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Euler's Gem - The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology by David S. Richeson (Preface by)
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Category: Science | Series: Princeton Science Library
How a simple equation reshaped mathematics Leonhard Euler's polyhedron formula describes the structure of many objects--from soccer balls and gemstones to Buckminster Fuller's buildings and giant all-carbon molecules. Yet Euler's theorem is so simple it can be explained to a child. From ancient Greek ge ...Show more
Hands by Russell H. John Russell; Tuttle Napier
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Category: Nature | Series: Princeton Science Library
It's About Time: Understanding Einstein's Relativity by N. David Mermin
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Category: Science | Series: Princeton Science Library
A readable and entertaining look at how Einstein's special theory of relativity gives us a new understanding of the nature of time Relativity ought to be an important part of everyone's education. Its subject is time, with which we all think we are familiar. Einstein's special theory of relativity revea ...Show more
Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth by Andrew H Knoll
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Category: Science | Series: Princeton Science Library
Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites--such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. But in the full history of life, ancient animals, even the trilobites, form only the half-billion-year tip of a nearly four-billion-year iceberg. Andrew Knoll explores the deep histor ...Show more
Primates and Philosophers: How Morality Evolved by Frans B. M. De Waal
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Category: Science | Series: Princeton Science Library
Can virtuous behavior be explained by nature, and not by human rational choice? "It's the animal in us," we often hear when we've been bad. But why not when we're good? Primates and Philosophers tackles this question by exploring the biological foundations of one of humanity's most valued traits: morali ...Show more
QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter by Richard P. Feynman
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Category: Science | Series: Princeton Science Library
Celebrated for his brilliantly quirky insights into the physical world, Nobel laureate Richard Feynman also possessed an extraordinary talent for explaining difficult concepts to the general public. Here Feynman provides a classic and definitive introduction to QED (namely, quantum electrodynamics), tha ...Show more
The Extravagant Universe: Exploding Stars, Dark Energy, and the Accelerating Cosmos by Robert P. Kirshner (Epilogue by)
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Category: Science | Series: Princeton Science Library
The Extravagant Universe tells the story of a remarkable adventure of scientific discovery. One of the world's leading astronomers, Robert Kirshner, takes readers inside a lively research team on the quest that led them to an extraordinary cosmological discovery: the expansion of the universe is acceler ...Show more
The Meaning of Relativity - Including the Relativistic Theory of the Non-Symmetric Field by Albert Einstein; Brian Greene (Introduction by)
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Category: Science | Series: Princeton Science Library
In 1921, five years after the appearance of his comprehensive paper on general relativity and twelve years before he left Europe permanently to join the Institute for Advanced Study, Albert Einstein visited Princeton University, where he delivered the Stafford Little Lectures for that year. These four l ...Show more
The Nature of Space and Time by Stephen Hawking
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Category: Science | Series: Princeton Science Library
Einstein said that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. But was he right? Can the quantum theory of fields and Einstein's general theory of relativity, the two most accurate and successful theories in all of physics, be united into a single quantum theory of g ...Show more
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