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Descartes's Secret Notebook
A portrait of the great seventeenth-century philosopher and mathematician looks at the contributions of Ren Descartes, his interest in mysticism and probable membership in the …
Entanglement
Could 'Beam me up, Scotty' soon become a reality? The lines between 'science' and 'science fiction' have become increasingly blurred. Now, quantum mechanics promises that some of …
Customs of Cambodia - Zhou Daguan
Finding Zero
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 …
My Search for Ramanujan
"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 …
Cave and the Cathedral
What Are The Ancients Trying To Tell Us?"e;Why would the Cro-Magnon hunter-gatherers of Europe expend so much time and effort to penetrate into deep, dark, and dangerous …
The Cave and the Cathedral
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, …
Jesuit and the Skull
Present at the Creation
The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the biggest, and by far the most powerful, machine ever built. A project of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, its audacious …
The Jesuit and the Skull: Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man
From the New York Times bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem, ?an extraordinary story?( Philadelphia Inquirer) of discovery, evolution, science, and faith. In 1929, French …