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Black Bodies and Quantum Cats: Tales of Pure Genius and Mad Science
Black Bodies and Quantum Cats: Tales of Pure Genius and Mad Science
Physics has the reputation, not entirely undeserved, of being a difficult subject. Books about physics are often avoided, and that’s too bad, because the questions that engage physicists are of interest to anyone with curiosity about the universe we live in.

The story of physics, as played out in the lives of physicists, inventors,
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The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers

An affectionate if impressionistic portrayal of one of the century's greatest and strangest mathematicians. Though little known among nonmathematicians, Erdos, who died in 1996 at age 83, was a legend among his colleagues. According to Hoffman (Archimedes' Revenge, 1988), the Hungarian was so devoted to mathematics that he went without...

The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern
The Unfinished Game: Pascal, Fermat, and the Seventeenth-Century Letter that Made the World Modern
PublishersWeekly.com
“This informative book is a lively, quick read for anyone who wonders about the science of predicting what’s next and how deeply it affects our lives.”

New Scientist
“This breezy book shows why probability theory, though
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Ancient Engineers' Inventions: Precursors of the Present (History of Mechanism and Machine Science)
Ancient Engineers' Inventions: Precursors of the Present (History of Mechanism and Machine Science)
This book describes inventions and designs of ancient engineers that are the precursors of the present. The ages mainly range from 300 B.C. to 1600 A.D. with some exceptions from before and after this period.

As for the very ancient ones, the book describes inventions (documented by archaeological finds mainly from Pompei, Ercolano and Stabia)...

You Are a Mathematician: A Wise and Witty Introduction to the Joy of Numbers
You Are a Mathematician: A Wise and Witty Introduction to the Joy of Numbers

What is the largest number less than 1?

If x and y are any of two different positive numbers, which is larger, x2 + y2 or 2xy?

What do you get if you cross a cube and an octahedron?

Discover the surprising answers as David Wells conclusively proves that: you Are a mathematician

Praise for David Wells's

The...

Twitter Tips, Tricks, and Tweets
Twitter Tips, Tricks, and Tweets
If you’re one of the millions of users joining Twitter to connect to friends, family, and interest groups; or to follow the conversation and find out what’s happening beyond your doorstep, then this full color, 288 page book is for you. Coverage on how to establish a Twitter account, tweet from mobile devices, search for people and...
Thomas Hardy's 'Poetical Matter' Notebook
Thomas Hardy's 'Poetical Matter' Notebook
...the notebook offers a rich and vivid demonstration of the ways in which Hardy, astonishingly creative even into his mid-80s, worked persistently with ideas towards so many of the poems which were gathered into the remarkable final volume, Winter Words. With particular value from a biographical standpoint, we can catch tantalising glimpses of the...
The Fifth Postulate: How Unraveling A Two Thousand Year Old Mystery Unraveled the Universe
The Fifth Postulate: How Unraveling A Two Thousand Year Old Mystery Unraveled the Universe
What do Einstein's theory of relativity, string theory, and lots of other mind-bending—and space-bending—revelations of modern physics have in common? None of them could have been discovered until scientists and mathematicians recognized an uncomfortable truth—that there was a reason the world's greatest mathematical minds had...
Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine: The Master Codebreaker's Struggle to Build the Modern Computer
Alan Turing's Automatic Computing Engine: The Master Codebreaker's Struggle to Build the Modern Computer
the amount of information collected by the editor is huge and it offers interesting reading for anybody with a deep interest in computer history. EMS Newsletter Wonderful...The Essential Turing is a must. J. Bowen, The Times Higher Education Supplement This book (and the related website of the Turing Archive) will be an invaluable reference for...
Curves and Singularities
Curves and Singularities
The object of this book is to introduce to a new generation of students an area of mathematics that has received a tremendous impetus during the last twenty years or so from developments in singularity theory.

The differential geometry of curves, families of curves and surfaces in Euclidean space has fascinated mathematicians and users
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My iPod touch
My iPod touch
Covers OS 3.0

 

Step-by-step instructions with callouts to iPod touch photos so that you can see exactly what to do.

Help when you run into iPod touch problems or limitations.

Tips and Notes to help you get the most from your iPod...

The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Or The After-Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane
The Tibetan Book of the Dead: Or The After-Death Experiences on the Bardo Plane
"Dr. Evans-Wentz, who literally sat at the feet of a Tibetan lama for years in order to acquire his wisdom...not only displays a deeply sympathetic interest in those esoteric doctrines so characteristic of the genius of the East, but likewise possesses the rare faculty of making them more or less intelligible to the layman."--Anthropology...
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