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A vibrant account of how measurement has invisibly shaped our world, from ancient civilizations to the modern day.
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- Duración: 11 h y 25 m
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For at least 20,000 years, we have led not just an earthly existence, but a cosmic one. Celestial cycles drove every aspect of our daily lives. Our innate relationship with the stars shaped who we are - our art, religious beliefs, social status, scientific advances, and even our biology. But over the last few centuries we have separated ourselves from the universe that surrounds us. It's a disconnect with a dire cost.
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This book has changed the way I think about my own mortality!
- De Jerry en 02-04-21
De: Jo Marchant
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His Master's Voice
- De: Stanislaw Lem
- Narrado por: Nick Sullivan
- Duración: 9 h y 17 m
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A witty and inventive satire of "men of science" and their thinking, as a team of scientists races to decode a mysterious message from space. "I had the feeling that I was standing at the cradle of a new mythology. A last will and testament...we as the posthumous heirs of Them...."
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Excelent and entertaining
- De Jakub en 01-10-12
De: Stanislaw Lem
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Isaac Newton
- De: James Gleick
- Narrado por: Allan Corduner
- Duración: 5 h y 45 m
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James Gleick has long been fascinated by the making of science: how ideas order visible appearances, how equations can give meaning to molecular and stellar phenomena, how theories can transform what we see. In Chaos, he chronicled the emergence of a new way of looking at dynamic systems; in Genius, he portrayed the wondrous dimensions of Richard Feymnan's mind.
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BRUTAL
- De Andrew en 05-25-05
De: James Gleick
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The Most Powerful Idea in the World
- A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention
- De: William Rosen
- Narrado por: Michael Prichard
- Duración: 13 h y 30 m
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Award-winning author William Rosen tells the story of the men responsible for the Industrial Revolution and the machine that drove it: the steam engine.
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A Revelation about a Revolution
- De Roy en 08-01-10
De: William Rosen
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About Time
- Cosmology, Time and Culture at the Twilight of the Big Bang
- De: Adam Frank
- Narrado por: David Drummond
- Duración: 13 h y 32 m
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The Big Bang is all but dead, and we do not yet know what will replace it. Our universe's "beginning" is at an end. What does this have to do with us here on Earth? Our lives are about to be dramatically shaken again - as altered as they were with the invention of the clock, the steam engine, the railroad, the radio and the Internet.
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More fluff than science
- De Ivan the Reviewer en 04-15-13
De: Adam Frank
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The Invention of Air
- De: Steven Johnson
- Narrado por: Mark Deakins
- Duración: 6 h y 6 m
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Best-selling author Steven Johnson recounts - in dazzling, multidisciplinary fashion - the story of the brilliant man who embodied the relationship between science, religion, and politics for America's Founding Fathers. The Invention of Air is a title of world-changing ideas wrapped around a compelling narrative, a story of genius and violence and friendship in the midst of sweeping historical change that provokes us to recast our understanding of the Founding Fathers.
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Good scientific history
- De Roger en 05-03-10
De: Steven Johnson
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The Problem of Increasing Human Energy
- De: Nikola Tesla
- Narrado por: Ryan Jarvis
- Duración: 2 h y 27 m
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Written in 1900 by Nikola Tesla, this book gives great ideas on automation, agriculture, energy, and increasing human output to improve the human condition.
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boring
- De Amazon Customer nutbutter en 09-10-17
De: Nikola Tesla
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The Seashell on the Mountaintop
- De: Alan Cutler
- Narrado por: Grover Gardner
- Duración: 5 h y 39 m
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A thrilling scientific investigation and the portrait of an extraordinary genius, The Seashell on the Mountaintop gives us new insight into our planet, revealing how we learned to read the story told to us by the Earth itself, written in rock and stone.
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Not to be missed
- De Vanessa en 10-22-03
De: Alan Cutler
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The Dawn of Everything
- A New History of Humanity
- De: David Graeber, David Wengrow
- Narrado por: Mark Williams
- Duración: 24 h y 13 m
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A trailblazing account of human history, challenging our most fundamental assumptions about social evolution—from the development of agriculture and cities to the emergence of "the state", political violence, and social inequality—and revealing new possibilities for human emancipation.
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exactly what I've been looking for
- De DankTurtle en 11-10-21
De: David Graeber, y otros
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When Einstein Walked with Gödel
- Excursions to the Edge of Thought
- De: Jim Holt
- Narrado por: David Stifel
- Duración: 15 h y 19 m
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Does time exist? What is infinity? Why do mirrors reverse left and right but not up and down? In this scintillating collection, Holt explores the human mind, the cosmos, and the thinkers who’ve tried to encompass the latter with the former. With his trademark clarity and humor, Holt probes the mysteries of quantum mechanics, the quest for the foundations of mathematics, and the nature of logic and truth. Along the way, he offers intimate biographical sketches of celebrated and neglected thinkers, from the physicist Emmy Noether to the computing pioneer Alan Turing and the discoverer of fractals, Benoit Mandelbrot.
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A good overview of scientific theory
- De MJ Walters en 09-11-18
De: Jim Holt
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The Invention of Yesterday
- A 50,000-Year History of Human Culture, Conflict, and Connection
- De: Tamim Ansary
- Narrado por: Tamim Ansary
- Duración: 17 h y 4 m
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Traveling across millennia, weaving the experiences and world views of cultures both extinct and extant, The Invention of Yesterday shows that the engine of history is not so much heroic (battles won), geographic (farmers thrive), or anthropogenic (humans change the planet) as it is narrative. Many thousands of years ago, when we existed only as countless small autonomous bands of hunter-gatherers widely distributed through the wilderness, we began inventing stories - to organize for survival, to find purpose and meaning, to explain the unfathomable.
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Relaxed but packed with insight
- De Tad Davis en 02-14-20
De: Tamim Ansary
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Nonzero
- The Logic of Human Destiny
- De: Robert Wright
- Narrado por: Kevin T. Collins
- Duración: 16 h y 13 m
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At the beginning of Nonzero, Robert Wright sets out to "define the arrow of the history of life, from the primordial soup to the World Wide Web." Twenty-two chapters later, after a sweeping and vivid narrative of the human past, he has succeeded and has mounted a powerful challenge to the conventional view that evolution and human history are aimless.
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Non-Zero (but pretty close to zero)
- De Douglas en 02-06-14
De: Robert Wright
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A History of Pi
- De: Petr Beckmann
- Narrado por: Stephen R. Thorne
- Duración: 6 h y 42 m
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The history of pi, says the author, though a small part of the history of mathematics, is nevertheless a mirror of the history of man. Petr Beckmann holds up this mirror, giving the background of the times when pi made progress - and also when it did not, because science was being stifled by militarism or religious fanaticism.
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one of the best history books
- De Michael Wharton en 05-19-22
De: Petr Beckmann
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Significant Figures
- The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians
- De: Ian Stewart
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
- Duración: 11 h y 39 m
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In Significant Figures, acclaimed mathematician Ian Stewart introduces the visionaries of mathematics throughout history. Delving into the lives of twenty-five great mathematicians, Stewart examines the roles they played in creating, inventing, and discovering the mathematics we use today. Through these short biographies, we get acquainted with the history of mathematics.
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Beware
- De Anton Kurtz en 12-08-18
De: Ian Stewart
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A Most Elegant Equation
- Euler’s Formula and the Beauty of Mathematics
- De: David Stipp
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 5 h y 2 m
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Bertrand Russell wrote that mathematics can exalt "as surely as poetry". This is especially true of one equation: ei(pi) + 1 = 0, the brainchild of Leonhard Euler, the Mozart of mathematics. More than two centuries after Euler's death, it is still regarded as a conceptual diamond of unsurpassed beauty. Called Euler's identity, or God's equation, it includes just five numbers but represents an astonishing revelation of hidden connections.
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Good treatment of the subject
- De Kindle Customer en 04-09-18
De: David Stipp
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Incompleteness
- The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel
- De: Rebecca Goldstein
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
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Probing the life and work of Kurt Gödel, Incompleteness indelibly portrays the tortured genius whose vision rocked the stability of mathematical reasoning—and brought him to the edge of madness.
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great read
- De Christopher Hayler en 09-12-24
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Index, a History of The
- A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
- De: Dennis Duncan
- Narrado por: Neil Gardner
- Duración: 8 h y 9 m
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Most of us give little thought to the back of the book - it's just where you go to look things up. But as Dennis Duncan reveals in this delightful and witty history, hiding in plain sight is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking, pleasure and play. In the pages of the index, we might find "Butchers, to be avoided", or "Cows that shite Fire", or even catch "Calvin in his chamber with a Nonne". Here, for the first time, is the secret world of the index: an unsung but extraordinary everyday tool, with an illustrious but little-known past.
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Maybe a book that should be read rather than listened to
- De Amazon Customer en 11-09-22
De: Dennis Duncan
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The Theory That Would Not Die
- How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy
- De: Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
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Bayes' rule appears to be a straightforward, one-line theorem: by updating our initial beliefs with objective new information, we get a new and improved belief. To its adherents, it is an elegant statement about learning from experience. To its opponents, it is subjectivity run amok. Sharon Bertsch McGrayne here explores this controversial theorem and the human obsessions surrounding it.
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Who is the intended audience?
- De Billy en 07-21-14
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A History of Pi
- De: Petr Beckmann
- Narrado por: Stephen R. Thorne
- Duración: 6 h y 42 m
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The history of pi, says the author, though a small part of the history of mathematics, is nevertheless a mirror of the history of man. Petr Beckmann holds up this mirror, giving the background of the times when pi made progress - and also when it did not, because science was being stifled by militarism or religious fanaticism.
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one of the best history books
- De Michael Wharton en 05-19-22
De: Petr Beckmann
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Significant Figures
- The Lives and Work of Great Mathematicians
- De: Ian Stewart
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
- Duración: 11 h y 39 m
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In Significant Figures, acclaimed mathematician Ian Stewart introduces the visionaries of mathematics throughout history. Delving into the lives of twenty-five great mathematicians, Stewart examines the roles they played in creating, inventing, and discovering the mathematics we use today. Through these short biographies, we get acquainted with the history of mathematics.
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Beware
- De Anton Kurtz en 12-08-18
De: Ian Stewart
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A Most Elegant Equation
- Euler’s Formula and the Beauty of Mathematics
- De: David Stipp
- Narrado por: Sean Pratt
- Duración: 5 h y 2 m
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Bertrand Russell wrote that mathematics can exalt "as surely as poetry". This is especially true of one equation: ei(pi) + 1 = 0, the brainchild of Leonhard Euler, the Mozart of mathematics. More than two centuries after Euler's death, it is still regarded as a conceptual diamond of unsurpassed beauty. Called Euler's identity, or God's equation, it includes just five numbers but represents an astonishing revelation of hidden connections.
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Good treatment of the subject
- De Kindle Customer en 04-09-18
De: David Stipp
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Incompleteness
- The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel
- De: Rebecca Goldstein
- Narrado por: Tom Perkins
- Duración: 8 h y 6 m
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Probing the life and work of Kurt Gödel, Incompleteness indelibly portrays the tortured genius whose vision rocked the stability of mathematical reasoning—and brought him to the edge of madness.
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great read
- De Christopher Hayler en 09-12-24
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Index, a History of The
- A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
- De: Dennis Duncan
- Narrado por: Neil Gardner
- Duración: 8 h y 9 m
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Historia
Most of us give little thought to the back of the book - it's just where you go to look things up. But as Dennis Duncan reveals in this delightful and witty history, hiding in plain sight is an unlikely realm of ambition and obsession, sparring and politicking, pleasure and play. In the pages of the index, we might find "Butchers, to be avoided", or "Cows that shite Fire", or even catch "Calvin in his chamber with a Nonne". Here, for the first time, is the secret world of the index: an unsung but extraordinary everyday tool, with an illustrious but little-known past.
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Maybe a book that should be read rather than listened to
- De Amazon Customer en 11-09-22
De: Dennis Duncan
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The Theory That Would Not Die
- How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, and Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy
- De: Sharon Bertsch McGrayne
- Narrado por: Laural Merlington
- Duración: 11 h y 51 m
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Bayes' rule appears to be a straightforward, one-line theorem: by updating our initial beliefs with objective new information, we get a new and improved belief. To its adherents, it is an elegant statement about learning from experience. To its opponents, it is subjectivity run amok. Sharon Bertsch McGrayne here explores this controversial theorem and the human obsessions surrounding it.
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Who is the intended audience?
- De Billy en 07-21-14
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The Big Bang of Numbers
- How to Build the Universe Using Only Math
- De: Manil Suri
- Narrado por: Eric Jason Martin
- Duración: 8 h y 52 m
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Our universe has multiple origin stories, from religious creation myths to the Big Bang of scientists. But if we leave those behind and start from nothing—no matter, no cosmos, not even empty space—could we create a universe using only math? Irreverent and boundlessly creative, The Big Bang of Numbers invites us to try.
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Great for the right audience
- De James S. en 03-09-23
De: Manil Suri
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Zero
- The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
- De: Charles Seife
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 6 h y 25 m
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In Zero, science journalist Charles Seife follows this innocent-looking number from its birth as an Eastern philosophical concept to its struggle for acceptance in Europe, its rise and transcendence in the West, and its ever-present threat to modern physics.
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Wonderful book!
- De Samvir Tamadurgam en 07-26-21
De: Charles Seife
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Weird Math
- A Teenage Genius and His Teacher Reveal the Strange Connections Between Math and Everyday Life
- De: David Darling, Agnijo Banerjee
- Narrado por: Gary Furlong
- Duración: 7 h y 44 m
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As teen math prodigy Agnijo Banerjee and his teacher David Darling reveal, complex math surrounds us. If we think long enough about the universe, we're left not with material stuff, but a ghostly and beautiful set of equations. Packed with puzzles and paradoxes, mind-bending concepts, and surprising solutions, Weird Math leads us from a lyrical exploration of mathematics in our universe to profound questions about God, chance, and infinity. A magical introduction to the mysteries of math, it will entrance beginners and seasoned mathematicians alike.
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sometimes less is more
- De Bernd Lamberts en 11-07-18
De: David Darling, y otros
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Measurement
- De: Paul Lockhart
- Narrado por: Kyle Tait
- Duración: 9 h y 17 m
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For seven years, Paul Lockhart's A Mathematician's Lament enjoyed a samizdat-style popularity in the mathematics underground, before demand prompted its 2009 publication to even wider applause and debate. An impassioned critique of K-12 mathematics education, it outlined how we shortchange students by introducing them to math the wrong way. Here, Lockhart offers the positive side of the math education story by showing us how math should be done. Measurement offers a permanent solution to math phobia by introducing us to mathematics as an artful way of thinking and living.
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Wonderfully written!
- De Emelie Reuterswärd en 02-27-20
De: Paul Lockhart
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Nothing
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Frank Close
- Narrado por: Ray Chase
- Duración: 4 h y 53 m
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This short, smart book tells you everything you need to know about "nothing". What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space - "nothing" - exist? To answer these questions, eminent scientist Frank Close takes us on a lively and accessible journey that ranges from ancient ideas and cultural superstitions to the frontiers of current research, illuminating the story of how scientists have explored the void and the rich discoveries they have made there.
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Nice lil book about vacuum and void
- De Huntress Janos en 07-13-24
De: Frank Close
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Mathematics
- A Very Short Introduction
- De: Timothy Gowers
- Narrado por: Craig Jessen
- Duración: 5 h y 21 m
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The aim of this book is to explain, carefully but not technically, the differences between advanced, research-level mathematics and the sort of mathematics we learn at school. The most fundamental differences are philosophical, and listeners of this book will emerge with a clearer understanding of paradoxical-sounding concepts such as infinity, curved space, and imaginary numbers. The first few chapters are about general aspects of mathematical thought.
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The Joy of x
- A Guided Tour of Math, from One to Infinity
- De: Steven Strogatz
- Narrado por: Jonathan Yen
- Duración: 6 h y 9 m
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Many people take math in high school and promptly forget much of it. But math plays a part in all of our lives all of the time, whether we know it or not. In The Joy of x, Steven Strogatz expands on his hit New York Times series to explain the big ideas of math gently and clearly, with wit, and insight.
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Great listen
- De cameron en 08-16-19
De: Steven Strogatz
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Calculating the Cosmos
- How Mathematics Unveils the Universe
- De: Ian Stewart
- Narrado por: Dana Hickox
- Duración: 12 h y 39 m
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In Calculating the Cosmos, Ian Stewart presents an exhilarating guide to the cosmos, from our solar system to the entire universe. He describes the architecture of space and time, dark matter and dark energy, how galaxies form, why stars implode, how everything began, and how it's all going to end. He considers parallel universes, the fine-tuning of the cosmos for life, what forms extraterrestrial life might take, and the likelihood of life on Earth being snuffed out by an asteroid.
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Crank alert: rejects modern cosmology
- De James Weisner en 03-20-17
De: Ian Stewart
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Journey to the Edge of Reason
- The Life of Kurt Gödel
- De: Stephen Budiansky
- Narrado por: Bob Souer
- Duración: 8 h y 52 m
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Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel's famous proof that every mathematical system must contain propositions that are true - yet never provable - continues to unsettle mathematics, philosophy, and computer science. Yet unlike Einstein, with whom he formed a warm and abiding friendship, Gödel has long escaped all but the most casual scrutiny of his life.
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Interesting story of a great mathematician
- De James Orlin en 04-28-22
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The Economic Weapon
- The Rise of Sanctions as a Tool of Modern War
- De: Nicholas Mulder
- Narrado por: Liam Gerrard
- Duración: 12 h y 25 m
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Economic sanctions dominate the landscape of world politics today. First developed in the early twentieth century as a way of exploiting the flows of globalization to defend liberal internationalism, their appeal is that they function as an alternative to war. This view, however, ignores the dark paradox at their core: designed to prevent war, economic sanctions are modeled on devastating techniques of warfare.
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History of sanctions during the early 20th century
- De Mehdi Mollahasani en 03-05-22
De: Nicholas Mulder
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Mathematics for Human Flourishing
- De: Francis Su, Christopher Jackson - contributor
- Narrado por: David Sadzin
- Duración: 6 h y 52 m
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For mathematician Francis Su, a society without mathematical affection is like a city without concerts, parks, or museums. To miss out on mathematics is to live without experiencing some of humanity's most beautiful ideas. In this profound book, written for a wide audience but especially for those disenchanted by their past experiences, an award-winning mathematician and educator weaves parables, puzzles, and personal reflections to show how mathematics meets basic human desires - such as for play, beauty, freedom, justice, and love.
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Read this book!
- De Stephanie L Malcolm en 01-19-21
De: Francis Su, y otros
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The Man Who Knew Infinity
- A Life of the Genius Ramanujan
- De: Robert Kanigel
- Narrado por: Humphrey Bower
- Duración: 17 h y 26 m
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In 1913, an unschooled young Indian clerk wrote a letter to G. H. Hardy, begging that preeminent English mathematician's opinion on several ideas he had about numbers. Hardy, realizing the letter was the work of a genius, arranged for Srinivasa Ramanujan to come to England. Thus began one of the most remarkable collaborations ever chronicled.
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Thorough and Enjoyable
- De Roger en 05-23-08
De: Robert Kanigel
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Beyond Measure
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- Evan Greenwald
- 02-24-23
Great book!
I learned a lot & had a great time doing it. When I was doing my year abroad at University of Sussex in Brighton, UK, I met up with James Vincent & his partner at the time, both friends of mine. We had a great time, although it is the only time in my life that I have ever had a hangover. A great thing about this book is, fun as it is, there is no hangover afterward.
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- Rob
- 01-25-23
An enjoyable meter of history
I'm a huge fan of exploring the obscure corners of our history. At first glance most would see the topic of metrology & run in the other direction out of fear of dry content. James keeps the content insightful & entertaining through the course of the book. My only issue is with the recording. The author does a superb delivery, however, the ends of chapters 4 & 9 are clipped; resulting in an incomplete thought.
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- Spiderbeach
- 11-17-23
Impressive Cultural Deepthinking About Measurement
Much better than anticipated since it covers the development of ideas of measurement over history to help development a current understanding of modern surveillance systems.
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- James
- 10-12-23
Interesting and informative
This was an interesting book about the history of measurement and how different measures are derived, from the crudest (cubit, hand, etc.) to the most precise meters calculated as fractions of the speed of light.
It was a pretty compelling tale, but did drag a bit in a few places.
The author also got into completely unnecessary politics a couple times, but not terribly so.
I learned a fair bit and it was interesting. The discussion of NIST was particularly interesting.
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- Mark Laskow
- 01-08-24
Leftist Take on Science.
You know where you are headed when the author of a science book manages to work Horkheimer and Adorno into the first few pages. I did enjoy the bits where he wrote about the history of scientific measurement.
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- Janet D.
- 12-27-22
Will alter your understanding of history
This book was fascinating. Understanding how measurement became á crucial element in the the development of larger systems and having some insight into the metric vs imperial measurement battle were especially enlightening for me.
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- A Z A R
- 06-26-23
Hoped for more information
Was hoping for more about how various measurements came to be. It covered a couple and ended philosophically in the last 2 hours.
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- Elliott Wolfe, M.D.
- 12-08-22
Why we Measure
Measuring has evolved through centuries. We learn how and why, beyond the obvious. Facts are intermingled with philosophy. Social networks now measure us every day. Are we better off?
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- 06-09-23
Measured with five stars
A very enjoyable listen that approaches measurement from many angles-scientific, sociological, political, and historical. Highly recommend.
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