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  • MATHEMATICS
    JAMES D STEIN / STEIN JAMES D
    This book tells the stories of some of the great quests of mathematics, such as the centuries-long pursuit for the proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem. These quests are searches for difficult-to-discover universal truths, pursued with passion not only by mathematicians and scientists, but by kings, emperors and even Jean-Luc Picard, the captain of Star Trek’s Starship Enterprise. So...
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    31,86 €

  • SEDUCED BY MATHEMATICS
    JAMES D STEIN / STEIN JAMES D
    Seduction is not just an end result, but a process - and in mathematics, both the end results and the process by which those end results are achieved are often charming and elegant.This helps to explain why so many people - not just those for whom math plays a key role in their day-to-day lives - have found mathematics so seductive. Math is unique among all subjects in that it ...
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    31,65 €

  • FATE OF SCHRODINGER’S CAT, THE
    JAMES D STEIN / STEIN JAMES D
    Can we correctly predict the flip of a fair coin more than half the time — or the decay of a single radioactive atom? Our intuition, based on a lifetime of experience, tells us that we cannot, as these are classic examples of what are known to be 50–50 guesses.But mathematics is filled with counterintuitive results — and this book discusses some surprising and entertaining exam...
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    31,91 €