Enigmas of Chance
Author: Mark Kac
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780520059863
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Enigmas of Chance
Author: Mark Kac
Publisher:
Published: 1985
Total Pages: 163
ISBN-13: 9780465019816
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis autobiography covers the life of Mark Kac, the Polish mathematician known best for his interest in probability theory. His question, "Can you hear the shape of a drum?"set the stage for research into spectral theory.
Of Tales and Enigmas
Author: Minsoo Kang
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
Published: 2006-08-01
Total Pages: 222
ISBN-13: 0809557967
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA beautiful lady who can only be seen from far away, a machine that generates an entire civilization, a king who loves the hidden life of an inanimate statue, a city that appears once a year across a great chasm, an ancient Korean king assassinated in the dark of the night, a ghost that haunts soldiers on the DMZ - these are just some of the marvels you will encounter in these stories from the transcultural and metafictional imagination of Minsoo Kang. In diverse narratives grouped under the titles of Tales from a Lost History, Fables of the Dream World, and Stories from an Imaginary Homeland, Kang explores the nature and possibilities of storytelling itself as he spins out variations on an episodic theme, reinterprets an old myth, and struggles with a past that seeks a voice in the present. The result is a marvelously surrealistic landscape where histories, ideas, and legends freely intermingle and dance to the music of wonder and longing.
Kolmogorov in Perspective
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Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 0821829181
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe editorial board for the History of Mathematics series has selected for this volume a series of translations from two Russian publications, Kolmogorov in Remembrance and Mathematics and its Historical Development. This book, Kolmogorov in Perspective, includes articles written by Kolmogorov's students and colleagues and his personal accounts of shared experiences and lifelong mathematical friendships. The articles combine to give an excellent personal and scientific biography of this important mathematician. There is also an extensive bibliography with the complete list of Kolmogorov's work.
Astronomical Enigmas
Author: Mark Kidger
Publisher: JHU Press
Published: 2005-07-08
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9780801880261
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAstronomer Kidger has spent his career helping the general public understand the nature of the universe and astronomy. In "Astronomical Enigmas," he offers answers to the questions he is asked most frequently.
Perón and the Enigmas of Argentina
Author: Robert D. Crassweller
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1987
Total Pages: 452
ISBN-13: 9780393305432
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe author succeeds admirably in defining and describing the complex phenomenon known as Peronism, as well as the distinctive ethos from which it sprang. He also provides a concise history of Argentina, a biography of Juan Peron (and his comparably mythic wife Evita) and in a postscript reviews events in Argentina since Peron's death in 1974....Crassweller brings Peron into clear focus.
Enigmas
Author: Emily Joan Ward
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2022-08-18
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1009232533
DOWNLOAD EBOOKArising from the 2020 Darwin College Lectures, this book presents eight essays from prominent public intellectuals on the theme of Enigmas. Each author examines this theme through the lens of their own particular area of expertise, together constituting an illuminating and diverse interdisciplinary volume. Enigmas features contributions by professor of physics Sean M. Carroll, author Jo Marchant, writer and broadcaster Adam Rutherford, professor of earth sciences Tamsin A. Mather, professor of the history of the book Erik Kwakkel, reader in cultural history Tiffany Watt Smith, mathematician and public speaker James Grime, assistant professor of positive AI J. Derek Lomas, and explorer Albert Y.- M. Lin. This volume will appeal to anyone fascinated by puzzles and mysteries, solved and unsolved.
Chaos and Order
Author: N. Katherine Hayles
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2014-12-10
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 022623004X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe scientific discovery that chaotic systems embody deep structures of order is one of such wide-ranging implications that it has attracted attention across a spectrum of disciplines, including the humanities. In this volume, fourteen theorists explore the significance for literary and cultural studies of the new paradigm of chaotics, forging connections between contemporary literature and the science of chaos. They examine how changing ideas of order and disorder enable new readings of scientific and literary texts, from Newton's Principia to Ruskin's autobiography, from Victorian serial fiction to Borges's short stories. N. Katherine Hayles traces shifts in meaning that chaos has undergone within the Western tradition, suggesting that the science of chaos articulates categories that cannot be assimilated into the traditional dichotomy of order and disorder. She and her contributors take the relation between order and disorder as a theme and develop its implications for understanding texts, metaphors, metafiction, audience response, and the process of interpretation itself. Their innovative and diverse work opens the interdisciplinary field of chaotics to literary inquiry.
Enigmas
Author: Mario Perniola
Publisher: Verso
Published: 1995-07-17
Total Pages: 172
ISBN-13: 9781859840610
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"What do we fear most? Repetition or difference? The return of a barbarism that is remote and prehistoric or the advent of a barbarism that is technological as post-human?"
