World Scientific Publishing Company: 3040 books
by Neil Alford, Jean Fréchet
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Included in this proceedings is a selection of peer-reviewed scholarly papers by Saudi postgraduate researchers who presented their work at a student conference held in London at the Queen Elizabeth II Conference Centre from January 31 to February 1, 2015. The volume covers topics from fields in the...
Quantum Leaps
How Quantum Mechanics Took Over Science
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2019
In the early years of its conception, J Robert Oppenheimer spoke of quantum theory as a subject that was 'unlikely to be known to any poet or historian.' Yet, as Bernstein notes, in just sixty-odd years, one can find at least nine million entries on Google under the rubric 'quantum theory' — from...
From Micro to Macro
Adventures of a Wandering Physicist
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
This is a popular science book exploring the limits of scientific explanation. In particular, it debates if all sciences will ultimately be reducible to physics. The journey starts with physics itself, where there is a gap between the micro (quantum) and the macro (classical) and moves into chemistry,...
Mathematics of Planet Earth
A Primer
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2017
Mathematics of Planet Earth (MPE) was started and continues to be consolidated as a collaboration of mathematical science organisations around the world. These organisations work together to tackle global environmental, social and economic problems using mathematics.
This textbook introduces...
Advances in Geosciences
Volume 31: Solid Earth Science (SE)
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
This invaluable volume set of Advances in Geosciences continues the excellent tradition of the Asia-Oceania scientific community in providing the most up-to-date research results on a wide range of geosciences and environmental science. The information is vital to the understanding of the effects...
Ocean Surface Waves
Their Physics and Prediction
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2013
Latest Edition: Ocean Surface Waves: Their Physics and Prediction (3rd Edition)
The book is an extended and updated edition of the book published in 1996 under the same title (World Scientific, ISBN 9810216866). It contains a very comprehensive and extensive study on surface ocean waves induced...
Advances in Geosciences
Volume 30: Planetary Science (PS) and Solar & Terrestrial Science (ST)
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
This invaluable volume set of Advances in Geosciences continues the excellent tradition of the Asia-Oceania scientific community in providing the most up-to-date research results on a wide range of geosciences and environmental science. The information is vital to the understanding of the effects...
Advances in Geosciences
Volume 28: Atmospheric Science (AS) & Ocean Science (OS)
Language: English
Release Date: August 8, 2012
This invaluable volume set of Advances in Geosciences continues the excellent tradition of the Asia-Oceania scientific community in providing the most up-to-date research results on a wide range of geosciences and environmental science. The information is vital to the understanding of the effects...
The Power of Ideas
The Rising Influence of Thinkers and Think Tanks in China
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
China's momentous socioeconomic transformation is not taking place in an intellectual vacuum: Chinese scholars and public intellectuals are actively engaged in fervent discussions about the country's domestic and foreign policies, demographic constraints, and ever-growing integration into the world...
by Dimitrios Stamatialis
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
This book focusses on the development of biomedical membranes and their applications for (bio)artificial organs. It covers the state of art and main challenges for applying synthetic membranes in these organs. It also highlights the importance of accomplishing an integration of engineering with biology...
Henri Poincaré
A Biography Through the Daily Papers
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
On July 17, 2012, the centenary of Henri Poincaré's death was commemorated; his name being associated with so many fields of knowledge that he was considered as the Last Universalist. In Pure and Applied Mathematics, Physics, Astronomy, Engineering and Philosophy, his works have had a great impact...
The Oskar Klein Memorial Lectures
19881999
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2014
The Oskar Klein Memorial Lecture series has become a very successful tradition in Swedish physics since it started in 1988. Theoretical high-energy physics dominates the subjects of the lectures, mirroring one of Klein's own main interests.
This single volume is a compilation of the unique...
Research on the Physics of Cancer
A Global Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
There is something special about cancer compared to other diseases. It is a horrific disease that has defied attempts to find a reliable cure. Life spans after diagnosis have increased, but the mortality rate has remained about the same even after 40 years of extensive research. Cancer provides a...
Let There Be Light
The Story of Light from Atoms to Galaxies
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2008
This book is the first of its kind to devote itself at this level to the key role played by light and electromagnetic radiation in the universe. Readers are introduced to philosophical hypotheses such as the economy, symmetry, and universality of natural laws, and are then guided to practical consequences...