History of Science

Prime Obsession taught us not to be afraid to put the math in a math book. Unknown Quantity heeds the lesson well. So grab your graphing calculators, slip ...

Unusually Gifted As Both A Physicist And A Novelist, Alan Lightman Has Lived In The Dual Worlds Of Science And Art For Much Of His Life. In These Brilliant ...

Livio (head, Science Division, Hubble Space Telescope Science Institute) tells the tale of the number phi (1.6180339887) and the golden ratio. He explains ...

Bayes' rule appears to be a straightforward, one-line theorem: by updating our initial beliefs with objective new information, we get a new and improved be...

Reality is Not What it SeemsCategories: Science & Math PhysicsRelativity

Winner of the Royal Society Prize for Science Books. Shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. Richard Holmes, prize-winning biographer of Coleridge and She...

The march of science has been marked through the years by episodes of drama and comedy, of failure as well as triumph, by outrageous strokes of luck, dese...

Provides An Overview Of Western Science From The Renaissance To The Present. Newton Gets It Completely Wrong -- I Believe -- Thomas Aquinas Versus Neil Arms...

Immersed In Radical Feminist Politics, Scientific Ingenuity, Establishment Opposition, And, Ultimately, A Sea Change In Social Attitudes, This Is The Fascin...

Theoretical physics is in trouble. At least that's the impression you'd get from reading a spate of recent books on the continued failure to resolve the 80-...

By G. Gamow; Illustrated By The Author And John Hookman. Includes Music.Categories: Science & Math PhysicsGravity

covering Physics, Astronomy, Chemistry, The Various Branches Of Biology, And Geology, This Book Is The Perfect Introduction To The History Of Science. A C...

The Zeroth Law : The Concept Of Temperature -- The First Law : The Conservation Of Energy -- The Second Law : The Increase In Entropy -- Free Energy : The A...