Классический фундаментальный труд известного американского антрополога Карлтона С. Куна. В книге обозревается антропологическая...
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Why do even well-educated people understand so little about mathematics? And what are the costs of our innumeracy? John Allen Paulos, in his celebrated bestseller first published in 1988, argues that our inability to deal rationally with very large...
Большую часть жизни я прыгал с парашютом — сначала как спортсмен-любитель, потом как парашютист-испытатель. Еще в конце девяностых —...
Биографии и мемуары, Другие научные
The Man Who Knew Too Much: Alan Turing and the Invention of the Computer
To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary computer. Then, attempting to break a Nazi code during World War II, he successfully designed and built one, thus ensuring the Allied victory. Turing...
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Квантовое превосходство: Революция в вычислениях, которая изменит всё
В книге «Квантовое превосходство» известный физик и непревзойденный популяризатор науки Митио Каку рассматривает феномен квантовых...
You are missing most of what is happening around you right now. You are missing what is happening in the distance and right in front of you. In reading these words, you are ignoring an unthinkably large amount of information that continues to...
Pulitzer Prize–winning biologist Edward O. Wilson imparts the wisdom of his storied career to the next generation.
Edward O. Wilson has distilled sixty years of teaching into a book for students, young and old. Reflecting on his coming-of-age in...
Geometry defines the world around us, helping us make sense of everything from architecture to military science to fashion. And for over two thousand years, geometry has been equated with Euclid’s Elements, arguably the most influential book in...
A history of gravity, and a study of its importance and relevance to our lives, as well as its influence on other areas of science.
Physicists will tell you that four forces control the universe. Of these, gravity may the most obvious, but it is...
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