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  • 1 + 1 non fa (sempre) 2

    Una lezione di matematica

    Series series Intersezioni
    Tutti i sistemi di numerazione del mondo, insieme a molte altre straordinarie costruzioni scientifiche e tecniche, poggiano su quello che comincia addizionando uno a uno. 1+1 = 2, che cosa c'è di più semplice? Si tratta della prima formula che tutti incontriamo a scuola, ma anche del primo paradosso della mente: quanto fa una pera più una mela? A che cosa è uguale? In una carrellata fantastica, ... Leer más

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  • The Infinite Book

    A Short Guide to the Boundless, Timeless and Endless

    For a thousand years, infinity has proven to be a difficult and illuminating challenge for mathematicians and theologians. It certainly is the strangest idea that humans have ever thought. Where did it come from and what is it telling us about our Universe? Can there actually be infinities? Is matter infinitely divisible into ever-smaller pieces? But infinity is also the place where things happen ... Leer más

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  • 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know

    Math Explains Your World

    “Where else does math become a romp, full of entertaining tricks and turns?”—Bryce Christensen, BooklistHave you ever considered why you always get stuck in the longest line? Why two’s company but three’s a crowd? Or why there are six degrees of separation instead of seven? In this hugely informative and endlessly entertaining book, John D. Barrow takes the most baffling of everyday phenomena and ... Leer más

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  • The Book of Nothing

    Vacuums, Voids, and the Latest Ideas about the Origins of the Universe

    What conceptual blind spot kept the ancient Greeks (unlike the Indians and Maya) from developing a concept of zero? Why did St. Augustine equate nothingness with the Devil? What tortuous means did 17th-century scientists employ in their attempts to create a vacuum? And why do contemporary quantum physicists believe that the void is actually seething with subatomic activity? You’ll find the answers ... Leer más

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  • The Philosophy of Cosmology

    Following a long-term international collaboration between leaders in cosmology and the philosophy of science, this volume addresses foundational questions at the limit of science across these disciplines, questions raised by observational and theoretical progress in modern cosmology. Space missions have mapped the Universe up to its early instants, opening up questions on what came before the Big ... Leer más

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  • 100 Essential Things You Didn't Know You Didn't Know about Math and the Arts

    An entertaining and illuminating collection of 100 surprising connections between math and the arts.At first glance, the worlds of math and the arts might not seem like comfortable neighbors. But as mathematician John D. Barrow points out, they have a strong and natural affinity—after all, math is the study of all patterns, and the world of the arts is rich with pattern. Barrow whisks us through ... Leer más

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  • Mathletics

    100 Amazing Things You Didn't Know about the World of Sports

    An entertaining, eye-opening guide to what math and physics can reveal about sports.How can sprinter Usain Bolt break his world record without expending any additional effort? What dates of birth give rise to the best professional athletes? Is it better to have the inside or outside lane during a race?Drawing on vivid, real-life examples, mathematician John D. Barrow entertainingly explores the ... Leer más

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  • Water and Life

    The Unique Properties of H2O

    Reflecting a rich technical and interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, Water and Life: The Unique Properties of H20 focuses on the properties of water and its interaction with life. The book develops a variety of approaches that help to illuminate ways in which to address deeper questions with respect to the nature of the universe and our place withi ... Leer más

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  • The Origin Of The Universe

    Science Masters Series

    de John D Barrow ...
    There is no more profound, enduring or fascinating question in all of science than that of how time, space, and matter began. Now John Barrow, who has been at the cutting edge of research in this area and has written extensively about it, guides us on a journey to the beginning of time, into a world of temperatures and densities so high that we cannot recreate them in a laboratory. With new ... Leer más

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    The Origin of the Universe

    Narrado por John Curless ...
    Series series Science Masters

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    4 hora 8 minutos

    There is no more profound, enduring or fascinating question in all of science than that of how time, space, and matter began. Now John Barrow, who has been at the cutting edge of research in this area and has written extensively about it, guides us on a journey to the beginning of time, into a world of temperatures and densities so high that we cannot recreate them in a laboratory. With new ... Leer más

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  • Maniac

    Quando alla fine della seconda guerra mondiale John von Neumann concepisce il maniac – un calcolatore universale che doveva, nelle intenzioni del suo creatore, «afferrare la scienza alla gola scatenando un potere di calcolo illimitato» –, sono in pochi a rendersi conto che il mondo sta per cambiare per sempre. Perché quel congegno rivoluzionario – parto di una mente ordinatrice a un tempo cinica e ... Leer más

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