Kategoria BISAC: Biography & Autobiography >> Science & Technology

Die Geschichte wird von den Siegern geschrieben. Aber dies ist kein Trost fur diejenigen, deren Name von der Feder des Verlegers herausgestrichen wurde. Viele Jahre lang haben die wissenschaftlichen Lehrbucher Elektrizitat und Licht mit einem einzigen Mann, Thomas Edison, gleichgesetzt, wahrend der Name des Genies, dessen elektrische Techniken die heutige Welt speisen, in einer unbedeutenden Notiz am Rande der Geschichte der Wissenschaft verkummerte.

Vor Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts war Elektrizitat ein rein wissenschaftliches Kuriosum. Nikola Tesla hat dies wohl mehr als jeder Andere...

Sophie Germain taught herself mathematics by candlelight, huddled in her bedclothes. Ada Byron Lovelace anticipated aspects of general-purpose digital computing by more than a century. Cora Ratto de Sadosky advanced messages of tolerance and equality while sharing her mathematical talents with generations of students.

This captivating book gives voice to women mathematicians from the late eighteenth century through to the present day. It documents the complex nature of the conditions women around the world have faced--and continue to face--while pursuing their careers in...

At the heart of it all from the very start have been curators. Yet after three decades as a natural history curator, Lance Grande found that he still had to explain to people what he does. This book is the answer--and, oh, what an answer it...

In 1936, when he was just twenty-four years old, Alan Turing wrote a remarkable paper in which he outlined the theory of computation, laying out the ideas that underlie all modern computers. This groundbreaking and powerful theory now forms the basis of computer science. In Turing's Vision, Chris Bernhardt explains the theory, Turing's most important contribution, for the general reader. Bernhardt argues that the strength of Turing's theory is its simplicity, and that, explained in a straightforward manner, it is eminently understandable by the nonspecialist. As Marvin Minsky...

In Tower Dog: Life Inside the Deadliest Job in America, Douglas Scott Delaney, a tower dog for more than fifteen years,...

Is there a God? If so, does God care about us? Or is human life a mere accident of physics?

For centuries, these fundamental questions have been integral to every culture and religion the world has known--and have not been answered, save by faith. When it comes to finding answers about how the universe came into...