ISBN: 9780691155005 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 304 Rok wydania: 2012
What are your chances of dying on your next flight, being called for jury duty, or winning the lottery? In this collection of twenty-one puzzles, Paul Nahin challenges us to think creatively about...
ISBN: 9780691218748 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 288 Rok wydania: 2021
ISBN: 9780691142890 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 184 Rok wydania: 2010
Offers a short, accessible and entertaining introduction to this area of physics.
ISBN: 9780691158211 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 288 Rok wydania: 2013
Some probability problems are so difficult that they stump the smartest mathematicians. But even the hardest of these problems can often be solved with a computer and a Monte Carlo simulation, in...
ISBN: 9780691211084 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 432 Rok wydania: 2022
ISBN: 9780691143934 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 276 Rok wydania: 2009
On the night of the 2000 presidential election, Americans watched on television as polling results divided the nation's map into red and blue states. Since then the color divide has become...
ISBN: 9780691175980 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 320 Rok wydania: 2017
Adair Turner became chairman of Britain's Financial Services Authority just as the global financial crisis struck in 2008, and he played a leading role in redesigning global financial...
ISBN: 9780691176000 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 248 Rok wydania: 2017
Boolean algebra, also called Boolean logic, is at the heart of the electronic circuitry in everything we use--from our computers and cars, to home appliances. How did a system of mathematics...
ISBN: 9780691178523 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 272 Rok wydania: 2017
Physics can explain many of the things that we commonly encounter. It can tell us why the night is dark, what causes the tides, and even how best to catch a baseball. With In Praise of Simple...
ISBN: 9780691160184 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 304 Rok wydania: 2013
When it appeared in 1670, Baruch Spinoza's Theological-Political Treatise was denounced as the most dangerous book ever published - "godless," "full of abominations," "a...
ISBN: 9780691175799 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 392 Rok wydania: 2017
The Islamic State has stunned the world with its savagery, destructiveness, and military and recruiting successes. What explains the rise of ISIS and what does it portend for the future of the...
ISBN: 9780691168364 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 224 Rok wydania: 2015
"With humor and humanity, Oxygen captures the excitement of scientific discovery and describes the amazing natural history of how Earth's oxygenated atmosphere came to be."--Ed DeLong,...
ISBN: 9780691183091 Oprawa: miękka Autor: Lewis Glinert Ilość stron: 296 Rok wydania: 2018
The Story of Hebrew explores the extraordinary hold that Hebrew has had on Jews and Christians, who have invested it with a symbolic power far beyond that of any other language in history....
ISBN: 9780691178240 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 408 Rok wydania: 2017
Democracy for Realists assails the romantic folk-theory at the heart of contemporary thinking about democratic politics and government, and offers a provocative alternative view grounded in the...
ISBN: 9780691224718 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 328 Rok wydania: 2021
ISBN: 9780691175959 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 448 Rok wydania: 2017
Most attempts to explain market failures seek to pinpoint triggering mechanisms that occur hours, days, or weeks before the collapse. Sornette proposes a radically different view: the underlying...
ISBN: 9780691239330 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 376 Rok wydania: 2024
ISBN: 9780691208602 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 320 Rok wydania: 2020
A compelling explanation of how the law shapes the distribution of wealthWhat is it that transforms a simple object, an idea, or a promise to pay into an asset that creates wealth$188 Katharina...
ISBN: 9780691205199 Oprawa: miękka Ilość stron: 120 Rok wydania: 2021
ISBN: 9780691205922 Oprawa: twarda Ilość stron: 256 Rok wydania: 2022