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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024<BR><BR>'Fascinating, witty and perspective-shifting . . . I finished it not only better informed about a captivating branch of mathematics, but with an invigorating sense of greater purchase on the world' OLIVER BURKEMAN<BR><BR>Thomas Bayes was an eighteenth-century Presbyterian minister and amateur mathematician whose obscure life belied the profound impact of his work. Fusing biography, razor-sharp science communication and intellectual history, Everything Is Predictable is a captivating tour of Bayes' theorem and its impact on modern life. From medical testing to artificial intelligence, Tom Chivers shows how a single compelling idea can have far-reaching consequences.

A FINANCIAL TIMES AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEAR<BR><BR>An exhilarating new biography of John von Neumann: the lost genius who invented our world<BR><BR>'A sparkling book, with an intoxicating mix of pen-portraits and grand historical narrative. Above all it fizzes with a dizzying mix of deliciously vital ideas. . . A staggering achievement' Tim Harford<BR><BR>The smartphones in our pockets and computers like brains. The vagaries of game theory and evolutionary biology. Self-replicating moon bases and nuclear weapons. All bear the fingerprints of one remarkable man: John von Neumann.<BR><BR>Born in Budapest at the turn of the century, von Neumann is one of the most influential scientists to have ever lived. His colleagues believed he had the fastest brain on the planet - bar none. He was instrumental in the Manhattan Project and helped formulate the bedrock of Cold War geopolitics and modern economic theory. He created the first ever programmable digital computer. He prophesied the potential of nanotechnology and, from his deathbed, expounded on the limits of brains and computers - and how they might be overcome.<BR><BR>Taking us on an astonishing journey, Ananyo Bhattacharya explores how a combination of genius and unique historical circumstance allowed a single man to sweep through so many different fields of science, sparking revolutions wherever he went.<BR><BR>Insightful and illuminating, The Man from the Future is a thrilling intellectual biography of the visionary thinker who shaped our century.

- Die erste umfassende Biografie über die brillante Denkerin.- Das beeindruckende Leben der wohl bedeutendsten Mathematikerin überhaupt, die sich mit großer innerer Stärke in einer Männerdomäne behauptete.- Ein berührendes Frauenschicksal im Spannungsfeld zwischen Anpassung und Auflehnung.- Ein wichtiger Beitrag zur aktuellen Debatte um das Geschlechterverhältnis in Beruf und Bildung. Sie hat einen messerscharfen Verstand, ringt zeitlebens um Anerkennung und lässt sich nicht beirren: Emmy Noether (1882-1935), die wohl bedeutendste Mathematikerin überhaupt, ist stark genug, nie zu tun, was die Gesellschaft von einer Frau erwartet. So manchem Widerstand zum Trotz gelingt es ihr, sich mit bahnbrechenden Arbeiten an die Spitze ihrer Disziplin zu kämpfen.In Erlangen wächst Emmy in einer liberal-jüdischen Familie auf. Nach ihrem Examen zur Sprachenlehrerin nimmt sie mit Sondererlaubnis ein Mathematikstudium auf, promoviert und tritt dank glänzender Leistungen aus dem Schatten ihres Vaters, eines bekannten Mathematikers. 1915 folgt Emmy Noether einem Ruf nach Göttingen, wirkt hier neben den Koryphäen ihres Fachs, doch ohne Gehalt und akademische Position ¿ weil sie eine Frau ist. Mit dem bis heute gültigen Noether-Theorem revolutioniert sie das mathematische Denken in der Physik, wird dann zur Pionierin der modernen Algebra. Hochbegabte Studenten aus aller Welt scharen sich um die außerordentliche Professorin, die inzwischen internationales Ansehen genießt. 1933 wird sie, da Jüdin, der Universität verwiesen. Sie emigriert in die USA, lehrt in Pennsylvania, in der Nähe Albert Einsteins, der die brillante Denkerin überaus schätzt. Das Schicksal schlägt zu, als sie sich einer Krebsoperation unterziehen muss ...

If you'd like a deep peek inside the education industry, this is the book for you. Mr. Williams worked at school districts in an urban environment, a rural one, and in the suburbs. He also taught in Alternative Education schools and a Jewish Yeshiva. In addition to describing these experiences, he documents one complete day in which he commuted in from the suburbs to teach high school math to inner city kids in Philadelphia, describing step by step what he did that day, his interactions with his family, the people he saw on the train and the street, and his struggles with his students. You'll know afterwards what it's like to be a teacher.Mr. Williams has a unique perspective because he survived ten years teaching with what most educators would consider "insufficient classroom management skills." Teaching is one of the few professions where the boss (the teacher) is fired when the workers (students) refuse to work. And the students know this--some of them depend on it.Here he offers his teaching philosophies as well as many of the teaching practices and unique lesson plans that enabled him to survive.

This is a kaleidoscopic account of the remarkable life story of Alladi Ramakrishnan (1923-2008), an internationally reputed physicist, and the son of Sir Alladi Krishnaswami Iyer (1883-1953), one of India's most eminent jurists.Part I of the autobiography gives a fascinating account his early life in Madras, India during the last decades of British colonial rule, and the leading role played by Sir Alladi in drafting the Constitution of India. Then follows the incredible saga of his creation of MATSCIENCE, The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, in Madras, inspired by his visit to the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, and the result of a Theoretical Physics Seminar which he organized in his family home Ekamra Nivas in Madras, which received the endorsement of Nobel Laureate Niels Bohr, and the support of India's Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru.Part II covers the period of Ramakrishnan's term as Director of MATSCIENCE, and his visits to about 200 centres of learning the world over, where he interacted with leading scientists and lectured on his research in the fields of Probability, Stochastic Processes, Elementary Particle Physics, Matrix Theory, and on his novel treatment of Einstein's Special Relativity. Historical photos, letters, and documents of special interest are included.

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING JEREMY IRONS AND DEV PATEL!<BR> <BR>A moving and enlightening look at the unbelievable true story of how gifted prodigy Ramanujan stunned the scholars of Cambridge University and revolutionized mathematics.<BR><BR>In 1913, a young unschooled Indian clerk wrote a letter to G H Hardy, begging the preeminent English mathematician's opinion on several ideas he had about numbers. Realizing the letter was the work of a genius, Hardy arranged for Srinivasa Ramanujan to come to England.<BR> <BR>Thus began one of the most improbable and productive collaborations ever chronicled. With a passion for rich and evocative detail, Robert Kanigel takes us from the temples and slums of Madras to the courts and chapels of Cambridge University, where the devout Hindu Ramanujan, "the Prince of Intuition," tested his brilliant theories alongside the sophisticated and eccentric Hardy, "the Apostle of Proof."<BR> <BR>In time, Ramanujan's creative intensity took its toll: he died at the age of thirty-two, but left behind a magical and inspired legacy that is still being plumbed for its secrets today.

Im Jahr 2000 wurde eine Liste mit sieben Rätseln der Mathematik veröffentlicht, mit einem Preisgeld von jeweils einer Million US-Dollar. Eines dieser berühmten 'Millennium-Probleme' war der Beweis der Poincaré-Vermutung, an dem sich bereits die klügsten Köpfe die Zähne ausgebissen hatten. 2002 wurde der Beweis erbracht - von Grigori Jakowlewitsch 'Grischa' Perelman, einem exzentrischen russisch-jüdischen Mathematiker. Aber Perelman lehnte ab - nicht nur das Geld, sondern zunehmend auch die Welt. Heute lebt er ohne Festanstellung und völlig zurückgezogen bei seiner Mutter in St. Petersburg. Warum war gerade er in der Lage, das Problem zu lösen - und was ist danach mit ihm geschehen? M. Gessen begibt sich auf Perelmans Spuren, von seinen Anfängen als Wunderkind bis zu seinem Rückzug. Nach und nach entsteht das Bild eines Mannes, dessen fast übermenschliche gedankliche Strenge ihn zu mathematischen Höchstleistungen befähigt, aber auch immer stärker von der Welt entfremdet.

A stunning, globe-spanning journey through the beauty and power of mathematics <BR><BR> “Powerful, passionate, and inspiring.” —New York Times  <BR><BR> A New York Times Bestseller <BR><BR> What if you had to take an art class in which you were only taught how to paint a fence? What if you were never shown the paintings of van Gogh and Picasso, weren't even told they existed? Alas, this is how math is taught, and so for most of us it becomes the intellectual equivalent of watching paint dry.<BR><BR> In Love and Math, renowned mathematician Edward Frenkel reveals a side of math we've never seen, suffused with all the beauty and elegance of a work of art. In this heartfelt and passionate book, Frenkel shows that mathematics, far from occupying a specialist niche, goes to the heart of all matter, uniting us across cultures, time, and space.<BR><BR>Love and Math tells two intertwined stories: of the wonders of mathematics and of one young man's journey learning and living it. Having braved a discriminatory educational system to become one of the twenty-first century's leading mathematicians, Frenkel now works on one of the biggest ideas to come out of math in the last 50 years: the Langlands Program. Considered by many to be a Grand Unified Theory of mathematics, the Langlands Program enables researchers to translate findings from one field to another so that they can solve problems, such as Fermat's last theorem, that had seemed intractable before.<BR><BR> At its core, Love and Math is a story about accessing a new way of thinking, which can enrich our lives and empower us to better understand the world and our place in it. It is an invitation to discover the magic hidden universe of mathematics.

A tre anni Simon Norton costruiva piramidi di moltiplicazioni; a cinque giocava con la tabellina del 91. Poi vennero risultati sbalorditivi in tutti gli ordini di scuole fino al Trinity College di Cambridge, e infine l'ingresso nell'équipe del professor Conway, impegnata a tracciare i confini dell'Atlante dei gruppi finiti - una delle più grandi pubblicazioni matematiche della seconda metà del secolo scorso. Nel 1985 il trentatreenne Norton ebbe - a quel che si dice - un "catastrofico crollo intellettuale", dovuto al primo errore di calcolo della sua vita, e da allora è scomparso dall'accademia. Vent'anni dopo, lo scrittore e illustratore Alexander Masters vive a Cambridge: il suo padrone di casa abita nel seminterrato ed è un tizio grosso, buffo e trasandato che si chiama Simon. Simon vive fra "stalagmiti di orari degli autobus" e cataste di sacchetti di plastica, si abbuffa di filetti di sgombro, compila un bollettino sui trasporti pubblici, e ogni tanto ripensa al "Mostro", una branca della teoria dei gruppi che potrebbe assomigliare a una griglia di sudoku - solo che invece di nove colonne ne ha 808.017.424.794.512.875.886.459.904.961.710.757.005.754.368.000.000.000. Ma Un genio nello scantinato non è affatto la storia del fallimento di un ragazzo prodigio: Norton è l'unico a non piangere sul suo talento perduto. Fa pensare piuttosto a una serie di cartoline spedite da un paese lontano senza la pretesa di giudicare e comprendere tutto. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.

'I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.'It was with these words, written in the 1630s, that Pierre de Fermat intrigued and infuriated the mathematics community. For over 350 years, proving Fermat's Last Theorem was the most notorious unsolved mathematical problem, a puzzle whose basics most children could grasp but whose solution eluded the greatest minds in the world. In 1993, after years of secret toil, Englishman Andrew Wiles announced to an astounded audience that he had cracked Fermat's Last Theorem. He had no idea of the nightmare that lay ahead.In 'Fermat's Last Theorem' Simon Singh has crafted a remarkable tale of intellectual endeavour spanning three centuries, and a moving testament to the obsession, sacrifice and extraordinary determination of Andrew Wiles: one man against all the odds.

A Beautiful Mind is Sylvia Nasar''s award-winning biography about the mystery of the human mind, the triumph over incredible adversity, and the healing power of love.<BR><BR>At the age of thirty-one, John Nash, mathematical genius, suffered a devastating breakdown and was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Yet after decades of leading a ghost-like existence, he was to re-emerge to win a Nobel Prize and world acclaim. A Beautiful Mind has inspired the Oscar-winning film directed by Ron Howard and featuring Russell Crowe in the lead role of John Nash.