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Building the H Bomb
A Personal History
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
IN THE NEWSQ&A: Kenneth Ford on Textbooks, Popularizations, and Scientific SecrecyPhysics Today, June 2017Building the H Bomb: A Personal HistoryForum on Physics and Society, January 2017Don McCauley's audio interview with Kenneth FordThe Authors Show, 11 August 2016Mt....
by Asad-ul Iqbal Latif, Huay Leng Lee
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2015
Since his undergraduate days in Cambridge, George Yeo has spoken and written much in and out of government. Many remember the things which he said or wrote years ago. This book is a compilation of some of his best speeches and writings which were selected by Asad Latif and Lee Huay Leng in consultation...
Science in China, 16001900
Essays by Benjamin A Elman
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2015
Distinguished historian Benjamin A Elman's collective volume on the history of science in imperial China, brings together over 30 years of historical literature on the subject. With updates to the literature and new material including transcripts of podcasts and translated interview articles, Science...
Tang Dynasty Tales
A Guided ReaderVolume 2
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2016
This volume supplements Tang Tales, A Guided Reader (Volume 1; 2010) and presents twelve more Tang tales, going beyond the standard corpus of these narratives to include six stories translated into English for the first time. The rich annotation and translator's notes for these twelve tales provide...
More and Different
Notes from a Thoughtful Curmudgeon
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
Named a Top Five Book of 2012 by Physics Today, USA.
Philip Anderson was educated at University High School in Urbana, Illinois, at Harvard (BS 1943, PhD 1949), and further educated at Bell Laboratories, where his career (1949-1984) coincided with the greatest period of that remarkable institution....
by Michael A Day
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Incorporating elements from history, science, philosophy and international relations theory, this book takes a fresh look at the life and thought of Robert Oppenheimer.
The author argues that not only are Oppenheimer's ideas important, engaging and relevant, but also more coherent than generally...
Birds and Frogs
Selected Papers of Freeman Dyson, 19902014
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2015
This book is a sequel to the volume of selected papers of Dyson up to 1990 that was published by the American Mathematical Society in 1996. The present edition comprises a collection of the most interesting writings of Freeman Dyson, all personally selected by the author, from the period 1990–2014.
The...
by Hideki Yukawa, L M Brown, R Yoshida;0
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1982
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1982
This is Yukawa's autobiography of his early years, written in Japanese when he was fifty years old. It describes his family background and the education and experience, both social and intellectual, that helped to form his character and direct his career. Especially valuable to the historian of science...
by Heng Huat Chan
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
This book is written for undergraduates who wish to learn some basic results in analytic number theory. It covers topics such as Bertrand's Postulate, the Prime Number Theorem and Dirichlet's Theorem of primes in arithmetic progression.
The materials in this book are based on A Hildebrand's...
Writing the Modern History of Iraq
Historiographical and Political Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2012
The modern history of Iraq is punctuated by a series of successive and radical ruptures (coups d'etat, changes of regime, military adventures and foreign invasions) whose chronological markers are relatively easy to identify. Although researchers cannot ignore these ruptures, they should also be encouraged...
Photochemical Processes in Continuous-Flow Reactors
From Engineering Principles to Chemical Applications
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2017
Continuous-flow photochemistry is an expanding field within chemistry. It unites the mass transfer enhancement of flow chemistry with the high energy field density of microscale geometries. Moreover, it provides means to scale photochemical reactions efficiently.
This book gives an overview...
Tan Kah-Kee
The Making of an Overseas Chinese LegendRevised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2013
For a Chinese immigrant in South-East Asia to make good is not unique, but what is unique in Tan Kah-kee's case is his enormous contribution to employment and economic development in Singapore and Malaya. He was the only Chinese in history to have single-handedly founded a private university in Amoy...
You Failed Your Math Test, Comrade Einstein
Adventures and Misadventures of Young Mathematicians
Language: English
Release Date: April 27, 2005
This groundbreaking work features two essays written by the renowned mathematician Ilan Vardi. The first essay presents a thorough analysis of contrived problems suggested to “undesirable” applicants to the Department of Mathematics of Moscow University. His second essay gives an in-depth discussion...
The Tommy Koh Reader
Favourite Essays and Lectures
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2013
Professor Tommy Koh is Singapore's Ambassador-at-Large at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Rector of Tembusu College, Special Adviser of the Institute of Policy Studies, and Chairman of the Centre for International Law, National University of Singapore.
In his distinguished career, Prof Koh...