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Book Synopsis The Weil Conjectures by : Karen Olsson
Download or read book The Weil Conjectures written by Karen Olsson and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2019-07-16 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Editors' Pick and Paris Review Staff Pick "A wonderful book." --Patti Smith "I was riveted. Olsson is evocative on curiosity as an appetite of the mind, on the pleasure of glutting oneself on knowledge." --Parul Sehgal, The New York Times An eloquent blend of memoir and biography exploring the Weil siblings, math, and creative inspiration Karen Olsson’s stirring and unusual third book, The Weil Conjectures, tells the story of the brilliant Weil siblings—Simone, a philosopher, mystic, and social activist, and André, an influential mathematician—while also recalling the years Olsson spent studying math. As she delves into the lives of these two singular French thinkers, she grapples with their intellectual obsessions and rekindles one of her own. For Olsson, as a math major in college and a writer now, it’s the odd detours that lead to discovery, to moments of insight. Thus The Weil Conjectures—an elegant blend of biography and memoir and a meditation on the creative life. Personal, revealing, and approachable, The Weil Conjectures eloquently explores math as it relates to intellectual history, and shows how sometimes the most inexplicable pursuits turn out to be the most rewarding.
Book Synopsis The Poincare Conjecture by : Donal O'Shea
Download or read book The Poincare Conjecture written by Donal O'Shea and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2009-05-26 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Henri Poincaré was one of the greatest mathematicians of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. He revolutionized the field of topology, which studies properties of geometric configurations that are unchanged by stretching or twisting. The Poincaré conjecture lies at the heart of modern geometry and topology, and even pertains to the possible shape of the universe. The conjecture states that there is only one shape possible for a finite universe in which every loop can be contracted to a single point. Poincaré's conjecture is one of the seven "millennium problems" that bring a one-million-dollar award for a solution. Grigory Perelman, a Russian mathematician, has offered a proof that is likely to win the Fields Medal, the mathematical equivalent of a Nobel prize, in August 2006. He also will almost certainly share a Clay Institute millennium award. In telling the vibrant story of The Poincaré Conjecture, Donal O'Shea makes accessible to general readers for the first time the meaning of the conjecture, and brings alive the field of mathematics and the achievements of generations of mathematicians whose work have led to Perelman's proof of this famous conjecture.
Book Synopsis If Research Were Romance and other implausible conjectures by : Manny Rayner
Download or read book If Research Were Romance and other implausible conjectures written by Manny Rayner and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-04 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why is Fifty Shades of Grey like the Higgs boson? Who would Kristen Stewart play in a movie of Ulysses? Is the answer 42? Would Jane Eyre prefer Hamlet or Claudius? And is research really like romance? You will find the answers to all the above questions, and many others, in this book
Book Synopsis The Science of Conjecture by : James Franklin
Download or read book The Science of Conjecture written by James Franklin and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2015-08-01 with total page 767 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did we make reliable predictions before Pascal and Fermat's discovery of the mathematics of probability in 1654? What methods in law, science, commerce, philosophy, and logic helped us to get at the truth in cases where certainty was not attainable? In The Science of Conjecture, James Franklin examines how judges, witch inquisitors, and juries evaluated evidence; how scientists weighed reasons for and against scientific theories; and how merchants counted shipwrecks to determine insurance rates. The Science of Conjecture provides a history of rational methods of dealing with uncertainty and explores the coming to consciousness of the human understanding of risk.
Book Synopsis Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century; by : John Nichols
Download or read book Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century; written by John Nichols and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 898 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander by : Thomas Merton
Download or read book Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander written by Thomas Merton and published by Image. This book was released on 2009-11-17 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this series of notes, opinions, experiences, and reflections, Thomas Merton examines some of the most urgent questions of our age. With his characteristic forcefulness and candor, he brings the reader face-to-face with such provocative and controversial issues as the “death of God,” politics, modern life and values, and racial strife–issues that are as relevant today as they were fifty years ago. Conjectures of a Guilty Bystander is Merton at his best–detached but not unpassionate, humorous yet sensitive, at all times alive and searching, with a gift for language which has made him one of the most widely read and influential spiritual writers of our time.
Book Synopsis Literary Anecdotes Of The Eighteenth Century; Comprizing Biographical Memoirs Of William Bowyer ... And Many Of His Learned Friends by : John Nichols
Download or read book Literary Anecdotes Of The Eighteenth Century; Comprizing Biographical Memoirs Of William Bowyer ... And Many Of His Learned Friends written by John Nichols and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 742 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century; Comprising Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer ... by : John Nichols (F.S.A., Printer.)
Download or read book Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century; Comprising Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer ... written by John Nichols (F.S.A., Printer.) and published by . This book was released on 1814 with total page 812 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century; Comprizing Biographical Memoirs of William Bowyer ... an Incidental View of the Progress and Advancement of Literature in this Kingdom During Thelast Century; and Biographical Anecdotes of a Considerable Number of Eminent Writers and Ingenious Artist; with a Very Copious Index. By John Nichols ... In Six Volumes. Volume 1. [- 9.] by :
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Book Synopsis Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century by : John Nichols
Download or read book Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century written by John Nichols and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-08-28 with total page 809 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This nine-volume work, published 1812-15, provides biographical notes on publishers, writers and artists of the eighteenth century.
Book Synopsis Anecdotes of Polite Literature ... by :
Download or read book Anecdotes of Polite Literature ... written by and published by . This book was released on 1764 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: pt. 1. Index to vols. 1-6. pt. 2. Index to vols. 8-9 by : John Nichols
Download or read book Literary Anecdotes of the Eighteenth Century: pt. 1. Index to vols. 1-6. pt. 2. Index to vols. 8-9 written by John Nichols and published by . This book was released on 1813 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis “The” Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803 by : William Cobbett
Download or read book “The” Parliamentary History of England from the Earliest Period to the Year 1803 written by William Cobbett and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 748 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Associate Professor Akira Takatsuki's Conjecture, Vol. 3 (light novel) by : Mikage Sawamura
Download or read book Associate Professor Akira Takatsuki's Conjecture, Vol. 3 (light novel) written by Mikage Sawamura and published by Yen Press LLC. This book was released on 2024-02-20 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CURSES...BLESSINGS... TWO SIDES OF THE SAME COIN. A new string of mysteries begins with Naoya’s classmate Nanba discovering a chain letter in his schoolbag. Unusually excited by the occult opportunity, Professor Takatsuki gleefully invites the burden of the chain letter onto himself! Meanwhile, an urban legend about a library spirit has been making the rounds. When Professor Takatsuki and Naoya take the case, they learn about a string of clues hidden within specific library books that will come together to reveal a secret message! But according to rumor, anyone who solves this cipher will fall victim to a curse...Later, the two make their way to the countryside to investigate the legend of a demon god worshipped in a rural village. But when an actual skull turns up in the cave said to house the demon’s remains, it doesn’t take long for the situation to spiral out of control...
Book Synopsis The Second Kind of Impossible by : Paul Steinhardt
Download or read book The Second Kind of Impossible written by Paul Steinhardt and published by Simon & Schuster. This book was released on 2020-01-07 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: *Shortlisted for the 2019 Royal Society Insight Investment Science Book Prize* One of the most fascinating scientific detective stories of the last fifty years, an exciting quest for a new form of matter. “A riveting tale of derring-do” (Nature), this book reads like James Gleick’s Chaos combined with an Indiana Jones adventure. When leading Princeton physicist Paul Steinhardt began working in the 1980s, scientists thought they knew all the conceivable forms of matter. The Second Kind of Impossible is the story of Steinhardt’s thirty-five-year-long quest to challenge conventional wisdom. It begins with a curious geometric pattern that inspires two theoretical physicists to propose a radically new type of matter—one that raises the possibility of new materials with never before seen properties, but that violates laws set in stone for centuries. Steinhardt dubs this new form of matter “quasicrystal.” The rest of the scientific community calls it simply impossible. The Second Kind of Impossible captures Steinhardt’s scientific odyssey as it unfolds over decades, first to prove viability, and then to pursue his wildest conjecture—that nature made quasicrystals long before humans discovered them. Along the way, his team encounters clandestine collectors, corrupt scientists, secret diaries, international smugglers, and KGB agents. Their quest culminates in a daring expedition to a distant corner of the Earth, in pursuit of tiny fragments of a meteorite forged at the birth of the solar system. Steinhardt’s discoveries chart a new direction in science. They not only change our ideas about patterns and matter, but also reveal new truths about the processes that shaped our solar system. The underlying science is important, simple, and beautiful—and Steinhardt’s firsthand account is “packed with discovery, disappointment, exhilaration, and persistence...This book is a front-row seat to history as it is made” (Nature).
Book Synopsis Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England from the Norman Conquest in 1066, to the Year 1803, from which Last-mentioned Epoch it is Continued Downwards in the Work Entitled, "Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates" ... by : Great Britain. Parliament
Download or read book Cobbett's Parliamentary History of England from the Norman Conquest in 1066, to the Year 1803, from which Last-mentioned Epoch it is Continued Downwards in the Work Entitled, "Cobbett's Parliamentary Debates" ... written by Great Britain. Parliament and published by . This book was released on 1816 with total page 734 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music by : Ted Gioia
Download or read book Delta Blues: The Life and Times of the Mississippi Masters Who Revolutionized American Music written by Ted Gioia and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2009-11-02 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The essential history of this distinctly American genre.”—Atlanta Journal-Constitution In this “expertly researched, elegantly written, dispassionate yet thoughtful history” (Gary Giddins), award-winning author Ted Gioia gives us “the rare combination of a tome that is both deeply informative and enjoyable to read” (Publishers Weekly, starred review). From the field hollers of nineteenth-century plantations to Muddy Waters and B.B. King, Delta Blues delves into the uneasy mix of race and money at the point where traditional music became commercial and bluesmen found new audiences of thousands. Combining extensive fieldwork, archival research, interviews with living musicians, and first-person accounts with “his own calm, argument-closing incantations to draw a line through a century of Delta blues” (New York Times), this engrossing narrative is flavored with insightful and vivid musical descriptions that ensure “an understanding of not only the musicians, but the music itself” (Boston Sunday Globe). Rooted in the thick-as-tar Delta soil, Delta Blues is already “a contemporary classic in its field” (Jazz Review).