Statistical Mechanics is the study of systems where the number of interacting particles becomes infinite. In the last fifty years tremendous advances have been made which have required the invention o ... 続きを読む
Advanced Topics in Linear Algebra presents, in an engaging style, novel topics linked through the Weyr matrix canonical form, a largely unknown cousin of the Jordan canonical form discovered by Eduard ... 続きを読む
Michael Bordag; Galina Leonidovna Klimchitskaya; Umar Mohideen; Vladimir Mikhaylovich Mostepanenko
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778 ページ
フォーマット
Paperback
サイズ
153 x 234 mm
刊行日
2014年11月
シリーズ
International Series of Monographs on Physics
The subject of this book is the Casimir effect, a manifestation of zero-point oscillations of the quantum vacuum resulting in forces acting between closely spaced bodies. For the benefit of the reader ... 続きを読む
Dr. Marie Maynard Daly received her PhD in Chemistry from Columbia University in 1947. Although she was hardly the first of her race and gender to engage in the field, she was the first African Americ ... 続きを読む
This is the second of two books about African-American female chemists. The first book (African-American Women Chemists, 2011) focused on the early pioneers—women chemists from the Civil War to the Ci ... 続きを読む
Richard Tieszen presents an analysis, development, and defense of a number of central ideas in Kurt Godel's writings on the philosophy and foundations of mathematics and logic. Tieszen structures the ... 続きを読む
Richard Tieszen presents an analysis, development, and defense of a number of central ideas in Kurt Godel's writings on the philosophy and foundations of mathematics and logic. Tieszen structures the ... 続きを読む
Samir Okasha approaches evolutionary biology from a philosophical perspective in Agents and Goals in Evolution, analysing a mode of thinking in biology called agential thinking. He considers how the p ... 続きを読む
Great ideas often develop gradually after studying a problem at length-but not always. Sometimes, an insight hits like a bolt from the blue. For Archimedes, clarity struck while he was taking a bath. ... 続きを読む
John Van Wyhe; Kees Rookmaaker; David Attenborough
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352 ページ
フォーマット
Hardcover
サイズ
161 x 241 mm
刊行日
2013年10月
This volume brings together the letters of the great Victorian naturalist Alfred Russel Wallace (1823-1913) during his famous travels of 1854-62 in the Malay Archipelago (now Singapore, Malaysia, and ... 続きを読む
