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Kurt Gödel : Mot förnuftets gränser
Kurt Gödels ofullständighetssats har gäckat matematiker, filosofer och datavetare i snart hundra år. Men till skillnad från vännen Albert Einstein har Gödels liv länge stått …
Her Majesty's Spymaster: Elizabeth I, Sir Francis Walsingham, and the Birth of Modern Espionage
Sir Francis Walsingham's official title was principal secretary to Queen Elizabeth I, but in fact this pious, tight-lipped Puritan was England's first spymaster. A ruthless, …
Nature of Horses
What does it mean to be a horse? The definitive and bestselling book explaining the mysteries of the horse using insights of modern science.
The Nature of Horses
Horses have a shared history with man going back millennia to their domestication around 4000 B.C. Yet only in very recent years have scientists begun to turn the tools of modem …
Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel
Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt G del's famous proof that every mathematical system must contain propositions that are true--yet never provable--continues to …
Truth About Dogs
Stephen Budiansky holds that virtually everything previously written about dogs is either wrong or misguided. Instead he maintains that to understand the true nature of dogs we …
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Oliver Wendell Holmes twice escaped death as a young Union officer in the Civil War when musket balls missed his heart and spinal cord by a fraction of an inch at the Battles of …
Reise zu den Grenzen der Vernunft
Nature of Horses
What makes a winning racehorse? How intelligent are horses? What are horses trying to tell us when they stamp their hooves and snort? Do horses talk to each other?The horse, long a …
Journey to the Edge of Reason
Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Godel's famous proof that every mathematical system must contain propositions that are true-yet never provable-continues to …
Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel
Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt G del's famous proof that every mathematical system must contain propositions that are true--yet never provable--continues to …