Название: Celestial Tapestry: The Warp and Weft of Art and Mathematics
Автор: Nicholas Mee
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 13 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Artists and scientists view the world in quite different ways. Nevertheless, they are united in a search for hidden order beneath surface appearances. The quest for eternal geometrical designs is also seen in the sacred mathematical patterns created by the world's great religions. Tibetan monks fashion chalk mandalas representing the emergence of order in the universe. Moslem architects wrap their buildings in elaborate abstract tessellating designs.

Название: How It Works Amazing Technology Nineteenth Edition
Автор: Editors
Год выхода: 2022
Страниц: 132
Формат: True PDF
Качество: высокое
Язык: английский / English
Размер: 50,5 MB

Find out all about the most amazing examples of technology in the How It Works Amazing Technology, from the mind-boggling capabilities of futuristic gadgets, to dissecting the inner working of our everyday objects.

Название: Neutron Stars: The Quest to Understand the Zombies of the Cosmos
Автор: Katia Moskvitch
Издательство: Harvard University Press
Год: 2020
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 52 Мб
Язык: английский / English

The astonishing science of neutron stars and the stories of the scientists who study them. Neutron stars are as bewildering as they are elusive. The remnants of exploded stellar giants, they are tiny, merely twenty kilometers across, and incredibly dense. One teaspoon of a neutron star would weigh several million tons. They can spin up to a thousand times per second, they possess the strongest magnetic fields known in nature, and they may be the source of the most powerful explosions in the universe. Through vivid storytelling and on-site reporting from observatories all over the world, Neutron Stars offers an engaging account of these still-mysterious objects.

Название: The Fractalist: Memoir of a Scientific Maverick
Автор: Benoit Mandelbrot
Издательство: Vintage
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 11 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Here is the remarkable life story of Benoit Mandelbrot, the creator of fractal geometry, and his unparalleled contributions to science mathematics, the financial world, and the arts. Mandelbrot recounts his early years in Warsaw and in Paris, where he was mentored by an eminent mathematician uncle, through his days evading the Nazis in occupied France, to his education at Caltech, Princeton, and MIT, and his illustrious career at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center. An outside to mainstream scientific research, he managed to do what others had thought impossible: develop a new geometry that combines revelatory beauty with a radical way of unfolding formerly hidden scientific laws. In the process he was able to use geometry to solve fresh, real-world problems.

Автор: Джеральд Р. Роутледж, Клейтон Валнум
Название: Ваш персональный компьютер. Ссерия «Без проблем!»
Издательство: М:, Знание
Год: 1996
Страниц: 352
Формат: DJVU, PDF
Размер: 81 МБ

Книга содержит достаточно полные сведения для тех, кто хочет приобрести или расширить возможности своего ПК. Приводятся сведения о самых современных аппаратных и программных средствах. Легко читается, доступна даже для тех, кто имеет минимальный опыт работы на ПК.

Автор: Грановский В. Л.
Название: Новые пути получения электрической энергии. Новое в жизни, науке, технике
Издательство: М:, Знание
Год: 1961
Страниц: 48
Формат: DJVU, PDF
Размер: 13 МБ

В настоящей брошюре рассматриваются физические основы принятых в настоящее время способов массового производства электроэнергии и тех способов, которые могут их дополнить или, может быть, даже заменить.

Название: Origins of Form: The Shape of Natural and Man-made Things
Автор: Christopher Williams
Издательство: Architectural Book Publishing
Год: 2013
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 21 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Origins of Form is about the shape of things. What limits the height of a tree? Why is a large ship or office building more efficient than a small one? What is the similarity between a human rib cage and an airplane or a bison and a cantilevered bridge? How might we plan for things to improve as they are used instead of wearing out? The author has chosen eight criteria that constitute the major influences on three-dimensional form. These criteria comprise the eight chapters of the book: each looks at form from entirely different viewpoints. The products of both nature and man are examined and compared.

Название: Pseudoscience: The Conspiracy Against Science
Автор: Allison B. Kaufman, James C. Kaufman
Издательство: The MIT Press
Год: 2019
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 11 Мб
Язык: английский / English

Case studies, personal accounts, and analysis show how to recognize and combat pseudoscience in a post-truth world. In a post-truth, fake news world, we are particularly susceptible to the claims of pseudoscience. When emotions and opinions are more widely disseminated than scientific findings, and self-proclaimed experts get their expertise from Google, how can the average person distinguish real science from fake? This book examines pseudoscience from a variety of perspectives, through case studies, analysis, and personal accounts that show how to recognize pseudoscience, why it is so widely accepted, and how to advocate for real science. Contributors examine the basics of pseudoscience, including issues of cognitive bias; the costs of pseudoscience, with accounts of naturopathy and logical fallacies in the anti-vaccination movement; perceptions of scientific soundness; the mainstream presence of "integrative medicine," hypnosis, and parapsychology; and the use of case studies and new media in science advocacy.

Название: Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything
Автор: Philip Ball
Издательство: University of Chicago Press
Год: 2014
Формат: EPUB
Размер: 12 Мб
Язык: английский / English

With the recent landing of the Mars rover Curiosity, it seems safe to assume that the idea of being curious is alive and well in modern science—that it’s not merely encouraged but is seen as an essential component of the scientific mission. Yet there was a time when curiosity was condemned. Neither Pandora nor Eve could resist the dangerous allure of unanswered questions, and all knowledge wasn’t equal—for millennia it was believed that there were some things we should not try to know. In the late sixteenth century this attitude began to change dramatically, and in Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything, Philip Ball investigates how curiosity first became sanctioned—when it changed from a vice to a virtue and how it became permissible to ask any and every question about the world.

Название: Norse mythology: a guide to the Gods, heroes, rituals, and beliefs
Автор: John Lindow
Издательство: Oxford University Press
Год:2002
Формат: pdf
Страниц: 383
Размер: 11,22 МБ
Язык: english

Norse Mythology explores the magical myths and legends of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Iceland and Viking-Age Greenland and outlines the way the prehistoric tales and beliefs from these regions that have remained embedded in the imagination of the world.