Friction, the force that resists motion, has shaped technological progress for millennia. Jennifer Vail shows how the quest to master friction has driven innovation, culture, and even human evolution...

What is the best way to photograph a speeding bullet? Why does light move through glass in the least amount of time possible? How can lost hikers find their way out of a forest? What will rainbows...

A cornerstone of applied probability, Markov chains can be used to help model how plants grow, chemicals react, and atoms diffuse--and applications are increasingly being found in such areas as...

In his classic work of geometry, Euclid focused on the properties of flat surfaces. In the age of exploration, mapmakers such as Mercator had to concern themselves with the properties of spherical...

This volume represents a vital resource - a new edition of the highly successful collection of classic and contemporary articles in philosophy of mind and cognition.

D. R. J. Chillingworth. Includes Index. Bibliography: P. 273-283.

Book by Charles Jordan

This topology textbook contains more than enough material for a full year course. Arrangement is in 19 chapters. A sampling of topics: the basic constructs, connectedness and compactness, metric...

What is good science? What goal--if any--is the proper end of scientific activity? Is there a legitimating authority that scientists mayclaim? Howserious athreat are the anti-science movements? These...

Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is widely taken to be the starting point of the modern period of mathematics while David Hilbert was the last great mainstream mathematician to pursue...

Numerical Initial Value Problems in Ordinary Differential Equations (Automatic Computation)

This book represents an attempt to collect and systematise the methods and main applications of the method of sugery, insofar as compact (but not necessarily connected, simply-connected or slosed)...

Hypnosis, confabulation, source amnesia, flashbulb memories, repression--these and numerous additional topics are explored in this timely collection of essays by eminent scholars in a range of...

A dazzling tour of the history of technology and its complex relationship to the human bodyWhat is the relationship between our bodies and our senses and technology? In today's world of blinding...

Early formal specifications of natural language syntax were quite closely connected to the notion of abstract machines for computing them. More recently, this approach has been superseded by one in...

The War Scientists puts inventors of world-changing military technologies under the microscope. In doing so, it reveals the faces behind these innovations. Craughwell examines their motivations,...

"A biography of the Spanish neuroscientist Santiago Ramón y Cajal"--

In this influential and controversial work Chomsky draws on philosophy, biology, and the study of the mind to consider the nature of human cognitive capacities, particularly as they are expressed in...