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Lazare Carnot was the unique example in the history of science of someone who inadvertently owed the scientific recognition he eventually achieved to earlier political prominence. He and his son Sadi produced work that derived from their training as engineering and went largely unnoticed by physicists for a generation or more, even though their respective work introduced concepts that proved fundamental when taken up later by other hands. There was, moreover, a filial as well as substantive relation between the work of father and son. Sadi applied to the functioning of heat engines the...

This book argues that we can only understand transformations of nature studies in the Scientific Revolution if we take seriously the interaction between practitioners (those who know by doing) and scholars (those who know by thinking). These are not in opposition, however. Theory and practice are end points on a continuum, with some participants interested only in the practical, others only in the theoretical, and most in the murky intellectual and material world in between. It is this borderland where influence, appropriation, and collaboration have the potential to lead to new methods,...

Kaum einem anderen Fach haftet der Ruf des Komplizierten und Formellastigen so stark an, wie der Physik. Doch sind viele der grundlegenden Konzepte und Prinzipien auch ohne tiefere mathematische Ausbildung verstandlich.
Dieses Buch soll eine Brucke zwischen den verschiedenen Kulturen der Geistes- und der Naturwissenschaften schlagen. Dabei geht der Autor in seiner Abhandlung weit uber das Niveau vorhandener popularwissenschaftlicher Darstellungen hinaus. Ein separates Kapitel liefert die mathematischen Grundlagen, die das Verstandnis vieler physikalischer Konzepte erleichtern. Dies gibt...

A prophecy states the possible scenarios that may await us; on the one hand to prepare us for them and on the other to show how intricately interconnected are the threads of time - so much so that we are able to foresee events, if only in allegorical form.

It is perhaps this which brings all prophecies closest to our daily lives: they remind us of the "circular" dimension of space and time where, more than chronology or the reading of cause and effect, what counts is the angle from which we observe events amid the laws governing the universe.

To better understand the frame of...

Online, offline, Linienflug, rote Linie, Richtlinie, Horizont - in unserer Sprache und unserem Alltag sind Linien omniprasent. Auch in Kunsten, Philosophie und Wissenschaften spielen sie eine zentrale Rolle. Sie sind grundlegend wie Bild, Schrift oder Zahl. Aus der Selbstverstandlichkeit, mit der sie unsere Orientierung steuern, unser Denken ordnen und unserer visuellen Erfahrung Gestalt geben, hebt der Band einen komplexen Zusammenhang heraus: Er fuhrt in Texte aus verschiedenen historischen Zusammenhangen ein, in denen Begriff und Phanomen der Linie ausdrucklich und exemplarisch zum...

This volume presents an historical and philosophical revisiting of the foundational character of Turing's conceptual contributions and assesses the impact of the work of Alan Turing on the history and philosophy of science. Written by experts from a variety of disciplines, the book draws out the continuing significance of Turing's work. The centennial of Turing's birth in 2012 led to the highly celebrated "Alan Turing Year," which stimulated a world-wide cooperative, interdisciplinary revisiting of his life and work. Turing is widely regarded as one of the most important scientists of the...

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All the Math Your 3rd Grader Needs to Succeed

This book will help your elementary school student develop the math skills needed to succeed in the classroom and on standardized tests. The user-friendly, full-color pages are filled to the brim with engaging activities for maximum educational value. The book includes easy-to-follow instructions, helpful examples, and tons of practice problems to help students master each concept, sharpen their problem-solving skills, and build confidence.

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Math CLEP Prep helps student prepare for the College-Level Examination Program (CLEP) exam in College Mathematics. CLEP is a program through which students show mastery of a topic through an exam for college credit. CLEP is accepted at almost 3000 colleges and universities.

This book shows prospective test takers how to get from the questions to the answers on the CLEP College Mathematics exam. For every practice question in the College Mathematics section of the 2017 CLEP Official Study Guide, Math CLEP Prep contains a similar problem and explains its solution fully, step by step....

A philosopher, scholar of the natural world, and gifted mathematician, Thomas Reid holds a distinctive place in the Scottish Enlightenment. This volume reconstructs Reid's lifelong engagement with the physical sciences and makes clear why these fields were central to his epistemology and moral and social philosophy.

Placing Reid's "Essay on Quantity" alongside his previously unpublished writings on mathematics and the physical sciences, Paul Wood shows that, in contrast to Francis Hutcheson and David Hume, Reid was a philosopher rooted not only in the science of man but also in the...

All the Math Your 5th Grader Needs to Succeed

This book will help your elementary school student develop the math skills needed to succeed in the classroom and on standardized tests. The user-friendly, full-color pages are filled to the brim with engaging activities for maximum educational value. The book includes easy-to-follow instructions, helpful examples, and tons of practice problems to help students master each concept, sharpen their problem-solving skills, and build confidence.

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In this well-illustrated book the authors, Sinan Kanbir, Ken Clements, and Nerida Ellerton, tackle a persistent, and universal, problem in school mathematics--why do so many middle-school and secondary-school students find it difficult to learn algebra well? What makes the book important is the unique features which comprised the design-research approach that the authors adopted in seeking a solution to the problem.

The first unique feature was that the authors offered a historical overview of the history of school algebra. Despite the fact that algebra has been an important...