General Physics list 66

Zero

The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

by Charles Seife
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2000

Popular math at its most entertaining and enlightening. "Zero is really something"-Washington Post A New York Times Notable Book. The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshiped it, and the Church used it to fend off heretics. Now it threatens the foundations...

Simply Dirac

by Helge Kragh
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2016

Paul Dirac (1902–1984) was a brilliant mathematician and a 1933 Nobel laureate whose work ranks alongside that of Albert Einstein and Sir Isaac Newton. Although not as well known as his famous contemporaries Werner Heisenberg and Richard Feynman, his influence on the course of physics was immense....

Theories of Everything: Ideas in Profile

by Frank Close
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2017

Physicist Frank Close takes the reader to the frontiers of science in a vividly told investigation of revolutionary science and enterprise from the seventeenth century to the present. He looks at what has been meant by theories of everything, explores the scientific breakthroughs they have allowed,...

Wizards, Aliens, and Starships

Physics and Math in Fantasy and Science Fiction

by Charles L. Adler
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2014

From teleportation and space elevators to alien contact and interstellar travel, science fiction and fantasy writers have come up with some brilliant and innovative ideas. Yet how plausible are these ideas--for instance, could Mr. Weasley's flying car in the Harry Potter books really exist? Which...

The Beautiful Invisible

Creativity, imagination, and theoretical physics

by Giovanni Vignale
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2011

The realm of theoretical physics is teeming with abstract and beautiful concepts. And the task of imagining them is one that demands profound creativity, argues Giovanni Vignale. Explaining them is curiously akin to the craft of poets, or magical realist novelists such as Borges, and Musil, or Bulgakov's...

Econophysics Approaches to Large-Scale Business Data and Financial Crisis

Proceedings of Tokyo Tech-Hitotsubashi Interdisciplinary Conference + APFA7

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Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2010

In recent years, as part of the increasing “informationization” of industry and the economy, enterprises have been accumulating vast amounts of detailed data such as high-frequency transaction data in nancial markets and point-of-sale information onindividualitems in theretail sector. Similarly,vast...

Probability for Physicists

by Simon Širca
Language: English
Release Date: May 20, 2016

This book is designed as a practical and intuitive introduction to probability, statistics and random quantities for physicists. The book aims at getting to the main points by a clear, hands-on exposition supported by well-illustrated and worked-out examples. A strong focus on applications in physics...

Automatic trend estimation

by C˘alin Vamos¸, Maria Cr˘aciun
Language: English
Release Date: September 14, 2012

Our book introduces a method to evaluate the accuracy of trend estimation algorithms under conditions similar to those encountered in real time series processing. This method is based on Monte Carlo experiments with artificial time series numerically generated by an original algorithm. The second...

Traffic Flow Dynamics

Data, Models and Simulation

by Martin Treiber, Arne Kesting
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2012

This textbook provides a comprehensive and instructive coverage of vehicular traffic flow dynamics and modeling. It makes this fascinating interdisciplinary topic, which to date was only documented in parts by specialized monographs, accessible to a broad readership. Numerous figures and problems...

LAWS, LANGUAGE and LIFE

Howard Pattee’s classic papers on the physics of symbols with contemporary commentary

by Howard Hunt Pattee, Joanna Rączaszek-Leonardi
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2012

Howard Pattee is a physicist who for many years has taken his own path in studying the physics of symbols, which is now a foundation for biosemiotics. By extending von Neumann’s logical requirements for self-replication, to the physical requirements of symbolic instruction at the molecular level,...

First Complex Systems Digital Campus World E-Conference 2015

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Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2016

This book contains the proceedings as well as invited papers for the first annual conference of the UNESCO Unitwin Complex System Digital Campus (CSDC), which is an international initiative gathering 120 Universities on four continents, and structured in ten E-Departments. First Complex Systems Digital...

Physics for the IB MYP 4 & 5

By Concept

by Paul Morris
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015

The only series for MYP 4 and 5 developed in cooperation with the International Baccalaureate (IB) Develop your skills to become an inquiring learner; ensure you navigate the MYP framework with confidence using a concept-driven and assessment-focused approach presented in global contexts. -...

Elements of Physics: Space

by Edward E. Rochon
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2014

Moving on from my essay on the elements of matter, I consider the problem of space. It must be objective and external to man. I go over some axioms concerning mathematics and geometry prior to the analysis of space. I put forth the fundamental proof of space as an independent existence. Since C lies...

Fy Nodiadau Adolygu: CBAC TGAU Ffiseg (My Revision Notes: WJEC GCSE Physics, Welsh-language Edition)

by Jeremy Pollard
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018

Target success in Science with this proven formula for effective, structured revision; key content coverage is combined with exam-style tasks and practical tips to create a revision guide that students can rely on to review, strengthen and test their knowledge. With My Revision Notes, every...