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Nel 1851, sotto lo sguardo dell'imperatore Napoleone III, un fisico pressoché sconosciuto si appresta a compiere una spettacolare dimostrazione all'interno del Panthéon: un lungo filo d'acciaio è fissato al soffitto della cupola e all'estremità una palla di ottone inizia a oscillare. Seguendo la traiettoria del grosso pendolo e osservando come le oscillazioni deviino dalla direzione iniziale, Foucault offre la prima prova che la Terra ruota su...

The story of the compass is shrouded in mystery and myth, yet most will agree it begins around the time of the birth of Christ in ancient China. A mysterious lodestone whose powers affected metal was known to the Chinese emperor. When this piece of metal was suspended in water, it always pointed north. This unexplainable occurrence led to the stone's use in feng shui, the Chinese art of finding the right location. However, it was the Italians,...

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Could fiction become reality? Will a time come when we are able to teleport across space or communicate between universes? The lines between science and science fiction are becoming increasingly blurred. When Captain Kirk of Star Trek calls `Beam me up Scotty' and when the spies in Philip Pulman's The Amber Spyglass communicate between universes both are using the phenomenon known as entanglement. Now quantum mechanics promises that some of o...

The Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the biggest, and by far the most powerful, machine ever built. A project of CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, its audacious purpose is to re-create, in a 16.5-mile-long circular tunnel under the French-Swiss countryside, the immensely hot and dense conditions that existed some 13.7 billion years ago within the first trillionth of a second after the fiery birth of our universe. In Present a...

Business Statistics, Abridged Fifth Edition offers an introduction to the key concepts essential to an introductory business statistics course. Based on market research, this abridgement has removed six chapters considered to be superfluous leaving a text that more accurately reflects market needs. This abridged edition continues to provide the student with a clear understanding of the core statistical concepts and rich problems to stimulate l...

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René Descartes (1596-1650) is one of the towering and central figures in Western philosophy and mathematics. His apothegm "Cogito, ergo sum” marked the birth of the mind-body problem, while his creation of so-called Cartesian coordinates have made our physical and intellectual conquest of physical space possible.But Descartes had a mysterious and mystical side, as well. Almost certainly a member of the occult brotherhood of the Rosicrucians, h...

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From the "New York Times"-bestselling author of "Fermat's Last Theorem" comes a story of discovery, evolution, science, and faith, involving French Jesuit priest Pierre Teilhard de Chardin and his beloved Catholic Church.

The author of "Ferment's Last Theorem" follows the greatest experiment of modern times, conducted by CERN, and attempts to understand--through the world's largest particle physics laboratory--the origins of the universe.

He was neither a mathematician nor a trained physicist and yet Léon Foucault always knew that a mysterious force of nature was among us. Like Newton, Galileo, Copernicus, and others before him, Foucault sensed a dramatic relationship between the rotating skies above and the seemingly motionless ground beneath our feet. But it wasn't until 1851 -- in Paris, inside the Panthéon, and in the company of fellow amateur scientist Napoleon III -- that...

After analyzing thousands of tax returns from around the country, Aczel has finally broken the secret statistical code the I.R.S. uses. From his research, Aczel can predict with a high degree of accuracy which of the more than 100 million returns filed annually will be audited and which will be spared.

ARE WE ON THE VERGE OF SOLVING THE RIDDLE OF CREATION USING EINSTEIN'S "GREATEST BLUNDER"?In a work that is at once lucid, exhilarating, and profound, renowned mathematician Dr. Amir Aczel, critically acclaimed author of Fermat's Last Theorem, takes us into the heart of science's greatest mystery. In January 1998, astronomers found evidence that the cosmos is expanding at an ever-increasing rate. The way we perceive the universe was changed fo...