This book deals with general quantitative laws of the alteration of evolutionary and reconstructional (critical) periods of development. An equation and a model of development are introduced, which generalize a wide range of commonly accepted...
Лойд был большим энтузиастом танграма и опубликовал книгу, полностью посвящённую этой игре: Sam Loyd’s Book of Tangram Puzzles (ISBN 0-486-22011-7). Лойд также...
For centuries scientists believed that the universe was a vast machine – with enough detail, you could predict exactly what would happen. Admittedly real life wasn’t like that. But only, they argued, because we didn’t have enough data to be...
Wer Zahlen beherrscht, der hat Macht. Schon Archimedes besiegte die römische Flotte mit Mathematik, und Rechenmaschinen schlagen den Menschen im Schach und beim Jeopardy. Rudolf Taschner nimmt uns mit auf einen Streifzug durch die...
Bestselling author Professor Ian Stewart explores the history and mathematics of uncertainty. Touching on gambling, probability, statistics, financial and weather forecasts, censuses, medical studies, chaos, quantum physics, and climate, he makes...