Table of the Elements

The trendy Revigator, a pottery crock lined with nuclear radium. Users filled the flask with water, which turned radioactive after a night’s soak. Instructions suggested drinking six or more refreshing ...
( Category: Inorganic March 25,2014 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-11-05 | Author:Watson, James D. & Gann, Alexander & Witkowski, Jan [Watson, James D.]

Watson, his father and sister pose for a Scandinavian Airline Systems (SAS) publicity photograph. The first formal event of the week was the Nobel Foundation’s reception for all the year’s ...
( Category: Developmental Biology March 25,2014 )