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A Natural History of Shells by Geerat J. Vermeij
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Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Princeton Science Library
From "one of the master naturalists of our time" (American Scientist), a fascinating exploration of what seashells reveal about biology, evolution, and the history of life Geerat Vermeij wrote this celebration of shells to share his enthusiasm for these supremely elegant creations and what they can ...Show more
"E": The Story of a Number by Eli Maor
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Category: Science | Series: Princeton Science Library
The interest earned on a bank account, the arrangement of seeds in a sunflower, and the shape of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis are all intimately connected with the mysterious number e. In this informal and engaging history, Eli Maor portrays the curious characters and the elegant mathematics that lie b ...Show more
Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth by Andrew H. Knoll
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Category: Special Orders | Series: Princeton Science Library
Australopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites--such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. But in the full history of life, ancient animals, even the trilobites, form only the half-billion-year tip of a nearly four-billion-year iceberg. Andrew Knoll explores the deep histor ...Show more
Life's Engines by Paul G. Falkowski
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Category: Science | Series: Princeton Science Library
For almost four billion years, microbes had the primordial oceans all to themselves. The stewards of Earth, these organisms, transformed the chemistry of our planet to make it habitable for plants, animals, and us. Paul Falkowski takes leaders deep into the microscopic world to explore how these marvelo ...Show more
The Enjoyment of Math by Hans Rademacher; Otto Toeplitz; Alex Kontorovich (Foreword by)
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Category: Science | Series: Princeton Science Library
The classic book that shares the enjoyment of mathematics with readers of all skill levelsWhat is so special about the number 30? Do the prime numbers go on forever? Are there more whole numbers than even numbers? The Enjoyment of Math explores these and other captivating problems and puzzles, introduci ...Show more
The Extreme Life of the Sea by Anthony R. Palumbi, Stephen R. Palumbi
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Category: Natural History and Environment | Series: Princeton Science Library
The ocean teems with life that thrives under difficult situations in unusual environments. The Extreme Life of the Sea takes readers to the absolute limits of the ocean world — the fastest and deepest, the hottest and oldest creatures of the oceans. It dives into the icy Arctic and boiling hydrothermal ...Show more
The Irrationals: A Story of the Numbers You Can't Count On by Julian Havil
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Category: Science | Series: Princeton Science Library
An entertaining and enlightening history of irrational numbers, from ancient Greece to the twenty-first century The ancient Greeks discovered them, but it wasn't until the nineteenth century that irrational numbers were properly understood and rigorously defined, and even today not all their mysteri ...Show more
The Mathematical Mechanic - Using Physical Reasoning to Solve Problems by Mark Levi
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Category: Science | Series: Princeton Science Library
Everybody knows that mathematics is indispensable to physics--imagine where we'd be today if Einstein and Newton didn't have the math to back up their ideas. But how many people realize that physics can be used to produce many astonishing and strikingly elegant solutions in mathematics? Mark Levi shows ...Show more
The Nature of Space and Time by Stephen Hawking
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Category: Science | Series: Princeton Science Library
Einstein said that the most incomprehensible thing about the universe is that it is comprehensible. But was he right? Can the quantum theory of fields and Einstein's general theory of relativity, the two most accurate and successful theories in all of physics, be united into a single quantum theory of g ...Show more
The Odd Quantum by Sam Treiman; Helen Quinn (Foreword by)
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Category: Science | Series: Princeton Science Library
An acclaimed physicist's accessible yet rigorous introduction to quantum mechanics for nonspecialists This is a rare and much-needed book: a concise but comprehensive account of quantum mechanics for popular science readers written by a respected physicist. Sam Treiman--who was internationally renowned ...Show more
The Pythagorean Theorem: A 4,000-Year History by Eli Maor
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Category: Science | Series: Princeton Science Library
By any measure, the Pythagorean theorem is the most famous statement in all of mathematics. In this book, Eli Maor reveals the full story of this ubiquitous geometric theorem. Maor shows that the theorem, although attributed to Pythagoras, was known to the Babylonians more than a thousand years earlier. ...Show more
The Tower and the Bridge: The New Art of Structural Engineering by David P. Billington
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Category: Science | Series: Princeton Science Library
An essential exploration of the engineering aesthetics of celebrated structures from long-span bridges to high-rise buildings What do structures such as the Eiffel Tower, the Brooklyn Bridge, and the concrete roofs of Pier Luigi Nervi have in common? According to The Tower and the Bridge, all are st ...Show more