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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's Engines by Paul G. Falkowski
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Category: Science | Series: Princeton Science Library
For almost four billion years, microbes had the primordial oceans all to themselves. The stewards of Earth, these organisms, transformed the chemistry of our planet to make it habitable for plants, animals, and us. Paul Falkowski takes leaders deep into the microscopic world to explore how these marvelo ...Show more
The Enjoyment of Math by Hans Rademacher; Otto Toeplitz; Alex Kontorovich (Foreword by)
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Category: Science | Series: Princeton Science Library
The classic book that shares the enjoyment of mathematics with readers of all skill levelsWhat is so special about the number 30? Do the prime numbers go on forever? Are there more whole numbers than even numbers? The Enjoyment of Math explores these and other captivating problems and puzzles, introduci ...Show more
The Extreme Life of the Sea by Anthony R. Palumbi, Stephen R. Palumbi
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Category: Science | Series: Princeton Science Library
The ocean teems with life that thrives under difficult situations in unusual environments. The Extreme Life of the Sea takes readers to the absolute limits of the ocean world — the fastest and deepest, the hottest and oldest creatures of the oceans. It dives into the icy Arctic and boiling hydrothermal ...Show more
The Irrationals: A Story of the Numbers You Can't Count On by Julian Havil
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Category: Science | Series: Princeton Science Library
An entertaining and enlightening history of irrational numbers, from ancient Greece to the twenty-first century The ancient Greeks discovered them, but it wasn't until the nineteenth century that irrational numbers were properly understood and rigorously defined, and even today not all their mysteri ...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
When Least Is Best - How Mathematicians Discovered Many Clever Ways to Make Things As Small (or As Large) As Possible by Paul J. Nahin
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Category: Science | Series: Princeton Science Library
What is the best way to photograph a speeding bullet? Why does light move through glass in the least amount of time possible? How can lost hikers find their way out of a forest? What will rainbows look like in the future? Why do soap bubbles have a shape that gives them the least area? By combining the ...Show more
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