Benoit Mandelbrot: A Life In Many Dimensions
A collection of articles, many written by people who worked with Mandelbrot, memorializing the...
EAN: 9789814366069
No-nonsense Physicist
?This book presents a compact personal biography and a collection of works by Gabriele F....
EAN: 9788876425356
Laura Bassi and Science in 18th Century Europe
Laura Maria Caterina Bassi (1711-1778) defended 49 Theses at the University of Bologna on April...
EAN: 9783642386848
Science, Utility and Maritime Power
During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, Samuel Bentham influenced both the...
EAN: 9781472412676
My Watery Self
In "My Watery Self: An Aquatic Memoir," author/scientist Stephen Spotte traces a fascinating...
EAN: 9781941110164
Samuel F. B. Morse and the Dawn of the Age of Electricity
In this book, based on previously unpublished archival sources, George F. Botjer examines the...
EAN: 9781498501408
Walter Rothschild
Born into one of the wealthiest families, Walter Rothschild became the best known zoologist of...
EAN: 9780565092283
Matthew Forster Heddle
An account, by his great-great-grandson, of Professor Matthew Heddle (1828-97, a larger-than-life...
EAN: 9781905267989
John Brunton's Book
Originally published in 1939, this book contains the autobiography of the well-travelled...
EAN: 9781107511712
Patrick Blackett
This edited volume comprises a series of essays about Patrick Maynard Stewart Blackett, one of...
EAN: 9781138011168
Wright Brothers
Two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize David McCullough tells the dramatic story-behind-the-story...
EAN: 9781471150388
Neanderthal Man
A preeminent geneticist hunts the Neanderthal genome to answer the biggest question of them all:...
EAN: 9780465054954
Herbert Frohlich
This biography provides a stimulating and coherent blend of scientific and personal narratives...
EAN: 9783319148502
Alan M. Turing
To commemorate the centenary of Turing's birth, this republication of his mother's biography...
EAN: 9781107524224
Skeleton Cupboard
Tanya Byron shares powerful stories from her final years of training as a clinical psychologist
EAN: 9781447270218
We Know How This Ends
Written with wisdom, genuine humor, anddowntoearth observations, We Know How This Ends is far...
EAN: 9780816697335
Tesla
Nikola Tesla was a major contributor to the electrical revolution that transformed daily life at...
EAN: 9780691165615
Nature's Oracle
W.D.Hamilton was responsible for one of the major revolutions in evolutionary thought since...
EAN: 9780198607281
Stephen Hales
Originally published in 1929, this book presents a comprehensive biography of the clergyman,...
EAN: 9781107475229
