Mathematics
mobi |eng | 2011-01-04 | Author:Orson Scott Card

11 SERVANT OF SPACETIME Marion and Leslie Silverman were old enough that all of their own kids were grown and gone. The day Danny arrived there, Leslie—Mrs. Silverman—proudly showed him ...
( Category: Fantasy August 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2014-06-23 | Author:Bob Berman [Berman, Bob]

CHAPTER 12: Brooks and Breakers Earth’s Greatest Assets Are Liquid But ol’ man river, He jes’ keeps rollin’ along. —OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II, “OL’ MAN RIVER” (1927) The headline was grim. ...
( Category: Geophysics August 27,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2001-04-16 | Author:Rucker, Rudy [Rucker, Rudy]

No. 15 High Tea When we were half-way through the thickness of Cimön, Cantor stopped by a round door set into the ceiling. The door was massive with a dial ...
( Category: Science Fiction August 27,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-12-13 | Author:Edwin A. Abbot

As it is of the utmost importance for Society that Irregular births should be discouraged, it follows that no Woman who has any Irregularities in her ancestry is a fit ...
( Category: Classics August 27,2017 )
mobi, epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:The Fractal Prince

15 THE THIEF AND THE SAUNA The day before the thief leaves for Earth Mieli prepares an Oortian meal. He is in a good mood, lecturing, flashing smiles. But every ...
( Category: Mathematics August 27,2017 )
epub |eng | 1989-03-07 | Author:Dewdney, A. K [Dewdney, A. K]

THE TURING OMNIBUS (Xi + X3 + X4){xi + X2 + X4)(x2 + a:3)(ji:, + X2 + X4) (X3 + X4){X2 + X3) X2 = 0 /^ \v X. = ...
( Category: Computer Science August 26,2017 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2004-12-15 | Author:David Foster Wallace

Weierstrass is not directly in the Fourier-Cauchy-Dirichlet-Riemann academic line—up until his 40s, he’s obscure in the same way Bolzano was. His early career is spent teaching high school in West ...
( Category: Mathematics August 26,2017 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2008-12-01 | Author:Marcus Chown [Chown, Marcus]

SHADOWS OF SPACE-TIME The slowing of time and the shrinking of space is the price that must be paid so that everyone in the Universe, no matter what their state ...
( Category: Physics August 26,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2007-01-01 | Author:Nikola Tesla [Tesla, Nikola]

the Mechanical Department, offered to form a stock company. The proposal seemed to me comical in the extreme. I did not have the faintest conception of what he meant, except ...
( Category: Engineering August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-01-01 | Author:Michael Blastland & Andrew Dilnot [Blastland, Michael & Dilnot, Andrew]

Let’s do it properly. What is the baseline risk of colorectal cancer? There are two ways of describing it—an obscure one and an easy one. Skip this paragraph if you ...
( Category: Mathematics August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2008-10-01 | Author:Petrus Ramus [Ramus, Petrus]

* * * Of Geometry the twelfth Booke, Of a Quadrate. 1 A Rectangle is a Quadrate or an Oblong. This division is made in the proper termes: but the ...
( Category: Mathematics August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2009-05-13 | Author:Peterson, Martin [Peterson, Martin]

QP 5 needs to be qualified. This axiom does not require that the random variable in question really exists. It is sufficient that the agent believes that this random variable ...
( Category: History & Philosophy August 26,2017 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-08-03 | Author:John Allen Paulos [Paulos, John Allen]

4 Humor, Grammar, and Philosophy Reversal or permutation of the grammar of a sentence often results in humor. I will call this sometimes tiresome type of humor grammatical (or combinatorial) ...
( Category: Mathematics August 26,2017 )
mobi |eng | 2012-01-31 | Author:Paulos, John Allen [Paulos, John Allen]

A PARABLE OF FURIOUS FEMINIST AND THE STOCK MARKET I wrote this parable a week after the precipitous decline in the stock market in October 1997. It takes place in ...
( Category: Mathematics August 26,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-31 | Author:John Allen Paulos [Paulos, John Allen]

A PARABLE OF FURIOUS FEMINIST AND THE STOCK MARKET I wrote this parable a week after the precipitous decline in the stock market in October 1997. It takes place in ...
( Category: Mathematics August 26,2017 )