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Our universe has multiple origin stories, from religious creation myths to the Big Bang of scientists. But if we leave those behind and start from nothing-no matter, no cosmos, not even empty space-could we create a universe using only math? Irreverent, richly illustrated, and boundlessly creative, The Big Bang of Numbers invites us to try. In this new mathematical origin story, mathematician and novelist Manil Suri creates a natural progression of ideas needed to design our world, starting with...

Dokumentation über Grundlagen und neueste Erkenntnisse über die Konstitution des Eisens und seiner Legierungen. Ziel ist es, Konstitution und Magnetismus des Eisens miteinander zu verknüpfen.

Der Umfang des Beobachtungsmaterials oder die Kompli- ziertheit des statistischen Problems verweisen den empirisch arbeitenden Wissenschaftler, aber auch den Studenten im fortgeschrittenen Semester, haufig auf die Verwendung von elektronischen Datenverarbeitungs- anlagen. Das vorliegende Skriptum, das sich haupt- sachlich an Medizinstudenten des zweiten Studienab- schnittes, an Doktoranden der Medizin und an inter- essierte Mediziner richtet, solI den Anfanger mit dem Gebrauch der leicht erlernb...

Syndicated columnist Paul Hoffman provides an acclaimed account of the world of modern mathematicians in the bestselling tradition of accessible scientists Stephen Jay Gould and Tracey Kidder. An extremely clever account.--The New Yorker.

Most people now realise that economic growth, however desirable, will not solve all our problems. Instead, we need a philosophy and a science which encompasses a much fuller range of human need and experience. This book argues that the goal for a society must be the greatest possible all round happiness, and shows how each of us can become more effective creators of happiness, both as citizens and in our own organisations. Written with Richard Layard's characteristic clarity, it provides hard...

Dynamics Reported is a series of books dedicated to the exposition of the mathematics of dynamcial systems. Its aim is to make the recent research accessible to advanced students and younger researchers. The series is also a medium for mathematicians to use to keep up-to-date with the work being done in neighboring fields. The style is best described as expository, but complete. Thus, there is an emphasis on examples and explanations, but also theorems normally occur with their proofs. The focus...

A non-mathematician explores mathematical terrain, reporting accessibly and engagingly on topics from Sudoku to probability. Brian Hayes wants to convince us that mathematics is too important and too much fun to be left to the mathematicians. Foolproof, and Other Mathematical Meditations is his entertaining and accessible exploration of mathematical terrain both far-flung and nearby, bringing readers tidings of mathematical topics from Markov chains to Sudoku. Hayes, a non-mathematician, argues...

This is the sixth and last of the books that form the core of the Bourbaki series, comprising chapters 1-6 in English translation. One striking feature is its exposition of abstract harmonic analysis and the structure of locally compact Abelian groups. This English edition corrects misprints, updates references, and revises the definition of the concept of measurable equivalence relations.