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Book of Why
'Correlation does not imply causation.' This mantra was invoked by scientists for decades in order to avoid taking positions as to whether one thing caused another, such as smoking …
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect
A Turing Award-winning computer scientist and statistician shows how understanding causality has revolutionized science and will revolutionize artificial intelligence "Correlation …
Book of Why
The hugely influential book on how the understanding of causality revolutionized science and the world, by the pioneer of artificial intelligence'Wonderful ... illuminating and fun …
Big Splat, or How Our Moon Came to Be
The first popular book to explain the dramatic theory behind the Moon's genesisThis lively science history relates one of the great recent breakthroughs in planetary astronomy-a …
Conversations About Challenges in Computing
This text sheds light on how mathematical models and computing can help understanding and prediction of complicated physical processes; how communication networks should be …
Lagrangian Manifolds and the Maslov Operator
This book presents Maslov's canonical operator method for finding asymptotic solutions of pseudo differential equations. The classical WKB method, so named in honor of its authors: …
Visualizing Physical Geology
The Book of Why
'Wonderful ... illuminating and fun to read' - Daniel Kahneman, winner of the Nobel Prize and author of Thinking, Fast and Slow'"Pearl's accomplishments over the last 30 years have …
Conversations About Challenges in Computing
This text sheds light on how mathematical models and computing can help understanding and prediction of complicated physical processes; how communication networks should be …
The Universe in Zero Words
Most popular books about science, and even about mathematics, tiptoe around equations as if they were something to be hidden from the reader's tender eyes. Dana Mackenzie starts …
The Story of Mathematics
You can’t present the history of art without pictures; equally equations are central to any history of mathematics. Spanning 4,000 years of civilisation, The Story of Mathematics …
What's Happening in the Mathematical Sciences, Volume 7
Describes some genuine surprises, such as the discovery that coin tosses are inherently unfair; a mathematical theory of invisibility that was soon followed by the creation of a …