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Dynamical Systems and Fractals: Computer Graphics Experiments with Pascal

Cambridge University Press, 1989

This study of chaos, fractals and complex dynamics is intended for anyone familiar with computers. While keeping the mathematics to a simple level with few formulas, the reader is introduced to an area of current scientific research that was scarcely possible until the availability of computers. The book is divided into two main parts; the...

Maximum Linux Security (2nd Edition)

Sams Publishing, 2001

Presents in-depth configuration tips and techniques to help eliminate security threats to your LINUX-based computer or network, as delivered by an experienced computer hacker who is now a writer, and security consultant. Softcover. CD-ROM included.

Maximum Linux Security helps Linux administrators identify and plug security holes...

Masks of the Universe: Changing Ideas on the Nature of the Cosmos

Cambridge University Press, 2003

In Masks of the Universe, Edward Harrison brings together fundamental scientific, philosophical and religious issues in cosmology and raises thought provoking questions. Philosophical issues dominated cosmology in the ancient world. Theological issues ranked foremost in the Middle Ages; astronomy and the physical sciences have taken over in more...

Quantum Enigma: Physics Encounters Consciousness

Oxford University Press, 2006

The most successful theory in all of science--and the basis of one third of our economy--says the strangest things about the world and about us. Can you believe that physical reality is created by our observation of it? Physicists were forced to this conclusion, the quantum enigma, by what they observed in their laboratories.

Trying to...

The Constants of Nature: From Alpha to Omega--the Numbers That Encode the Deepest Secrets of the Universe

Pantheon, 2003

A major contribution to our understanding of the basic laws of the universe -- from the author of The Book of Nothing.

The constants of nature are the fundamental laws of physics that apply throughout the universe: gravity, velocity of light, electromagnetism and quantum mechanics. They encode the deepest secrets of the...

The Essential Galileo

Hackett Publishing, 2008

Edited and translated by Maurice A. Finocchiaro, an international authority on Galileo, this collection makes available to scholars and students an excellent and extensive selection of Galileo's key works from his early career to the end of his life - some in toto and some represented by key selections. It presents not only Galileo's most famous...

Understanding the Universe: From Quarks to the Cosmos

World Scientific Publishing, 2004

Lincoln's humor and personal tales do much to convey the flavor of modern particle physics research. -- Symmetry

The Big Bang, the birth of the universe, was a singular event. All of the matter of the universe was concentrated at a single point, with temperatures so high that even the familiar protons and...

Nature's Blueprint: Supersymmetry and the Search for a Unified Theory of Matter and Force

Collins, 2008

The first accessible book on a theory of physics that explains the relationship between the particles and forces that make up our universe.

For decades, physicists have been fascinated with the possibility that two seemingly independent aspects of our world—matter and force—may in fact be intimately...

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