A Next Big Idea Club "Must Read" for December 2023 As all aspects of our social and informational lives increasingly migrate online, the line between what is "real" and what is digitally fabricated...

When we think of electricity, we likely imagine the energy humming inside our home appliances or lighting up our electronic devices -- or perhaps we envision the lightning-streaked clouds of a stormy...

This book is a comprehensive treatment of the general (algebraic) theory of symmetric domains. Originally published in 1981. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to...

686 illustrations, 40 in color. Chaos and fractals have been riding a wave that has enveloped many areas of mathematics and the natural sciences in its power, creativity and expanse. Traveling far...

New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester returns with a thought-provoking history of the wind, written in his edifying and entertaining style. What is going on with our atmosphere? The...

This concise volume offers undergraduate students of chemistry an introduction to the mathematical formalism encountered in problems of molecular structure and motion. The author presents only two...

These seemingly disparate pursuits come together in Gell-Mann's current work at the Santa Fe Institute, where scientists are investigating the similarities and differences among complex adaptive...

Examines theories about the creation of the universe, argues that matter and energy have the ability to self-organize, and suggests that the universe is developing along a predestined plan

Phillip Fried's sixth collection. A humorous and yet also mysterious evocation of esoteric physics and theology. The title poem presents a mystic/scientific quest for an impossible geometry as both a...

In his foreword to Schrödinger's Machines, Paul Davies writes, "The nineteenth century was known as the machine age, the twentieth century will go down in history as the information age. I believe...

Using simple mathematical formulas, most as basic as Pythagoras's theorem and requiring only a very limited knowledge of mathematics, Professor Huntley explores the fascinating relationship between...

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Despite the intensive research of the past quarter century, there still is no single book that examines all major aspects of the medieval scientific enterprise in depth. This illustrated volume is...

1970 The Structure of Scientific Revolutions Second Edition, Enlarged (P) by Thomas S. Kuhn ***ISBN-13: 9780226458045 ***210 Pages

A "thrilling biography of one of the 20th century's greatest minds" (David Eagleman): Francis Crick, codiscoverer of the structure of DNA, pioneering neuroscientist, and audacious genius What are...

In his most extraordinary book, “one of the great clinical writers of the twentieth century” (The New York Times) recounts the case histories of patients lost in the bizarre, apparently inescapable...

According to a profile in The Guardian, Mary Midgley is 'the foremost scourge of scientific pretensions in this country; someone whose wit is admired even by those who feel she sometimes oversteps...