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In December 1929, in a cave near Peking, a group of anthropologists and archaeologists that included a young French Jesuit priest named Pierre Teilhard de Chardin uncovered a prehuman skull. The find quickly became known around the world as Peking Man and was acclaimed as the missing link between erect hunting apes and our Cro-Magnon ancestors. It also became a provocative piece of evidence in the roiling debate over creationism versus evoluti...

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In Chance, celebrated mathematician Amir D. Aczel turns his sights on probability theory, the branch of mathematics that measures the likelihood of a random event. He explains probability in clear, layman's terms, and shows its practical applications. What is commonly called luck has mathematical roots and in Chance, you'll learn to increase your odds of success in everything from true love to the stock market. For thousands of years, the twin...

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Nel 1637 Pierre de Fermat, geniale innovatore della teoria dei numeri, formulò il suo ultimo, misterioso teorema, destinato a diventare fin da subito una delle sfide più affascinanti e coinvolgenti della storia della matematica: «Non esistono soluzioni intere positive all'equazione: x elevato alla n + y elevato alla n = z alla n se n è maggiore di 2». Un enigma presto iperbolizzato e consegnato al mito dalla morte del suo autore, che ne portò ...

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Nel 1637 il matematico francese Pierre de Fermat scrisse in una breve nota di aver dimostrato che, mentre il quadrato di un numero intero può essere scomposto nella somma dei quadrati di altri due numeri, come si evince dal teorema di Pitagora, ciò non è possibile per il cubo e per tutte le potenze superiori a due. La prova di questa affermazione non venne mai trovata tra le sue carte, e quello che venne definito "l'ultimo teorema di Fermat" r...

Nel 1917 Albert Einstein tentava di capire che cosa fosse accaduto subito dopo il Big Bang. I suoi calcoli lo portarono a scoprire che l'universo è in espansione, secondo un'equazione che formulò insieme al concetto di costante cosmologica. Per anni Einstein definì queste conclusioni il suo «più grande errore». La scienza contemporanea, però, è riuscita a verificare non solo che l'universo, in effetti, si espande, ma perfino che la sua espansi...

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Uranium, a nondescript element when found in nature, in the past century has become more sought after than gold. Its nucleus is so heavy that it is highly unstable and radioactive. If broken apart, it unleashes the tremendous power within the atom-the most controversial type of energy ever discovered. Set against the darkening shadow of World War II, Amir D. Aczel's suspenseful account tells the story of the fierce competition among the day's ...

Bestselling author Aczel vividly recounts how the discovery of Peking Man by, among others, a young Jesuit priest named Pierre Teilhard de Chardin helped to open the eyes of the world to new theories of humanitys origins that alarmed the traditionalists within the Church. Unabridged. 1 MP3 CD.

The existence of intelligent alien life is not only probable, but certain. Aczel proves it in this eye-opening, controversial look at extraterrestrial life. Line art.

Based on interviews with eleven Nobel Prize winners and many other prominent physicists, biologists, anthropologists, and psychologists, as well as leading theologians and spiritual leaders, Why Science Does Not Disprove God is a "well-informed and readable" (Wall Street Journal) analysis of the religious implications of our ever-increasing understanding of life and the universe. The renowned science writer Amir Aczel ("One of our best science...

The renowned science writer, mathematician, and bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem masterfully refutes the overreaching claims of the "New Atheists, " providing millions of educated believers with a clear, engaging explanation of what science really says, how there's still much space for the Divine in the universe, and why faith in both God and empirical science are not mutually exclusive In recent years a highly publicized coterie of...

In The Jesuit and the Skull, bestselling author Amir D. Aczel vividly recounts how the discovery of Peking Man by, among others, a young Jesuit priest named Pierre Teilhard de Chardin helped to open the eyes of the world to new theories of humanity's origins that alarmed the traditionalists within the Church. A deft mix of narrative history and a poignant personal story, The Jesuit and the Skull brings fresh insight to a debate that still rage...

In The Jesuit and the Skull, bestselling author Amir D. Aczel vividly recounts how the discovery of Peking Man by, among others, a young Jesuit priest named Pierre Teilhard de Chardin helped to open the eyes of the world to new theories of humanity's origins that alarmed the traditionalists within the Church. A deft mix of narrative history and a poignant personal story, The Jesuit and the Skull brings fresh insight to a debate that still rage...

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