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A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash

A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash

by Sylvia Nasar

How could you, a mathematician, believe that extraterrestrials were sending you messages?" the visitor from Harvard asked the West Virginian with the movie-star looks and Olympian manner. "Because the ideas I had about supernatural beings came to me the same way my mathematical ideas did," came the answer. "So I took them seriously." Thus begins the true story of John Nash, the mathematical genius who... (more)

Einstein: His Life and Universe

by Walter Isaacson

By the author of the acclaimed bestseller Benjamin Franklin, this is the first full biography of Albert Einstein since all of his papers have become available. How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson's biography shows how the imagination that distinguished his science sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. His fascinating story, a testament to the connection between... (more)

Flowers from the Storm

by Laura Kinsale

The Duke of Jervaulx was brilliant -- and dangerous. Considered dissolute, reckless, and extravagant, he was transparently referred to as the "D of J" in scandal sheets. But sometimes the most womanizing rakehell can be irresistible, and even his most casual attentions fascinated the sheltered Maddy Timms. Then one fateful day she receives the shocking news -- the duke is lost to the world. And Maddy knows it... (more)

Dynamical Systems in Neuroscience: The Geometry of Excitability and Bursting (Computational Neuroscience)

Dynamical Systems in Neuroscience: The Geometry of Excitability and Bursting (Computational Neuroscience)

by Eugene M. Izhikevich

In order to model neuronal behavior or to interpret the results of modeling studies, neuroscientists must call upon methods of nonlinear dynamics. This book offers an introduction to nonlinear dynamical systems theory for researchers and graduate students in neuroscience. It also provides an overview of neuroscience for mathematicians who want to learn the basic facts of electrophysiology. Dynamical Systems... (more)

Codebreaker: The History of Codes and Ciphers

Codebreaker: The History of Codes and Ciphers

by Stephen Pincock

From the time of the ancient pharaohs to the modern world of Internet banking, civilization has relied on codes and ciphers to keep its secrets. The 4,000-year history of cryptography has been a kind of arms race: Each time a more complex encryption has been developed, it has been attacked and, more often than not, decoded; and each time, in response, codemakers have produced tougher and tougher codes. ... (more)

A Piece of the Mountain:The Story of Blaise Pascal

A Piece of the Mountain:The Story of Blaise Pascal

by Joyce Mcpherson

A biography of one of the most important scientists and mathematicians of the 1600's. Not only was he a brilliant scientist, but he was converted to Christianity as an adult and became a devoted apologist for the Christian faith. Of special interest to home schooling families, this book recounts the recognition by Pascal's father of his remarkable talents and the provisions he made for his son's education - one of... (more)

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 19: Proceedings of the 2006 Conference (Bradford Books)

Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems 19: Proceedings of the 2006 Conference (Bradford Books)

The annual Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) conference is the flagship meeting on neural computation and machine learning. It draws a diverse group of attendees—physicists, neuroscientists, mathematicians, statisticians, and computer scientists—interested in theoretical and applied aspects of modeling, simulating, and building neural-like or intelligent systems. The presentations are interdisciplinary,... (more)

The 351 Books of Irma Arcuri: A Novel

by David Bajo

Metaphysical literary suspense from a compelling new voice in fiction For most of his adult life—through two marriages and countless travels—the mathematician Philip Mazyrk has carried on a love affair with Irma Arcuri. Now Irma has vanished and left Philip her entire library of 351 books, five of them written by Irma herself. Buried in the text of this library—Cervantes to Turgenyev, Borges to Fowles—lay the... (more)

Scientists

Metro Books: All over the globe, in every field, scientists have used experimental methods to explore and verify theories ranging from evolution to general relativity. Beginning with the Ancients, through the pioneers of the Scientific Revolution, to the remarkable and increasingly specialized scientists of the modern era, they have inspired legions of followers, some have generated fear, and many have... (more)

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