A richly illustrated guide that takes the reader on a tour through ingenious uses of geometry to create illusory impressions of space and grandeur in Italian Renaissance art and architecture in the Eternal City. The book explores some of the most hi...Daugiau...
Get ready to relearn all the crap you were taught in school and then promptly forgot. Who can keep all that information in their head anyway? Now you can! With All the Sh*t You Should Have Learned, youll be schooled in history, language arts, math,...Daugiau...
Explaining the science behind science fiction and fantasyfrom the probable to the impossibleFrom space elevators to interstellar travel, science fiction and fantasy writers have come up with some brilliant, innovative ideas. Yet how...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 02-Feb-2014, Hardback, Leidėjas: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691147154)
From teleportation and space elevators to alien contact and interstellar travel, science fiction and fantasy writers have come up with some brilliant and innovative ideas. Yet how plausible are these ideas--for instance, could Mr. Weasleys flying c...Daugiau...
When did the concept of zero originate? Who discovered negative numbers? How were algebraic equations first created? These answers and more are all here. Each story has a list of terms to learn, related discussion questions, and experiments and activ...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 21-Feb-1997, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: John Wiley & Sons Inc, ISBN-13: 9780471176619)
Travels through mathematical concepts from Arithmetic to Zero to explore the wonders of the Fibonacci series, Russells Paradox, and the theory of Pythagorus, in a witty and enthusiastic investigation of the great proofs, conundrums, disputes, and so...Daugiau...
