A high-quality facsimile reproduction of Da Vinci's most significant scientific texts, which will be of interest to both scholars and art enthusiasts
Provides the first serious reconstruction of ... Read more
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This book celebrates the quatercentenary of the birth of Thomas Willis on 27 January 1621. As a physician in Oxford, Willis's work in the 1650s provides an example of rural medical practice in early m ... Read more
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Accessible and entertaining style
Insightful overview to appeal to lay-readers and maths-lovers alike
Includes entertaining illustrations, photos and drawings (some by famous cartoonists)
Dev ... Read more
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Category theory emerged in the 1940s in the work of Samuel Eilenberg and Saunders Mac Lane. It describes relationships between mathematical structures. Outside of pure mathematics, category theory is ... Read more
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Category theory emerged in the 1940s in the work of Samuel Eilenberg and Saunders Mac Lane. It describes relationships between mathematical structures. Outside of pure mathematics, category theory is ... Read more
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This book presents the topology of smooth 4-manifolds in an intuitive self-contained way, developed over a number of years by Professor Akbulut. The text is aimed at graduate students and focuses on t ... Read more
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Foreword by Dara O Briain, comedian and presenter of TV shows such as School of Hard Sums, Dara O Briain's Science Club and Stargazing Live
Celebrates 50 years of the Institute of Mathematics and ... Read more
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The world around us is saturated with numbers. They are a fundamental pillar of our modern society, and accepted and used with hardly a second thought. But how did this state of affairs come to be? In ... Read more
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Nicholas Brokaw; Todd Crowl; Ariel E. Lugo; William McDowell; Frederick Scatena; Robert B. Waide; Michael R. Willig
Pages
496 Pages
Format
Hardcover
Size
163 x 240 mm
Pub date
Jun 2012
Global change threatens ecosystems worldwide, and tropical systems with their high diversity and rapid development are of special concern. We can mitigate the impacts of change if we understand how t ... Read more
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This advanced undergraduate text introduces Einstein's general theory of relativity. The topics covered include geometric formulation of special relativity, the principle of equivalence, Einstein's fi ... Read more
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