History of Science - Page 22

Trigonometric Delights

Trigonometry has a reputation as a dry, difficult branch of mathematics, a glorified form of geometr...

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The Pandemic Century: One Hundred Years of Panic, Hysteria and Hubris

A Mail on Sunday 2019 Summer Book PickA Financial Times 2019 Book of the YearEver since the 1918 Spa...

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The Secret Formula: How a Mathematical Duel Inflamed Renaissance Italy and Uncovered the Cubic Equation

The Secret Formula tells the story of two Renaissance mathematicians whose jealousies, intrigues, an...

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The Alchemy of Us: How Humans and Matter Transformed One Another

In the bestselling tradition of Stuff Matters and The Disappearing Spoon: a clever and engaging look...

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How to Find a Higgs Boson-and Other Big Mysteries in the World of the Very Small

The history of particle physics, the hunt for the most elusive particle, and the fundamental questio...

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Thermodynamic Weirdness: From Fahrenheit to Clausius

An account of the concepts and intellectual structure of classical thermodynamics that reveals the s...

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Gods and Robots: Myths, Machines, and Ancient Dreams of Technology

The fascinating untold story of how the ancients imagined robots and other forms of artificial life—...

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Epidemics and Society: From the Black Death to the Present (With a New Preface)

A “brilliant and sobering” (Paul Kennedy, Wall Street Journal) look at the history and human costs o...

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Music by the Numbers: From Pythagoras to Schoenberg

Music is filled with mathematical elements. The works of Bach are often said to possess a math-like...

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Block by Block: The Historical and Theoretical Foundations of Thermodynamics

At the heart of many fields - physics, chemistry, engineering - lays thermodynamics. While this scie...

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The Road to Conscious Machines: The Story of AI

'A terrific book - essential reading for everyone seeking to make sense of Artificial Intelligence.'...

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The Scottish Book: Mathematics from The Scottish Cafe, with Selected Problems from The New Scottish Book

The second edition of this book updates and expands upon a historically important collection of math...

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The Evolution of Knowledge: Rethinking Science for the Anthropocene

This book presents a new way of thinking about the history of science and technology, one that offer...

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The Great Paradox of Science: Why Its Conclusions Can Be Relied Upon Even Though They Cannot Be Proven

Science has revolutionized our lives and continues to show inexorable progress today. It may seem ob...

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Axiomatic Approach to Geometry: Geometric Trilogy I

Focusing methodologically on those historical aspects that are relevant to supporting intuition in a...

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