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First Three Minutes: a Modern View of the Origin of the Universe
by Weinberg, Steven
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U.S.A
Basic Books
1993
. 203p
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1993
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Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track
by Feynman, Richard P
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Basic Books
2005
. 486p
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Multiple Intelligences
by Gardner, Howard
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U.S.A
Basic Books
1993
. 304p
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1993
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I am a strange loop /
by Hofstadter, Douglas R.,
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New York :
Basic Books,
2007
. xix, 412 p., [4] p. of plates :
, What do we mean when we say "I"? Can thought arise out of matter? Can a self, a soul, a consciousness, an "I" arise out of mere matter? If it cannot, then how can you or I be here? I Am a Strange Loop argues that the key to understanding selves and consciousness is the "strange loop"--a special kind of abstract feedback loop inhabiting our brains. Deep down, a human brain is a chaotic seething soup of particles, on a higher level it is a jungle of neurons, and on a yet higher level it is a network of abstractions that we call "symbols." The most central and complex symbol in your brain or mine is the one we both call "I." The "I" is the nexus in our brain where the levels feed back into each other and flip causality upside down, with symbols seeming to have free will and to have gained the paradoxical ability to push particles around, rather than the reverse. For each human being, this "I" seems to be the realest thing in the world. But how can such a mysterious abstraction be real--or is our "I" merely a convenient fiction? Does an "I" exert genuine power over the particles in our brain, or is it helplessly pushed around by the all-powerful laws of physics? These are the mysteries tackled in I Am a Strange Loop, Douglas R. Hofstadter's first book-length journey into philosophy since Godel, Escher, Bach. Compulsively readable and endlessly thought-provoking, this is the book Hofstadter's many readers have long been waiting for.
25 cm.
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2007
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Churchill's secret war :
by Mukerjee, Madhusree.
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2010
. xxxi, 332 p. :
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2010
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The Feynman lectures on physics /
by Feynman, Richard P.
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Basic Books, | PEARSON,
2013
. 3 v. :
, Originally published 1963-1965. | New edition features improved typography, figures and tables, expanded indexes, and 885 new corrections.
29 cm.
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2013
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The magic of maths :
by Benjamin, Arthur
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New York:
Basic Books,
2015
. 321 p. ;
, The Magic of Maths is the maths book you wish you had in school. Using a delightful assortment of examples, from ice cream scoops and poker hands that teach you factorials to mnemonics that help you memorize pi, this book empowers you to see the beauty, simplicity, and fun behind those formulas and equations that once left your head spinning. You'll learn the key ideas of classic areas of mathematics like arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry, and calculus but you'll also have fun playing with pi, fooling around with Fibonacci numbers, investigating infinity, and marvelling over mathematical magic tricks. A tour of the greatest hits of mathematics, The Magic of Maths is a book for both fans of mathematics and those who want to be proven wrong about their previous prejudices of maths. Arthur Benjamin is a mathematician-known throughout the world as the "mathemagician"-who mixes mathematics and magic to make the subject fun and beautiful. Maths lovers are going to find new ways to look at old friends, the way a view from a mountaintop puts a beautiful valley in a new perspective. For everyone whonever particularly liked or understood maths-The Magic of Maths is going to put you under its spell.
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The pleasure of finding things out :
by Feynman, Richard P.
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New York:
Basic Books/A Member of the Perseus Books Group,
1999
. xvi, 270 p. ;
, Includes index.
22 cm.
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1999
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