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Télécharger le livre :  Pioneering Israeli Women in Electronic Computing (1953—1970)
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Pioneering Israeli Women in Electronic Computing (1953—1970)


Leo Corry , Raya Leviathan


This book offers a journey into the history of pioneering Israeli women in electronic computing and explores the impact these women had on the annals of Israeli computing history. With the primary setting being the Weizmann Institute of Science, where the genesis of...

Parution : 2025-03-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Galileo and Satellite Navigation
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Galileo and Satellite Navigation


Alessandro De Angelis


This book explores the Galilean method for geolocation, placing it in historical and astronomical context. It bridges the techniques developed by the Greeks and medieval astronomers with later innovations like precision clocks, 20th-century wireless technology, and...

Parution : 2024-12-26
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Télécharger le livre :  Explorations and False Trails
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Explorations and False Trails


Jens Høyrup


This book provides a unique perspective on the history of European algebra up to the advent of Viète and Descartes. The standard version of this history is written on the basis of a narrow and misleading source basis: the Latin translations of al-Khwarizmi, Fibonacci's...

Parution : 2024-07-29
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Télécharger le livre :  Galileo and the 1604 Supernova
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Galileo and the 1604 Supernova


Alessandro De Angelis


This book is about the 1604 supernova and presents the translation of key documents discussing this astronomical event in Italy. Only seven Galactic supernovae visible to the naked eye are documented, with the 1604 event, the last in history, profoundly impacting...

Parution : 2024-07-20
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Télécharger le livre :  Knowledge, Literacy, and Elementary Education in the Old Babylonian Period
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Knowledge, Literacy, and Elementary Education in the Old Babylonian Period


Robert Middeke-Conlin


This book examines education as a means to explore knowledge and literacy in the Old Babylonian period. It further employs a new method to research these topics. Contrary to numerous existing studies on the subject, the author examines elementary education globally,...

Parution : 2023-11-09
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Télécharger le livre :  Materializing the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics
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Materializing the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics


Climério Paulo Da Silva Neto


This book offers a history of the instrumentation used to materialize the early thought experiments devised in the Einstein-Bohr disputes over the foundations of quantum mechanics. It shows how the second world war and cold war fostered the development of materials,...

Parution : 2023-05-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Chaim L. Pekeris and the Art of Applying Mathematics with WEIZAC, 1955–1963
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Chaim L. Pekeris and the Art of Applying Mathematics with WEIZAC, 1955–1963


Leo Corry , Raya Leviathan


This book describes the groundbreaking work of Chaim Leib Pekeris and his collaborators. Between 1955 and 1963 they used the first electronic computer built in Israel, the Weizmann Automatic Computer (WEIZAC), to develop powerful numerical methods that helped achieve...

Parution : 2023-04-24
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Télécharger le livre :  Working Toward Solutions in Fluid Dynamics and Astrophysics
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Working Toward Solutions in Fluid Dynamics and Astrophysics


Erik Curiel , Lydia Patton


This book focuses on continuing the long-standing productive dialogue between physical science and the philosophy of science. Researchers and readers who want to keep up to date on front-line scientific research in fluid mechanics and gravitational wave astrophysics...

Parution : 2023-03-28
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Télécharger le livre :  From Dissent to Diplomacy: The Pugwash Project During the 1960s Cold War
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From Dissent to Diplomacy: The Pugwash Project During the 1960s Cold War


Alison Kraft


This book provides new and critical perspectives on the internal development of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs (the PCSWA; Pugwash) and its role in international nuclear diplomacy during the 1960s Cold War.  Conceived by western scientists...

Parution : 2022-10-22
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Télécharger le livre :  British Versions of Book II of Euclid's Elements: Geometry, Arithmetic, Algebra (1550–1750)
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British Versions of Book II of Euclid's Elements: Geometry, Arithmetic, Algebra (1550–1750)


Leo Corry


This book discusses the changing conceptions about the relationship between geometry and arithmetic within the Euclidean tradition that developed in the British context of the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Its focus is on Book II of the Elements and the ways in...

Parution : 2022-09-12
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Télécharger le livre :  Historical Roots of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
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Historical Roots of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking


Rocco Gaudenzi


What are the thinking processes and knowledge resources involved in a complex discovery? How can the physics of solids, the physics of nuclei, and elementary particle physics cross-fertilise in spite of the widely differing domains and energy scales they deal...

Parution : 2022-04-28
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Télécharger le livre :  Distributivity-like Results in the Medieval Traditions of Euclid's Elements
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Distributivity-like Results in the Medieval Traditions of Euclid's Elements


Leo Corry


This book provides a fresh view on an important and largely overlooked aspect of the Euclidean traditions in the medieval mathematical texts, particularly concerning the interrelations between geometry and arithmetic, and the rise  of algebraic modes...

Parution : 2021-11-19
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Télécharger le livre :  The Roots and Development of Particle Physics in India
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The Roots and Development of Particle Physics in India


Sreerup Raychaudhuri


This book narrates the history of the initiation and development of elementary particle physics in India and by Indians, focusing on the first half of the twentieth century. The thread is taken up with the introduction of Western science into India in the previous...

Parution : 2021-08-16
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Télécharger le livre :  How to Make a Database in Historical Studies
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How to Make a Database in Historical Studies


Tiago Luís Gil


This book is a greatly supplemented translation from Portuguese, originally published in 2015. It discusses the most appropriate ways to create databases for research on history and other humanities, including an extensive debate about the usages that historians have...

Parution : 2021-07-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Establishing Quantum Physics in Berlin
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Establishing Quantum Physics in Berlin


Giuseppe Castagnetti , Hubert Goenner


This book explores Albert Einstein’s move to Berlin and the establishment of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics under his directorship. Einstein’s call to Berlin was supported by a group of prominent physicists, including Fritz Haber, Walter Nernst, Max Planck,...

Parution : 2021-01-27
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Télécharger le livre :  Reassessing Riemann's Paper
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Reassessing Riemann's Paper


Walter Dittrich


In this book, the author pays tribute to Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866), a mathematician with revolutionary ideas, whose work on the theory of integration, the Fourier transform, the hypergeometric differential equation, etc. contributed immensely to mathematical physics....

Parution : 2021-01-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Establishing Quantum Physics in Munich
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Establishing Quantum Physics in Munich


Michael Eckert


This book traces the history of Arnold Sommerfeld’s famous “nursery of theoretical physics” at the University of Munich and demonstrates the centrality of developing personal and institutional networks for the emergence of quantum theory. Sommerfeld, originally a...

Parution : 2020-12-15
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Télécharger le livre :  The Copenhagen Network
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The Copenhagen Network


Alexei Kojevnikov


This book is a historical analysis of the quantum mechanical revolution and the emergence of a new discipline from the perspective, not of a professor, but of a recent or actual Ph.D. student just embarking on an uncertain academic career in economically hard times....

Parution : 2020-12-02
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Télécharger le livre :  Czech Women Philosophers and Scientists
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Czech Women Philosophers and Scientists


Zdenka Jastrzembská , Dagmar Pichová , Jan Zouhar


This book examines the most important Czech women philosophers and scientists. It highlights the lives and achievements of a group that has often not received the recognition they deserve. Chapters provide a systematic description and critical evaluation of the impact...

Parution : 2020-11-11
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Télécharger le livre :  Philosophy and Allotment : John Locke's influence on Henry L. Dawes
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Philosophy and Allotment : John Locke's influence on Henry L. Dawes


David Bergeron


This book provides a new perspective for examining the Native policies of the late nineteenth century. It centers on the figure of Henry Laurens Dawes, and more specifically, on the conceptual roots of his views on allotment, education and assimilation. These roots are...

Parution : 2020-01-06
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