The first popular book to explain the dramatic theory behind the Moon's genesis
This lively science history relates one of the great recent breakthroughs in planetary astronomy-a successful theory of the birth of the Moon. Science journalist Dana Mackenzie traces the evolution of this theory, one little known outside the scientific community: a Mars-sized object collided with Earth some four billion years ago, and the remains of this colossal explosion-the Big Splat-came together to form the Moon. Beginning with notions of the Moon in ancient cosmologies, Mackenzie relates the...
The first popular book to explain the dramatic theory behind the Moon's genesis
This lively science history relates one of the great recent b...
Features the Poincare Conjecture, a hundred-year-old problem that has apparently been solved by Grigory Perelman of St Petersburg, Russia. This book also contains chapters on Venn diagrams and primality testing.
Features the Poincare Conjecture, a hundred-year-old problem that has apparently been solved by Grigory Perelman of St Petersburg, Russia. This book a...
Describes some genuine surprises, such as the discovery that coin tosses are inherently unfair; a mathematical theory of invisibility that was soon followed by the creation of a prototype 'invisibility cloak'; and, an ultra-efficient approach to image sens
Describes some genuine surprises, such as the discovery that coin tosses are inherently unfair; a mathematical theory of invisibility that was soon fo...
