Amir D Aczel: 13 books
by Amir D. Aczel
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Un libro persuasivo y ampliamente documentado que responde, con argumentos científicos, a la pregunta: ¿realmente la ciencia invalida a Dios?
En años recientes, un grupo de renombrados científicos e intelectuales -en el que destacan Richard Dawkins, Lawrence Krauss y el recientemente fallecido...
Finding Zero
A Mathematician's Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
The invention of numerals is perhaps the greatest abstraction the human mind has ever created. Virtually everything in our lives is digital, numerical, or quantified. The story of how and where we got these numerals, which we so depend on, has for thousands of years been shrouded in mystery. Finding...
Uranium Wars
The Scientific Rivalry that Created the Nuclear Age
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2009
Called "one of our best science popularizers" by Publishers Weekly, Amir Aczel now tackles the cause of one of last century's most destructive events -- the scientific discovery of nuclear power. Drawing on his rich storytelling skills, Aczel presents the fascinating and suspenseful story...
Present at the Creation
Discovering the Higgs Boson
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
The Large Hadron Collider is the biggest, and by far the most powerful, machine ever built. A project of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, its audacious purpose is to re-create, in a 16.5-mile-long circular tunnel under the French-Swiss countryside, the immensely hot and dense...
Pendulum
Leon Foucault and the Triumph of Science
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2007
In 1851, struggling, self-taught physicist Léon Foucault performed a dramatic demonstration inside the Panthéon in Paris. By tracking a pendulum's path as it swung repeatedly across the interior of the large ceremonial hall, Foucault offered the first definitive proof -- before an audience that...
The Cave and the Cathedral
How a Real-Life Indiana Jones and a Renegade Scholar Decoded the Ancient Art of Man
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2010
What Are The Ancients Trying To Tell Us?
"Why would the Cro-Magnon hunter-gatherers of Europe expend so much time and effort to penetrate into deep, dark, and dangerous caverns, where they might encounter cave bears and lions or get lost and die, aided only by the dim glow of animal fat–burning...
by Amir D. Aczel, Ph.D.
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 24, 2014
For thousands of years, it was the visionaries and writers who argued that we cannot be alone-that there is intellegent life in the universe. Now, with the discoveries of the Hubble Telescope, data emerging from Mars, and knowledge about life at the extremes, scientists are taking up where they left...
A Strange Wilderness
The Lives of the Great Mathematicians
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2011
“Mathematics is not a careful march down a well-cleared highway, but a journey into a strange wilderness, where the explorers often get lost.”-- Mathematics historian W. S. Anglin From the internationally bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem comes a landmark publication on the eccentric lives...
Las guerras del uranio
Una rivalidad científica que dio origen a la era atómica
Language: Spanish
Release Date: September 4, 2014
En el siglo XX, el radio, un elemento que en apariencia no reviste características particulares, acabó convirtiéndose en un metal más buscado que el oro: al ser muy pesado, posee un núcleo inestable y radioactivo que al romperse libera una inmensa cantidad de energía, la clase de energía más...
Descartes's Secret Notebook
A True Tale of Mathematics, Mysticism, and the Quest to Understand the Universe
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2009
René Descartes (1596—1650) is one of the towering and central figures in Western philosophy and mathematics. His apothegm “Cogito, ergo sum” marked the birth of the mind-body problem, while his creation of so-called Cartesian coordinates has made our intellectual conquest of physical space...
by Amir D. Aczel
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2009
Nicolas Bourbaki, whose mathematical publications began to appear in the late 1930s and continued to be published through most of the twentieth century, was a direct product as well as a major force behind an important revolution that took place in the early decades of the twentieth century that completely...
My Search for Ramanujan
How I Learned to Count
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2016
"The son of a prominent Japanese mathematician who came to the United States after World War II, Ken Ono was raised on a diet of high expectations and little praise. Rebelling against his pressure-cooker of a life, Ken determined to drop out of high school to follow his own path. To obtain his...
El último teorema de Fermat
El secreto de un antiguo problema matemático
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Desde los anónimos babilonios y agrimensores egipcios, pasando por Pitágoras y sus seguidores, Arquímedes y Diofanto, hasta llegar al mundo árabe, el autor traza el camino que llevó a la solución del último teorema de Fermat, una ruta llena de intrigas y falsas atribuciones