Physics and Mathematics: Collaboration, Contradiction, and the Quest for Truth:Physics and mathematics, twin pillars of human understanding, have built our greatest theories and deepest paradoxes. From Newton’s laws to Einstein’s spacetime, from quantum mechanics to string theory, their partnership has revealed profound insights while exposing sharp contradictions.But what happens when mathematics speaks a language nature doesn’t obey? Or when physics demands answers no formu...

When Artificial Intelligence Decides.The world isn’t ending. It’s improving.Traffic flows. Markets stabilize. Conflicts dissolve before they ignite. A global artificial intelligence system, Nexus has optimized civilization.It predicts! It corrects!! It decides!!! And it is never wrong.But when Nexus begins overriding human hesitation in the name of efficiency, four students from IIT Delhi uncover a dangerous truth.The system no longer requires permis...

In a world where machines are beginning to think for themselves, who decides what’s right?Moral Code: Ethics at the Heart of AI is a call to conscience in the age of algorithms. From biased systems and data surveillance to generative intelligence and autonomous weapons, author Govind Pathak explores how our choices today will define the soul of tomorrow’s technology.Blending stories, ideas, and human insight, this book reimagines a future where innovation serves humanity no...

The Crypto BlueprintWhere technology meets trust, and finance meets the futureThe global financial system is being rewritten line by line in blockchain code.

In the beginning, there was wonder.Before mathematics had its symbols and before physics had its laws, humanity looked up at the stars and asked the oldest questions: What is this universe? Why does it behave the way it does? What governs the rising sun, the falling apple, or the arc of a thrown spear?Out of this awe, two great languages of understanding were born. One used precision and abstraction. The other used observation and experimentation. Mathematics and physics si...

Cosmology is in crisis. The more we discover, the more puzzling the universe appears to be. How and why are the laws of nature what they are? A philosopher and a physicist, world-renowned for their radical ideas in their fields, argue for a revolution. To keep cosmology scientific, we must replace the old view in which the universe is governed by immutable laws by a new one in which laws evolve. Then we can hope to explain them. The revolution that Roberto Mangabeira Unger and Lee Smolin p...

Artificial intelligence will not create superintelligence anytime soon. But it is already making huge advances—revolutionizing medicine and transport, transforming jobs and markets, and reshaping the fabric of social life. At the same time, the promises of AI have been increasingly overshadowed by its perils, from automation and disinformation to powerful new forms of bias and surveillance. Reckoning with these threats to work, democracy, and justice, Redesigning AI asks what can ...

The second edition of A First Course in Integral Equations integrates the newly developed methods with classical techniques to give modern and robust approaches for solving integral equations. The manual accompanying this edition contains solutions to all exercises with complete step-by-step details. To interested readers trying to master the concepts and powerful techniques, this manual is highly useful, focusing on the readers' needs and expectations. It contains the same notations used ...

A user’s guide to navigating the intricate, often contradictory relationship between artificial intelligence and human intelligenceArtificial intelligence will shape our future in unforeseen ways, and it is easy to fall into the trap of thinking that it could someday dictate the terms of our very existence. But the fact is, the more that AI can do, the more it underscores the irreplaceable qualities of human creativity, empathy, and moral reasoning. This is one of ...

The author of Doing Mathematics explores the concepts of physics by demonstrating how physicists think and approach their work.Doing Physics makes concepts of physics easier to grasp by relating them to everyday knowledge. Addressing some of the models and metaphors that physicists use to explain the physical world, Martin H. Krieger describes the conceptual world of physics by means of analogies to economics, anthropology, theater, carpentry, mechanical s...

How to build a flourishing society by using what we know about human nature to design our technology—rather than let technology shape our society.In Shared Wisdom, Alex Pentland delves into the history of innovation, emphasizing the importance of understanding how technologies and cultural inventions impact human society. Humanity’s great leaps forward—the rise of civilizations, the Enlightenment, and the Scientific Revolution—were all propelled by cultura...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has emerged as one of the most transformative technologies of the 21st century. Its rapid development has ushered in a new era of innovation, promising to revolutionize various industries, from healthcare to finance. AI has the potential to solve complex problems, improve efficiency, and enhance our lives in ways we could only dream of a few decades ago