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Serie: Princeton science library
paperbackEngels296 blz.9780691165165
5e druk
2-10-2015
Since the publication of the first edition in 1966, Eye and Brain has established itself worldwide as an essential introduction to the basic phenomena of visual perception. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780691209067
15-9-2020
Every day, we use our computers to perform remarkable feats. A simple web search picks out a handful of relevant needles from the world's biggest haystack. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780691279893
28-10-2025
Random Walks in Biology provides a lucid, straightforward introduction to the concepts and techniques of statistical physics that students of biology, biochemistry, and biophysics must know. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780691165530
22-3-2015
Knoll explores the deep history of life from its origins on a young planet to the incredible Cambrian explosion, with the very latest discoveries in paleontology integrated with emerging insights from molecular biology and earth system science. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780691180991
29-5-2018
Design pervades our lives. Everything from drafting a PowerPoint presentation to planning a state-of-the-art bridge embodies this universal human activity. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780691607979
21-3-2017
After his famous visit to the Galapagos Islands, Darwin speculated that "one might fancy that, from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780691264295
20-8-2024
How does life work? How does nature produce the right numbers of zebras and lions on the African savanna, or fish in the ocean? How do our bodies produce the right numbers of cells in our organs and bloodstream? Meer
PaperbackEngels9780691160832
26-10-2014
In the 1990s Richard B. Alley and his colleagues made headlines with the discovery that the last ice age came to an abrupt end over a period of only three years. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780691178097
21-11-2017
Our universe seems strangely "biophilic," or hospitable to life. Is this happenstance, providence, or coincidence? According to cosmologist Martin Rees, the answer depends on the answer to another question, the one posed by Einstein's famous remark: "What interests me most is whether God could have made the world differently. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780691175911
4-4-2017
In the mid-eighteenth century, Swiss-born mathematician Leonhard Euler developed a formula so innovative and complex that it continues to inspire research, discussion, and even the occasional limerick. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780691168449
22-9-2015
From the Winner of the Nobel Prize in Physics 2020 The Nature of Space and Time , two of the world's most famous physicists - Stephen Hawking ( A Brief History of Time ) and Roger Penrose ( The Road to Reality ) - debate these questions. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780691169248
15-3-2016
In the title, "[the square root of minus one]" appears as a radical over "-1." Meer
GebondenEngels9780691628943
21-3-2017
After his famous visit to the Galapagos Islands, Darwin speculated that "one might fancy that, from an original paucity of birds in this archipelago, one species had been taken and modified for different ends. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780691258935
30-4-2024
Describes the saga of humankind's quest to unravel the secrets of the universe. This title explains the physics and the history of how the advanced model of our universe arose and has passed every test hurled at it by the skeptics. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780691264301
22-10-2024
What can fashionable ideas, blind faith, or pure fantasy possibly have to do with the scientific quest to understand the universe? Surely, theoretical physicists are immune to mere trends, dogmatic beliefs, or flights of fancy? Meer