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From the cubit to the kilogram, the humble inch to the speed of light, measurement is a powerful tool that humans invented to make sense of the world. In this revelatory work of …
Finalist for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award"e;What a fun escape! Reminds me of math books I read when I was coming of age."e; Neil deGrasse TysonAn …
In the tradition of Sylvia Nasar's A Beautiful Mind, this penetrating work explores the amazing imagination and mathematical genius of the man who wrote Alice's Adventures in …
Our universe has multiple origin stories, from religious creation myths to the Big Bang of scientists. But if we leave those behind and start from nothing--no matter, no cosmos, …
The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear the …
The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Nuclear weapons and self-replicating spacecrafts. All bear the …
Beginning with the Babylonian and Egyptian mathematicians of antiquity, IvorGrattan-Guinness "succeeds masterfully in viewing the history of mathematics from a new perspective." …