The practice of weather forecasting underwent a crucial transformation in the Middle Ages. Exploring how scientifically-based meteorology spread and flourished from c.700–c.1600, this study reveals ……続きを見る
著者:Jimena Canales
出版社: Princeton University Press
発売日: 2020年11月10日
How scientists through the ages have conducted thought experiments using imaginary entitiesーdemonsーto test the laws of nature and push the frontiers of what is possible
Science may be known for ba……続きを見る
In this book the authors present new results on interpolation for nonmonotonic logics, abstract (function) independence, the Talmudic Kal Vachomer rule, and an equational solution of contrary-to-dut……続きを見る
From man's first exploration of natural materials and their transformations to today's materials science, chemistry has always been the central discipline that underpins both the physical and biolog……続きを見る
著者:George G. Szpiro
出版社: Columbia University Press
発売日: 2020年01月07日
At its core, economics is about making decisions. In the history of economic thought, great intellectual prowess has been exerted toward devising exquisite theories of optimal decision making in sit……続きを見る
著者:Hugh Cagle
出版社: Cambridge University Press
発売日: 2018年09月30日
From popular fiction to modern biomedicine, the tropics are defined by two essential features: prodigious nature and debilitating illness. That was not always so. In this engaging and imaginative st……続きを見る
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2019年12月13日
The contributions gathered here demonstrate how categorical ontology can provide a basis for linking three important basic sciences: mathematics, physics, and philosophy. Category theory is a new fo……続きを見る
Set theory is a rich and beautiful subject whose fundamental concepts permeate virtually every branch of mathematics. One could say that set theory is a unifying theory for mathematics, since nearly……続きを見る
The smooth functioning of an ordered society depends on the possession of a means of regularising its activities over time. That means is a calendar, and its regularity is a function of how well it ……続きを見る
This exceptional graphic novel recounts the spiritual odyssey of philosopher Bertrand Russell. In his agonized search for absolute truth, Russell crosses paths with legendary thinkers like Gottlob F……続きを見る
Harry Collins and Trevor Pinch liken science to the Golem, a creature from Jewish mythology, powerful yet potentially dangerous, a gentle, helpful creature that may yet run amok at any moment. Throu……続きを見る
著者:Graeme Gooday
出版社: University of Pittsburgh Press
発売日: 2008年07月15日
This is an innovative and original socio-cultural study of the history of electricity during the late Victorian and Edward periods. Gooday shows how technology, authority and gender interacted in pr……続きを見る
‘Fascinating … so enlightening that suddenly maths doesn’t seem so fearsome as it once did’ SIMON WINCHESTER
From Aristotle to Ada Lovelace: a brief history of the mathematical ideas that have forev……続きを見る
著者:Loren Graham
出版社: Harvard University Press
発売日: 1996年02月01日
Stalin ordered his execution, but here Peter Palchinsky has the last word. As if rising from an uneasy grave, Palchinsky’s ghost leads us through the miasma of Soviet technology and industry, pointi……続きを見る
著者:Peter A. Daempfle
出版社: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
発売日: 2012年12月16日
We are constantly bombarded with breaking scientific news in the media, but we are almost never provided with enough information to assess the truth of these claims. Does drinking coffee really caus……続きを見る
During the Middle Ages, a thriving center for learning and research was Muslim Spain, where students gathered to consult Arabic manuscripts of earlier scientific works and study with famous teachers……続きを見る
Throughout the world, closely related species are found on landmasses separated by wide stretches of ocean. What explains these far-flung distributions? Why are such species found where they are acr……続きを見る
著者:Ralf Schindler
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2016年05月31日
This textbook gives an introduction to axiomatic set theory and examines the prominent questions that are relevant in current research in a manner that is accessible to students. Its main theme is t……続きを見る
著者:Max Tegmark
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2014年01月07日
Max Tegmark leads us on an astonishing journey through past, present and future, and through the physics, astronomy and mathematics that are the foundation of his work, most particularly his hypothe……続きを見る
Was unterscheidet uns Menschen vom Tier. »Westerman ist ein Meistererzähler, der mit Thriller-Effekten die Leser in seinen Bann schlägt.« Hans Christoph Buch, Die Zeit. In einer Höhle auf einer Inse……続きを見る
This book is an essay on the epistemology of classifications. Its main purpose is not to provide an exposition of an actual mathematical theory of classifications, that is, a general theory which wo……続きを見る
Mathematics is a fundamental human activity that can be practised and understood in a multitude of ways; indeed, mathematical ideas themselves are far from being fixed, but are adapted and changed b……続きを見る
“Ridley leaps from chromosome to chromosome in a handy summation of our ever increasing understanding of the roles that genes play in disease, behavior, sexual differences, and even intelligence. . ……続きを見る
This book will serve as a reference guide, and state-of-the-art review, for the wide spectrum of numerical models and computational techniques available to solve some of the most challenging problem……続きを見る
著者:Eric Pacuit
出版社: Springer International Publishing
発売日: 2017年11月23日
This book offers a state-of-the-art introduction to the basic techniques and results of neighborhood semantics for modal logic. In addition to presenting the relevant technical background, it highli……続きを見る
This title was first published in 2002. When did Africa emerge as a continent in the European mind? This book aims to trace the origins of the idea of Africa and its evolution in Renaissance thought……続きを見る
著者:Frank Wilczek
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2015年07月14日
Does the universe embody beautiful ideas?
Artists as well as scientists throughout human history have pondered this “beautiful question.” With Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek as your guide, embark on a……続きを見る
Against the backdrop of unprecedented concern for the future of health care, this Very Short Introduction surveys the history of medicine from classical times to the present. Focussing on the key tu……続きを見る
From the best-selling author of These Truths, an “exhilarating” (New York Times Book Review) account of the Cold War origins of our data-mad era.
The Simulmatics Corporation, founded in 1959, mined ……続きを見る