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(0)Mario Livio
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A biography of the great astronomer and scientist, and an examination of the faith vs. science question, then and now, written by a noted astrophysicist and author"--
At present, we face enormous crises, such as the minimization of the dangers of climate change because the science behind these threats is erroneously questioned or ignored. Galileo encountered this problem 400 years ago. His discoveries contradicted the teachings of the church at...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed.
Physical Desc
x, 308 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
This fascinating exploration of the great discoveries of history's most important mathematicians seeks an answer to the eternal question: Does mathematics hold the key to understanding the mysteries of the physical world?
4) The equation that couldn't be solved: how mathematical genius discovered the language of symmetry
Author
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
x, 353 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
Physical Desc
341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Drawing on the lives of five great scientists -- Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle and Albert Einstein -- scientist/author Mario Livio shows how even the greatest scientists made major mistakes and how science built on these errors to achieve breakthroughs, especially into the evolution of life and the universe."--Publisher information.
6) What to think about machines that think: today's leading thinkers on the age of machine intelligence
Publisher
Harper Perennial
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xxvi, 541 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Collects the thoughts of almost two hundred of today's leading thinkers on the issue of artificial intelligence.