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Engineering Studies Serie de eBooks

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  • Cultures of Prediction

    How Engineering and Science Evolve with Mathematical Tools

    de Ann Johnson, Johannes Lenhard ...
    Series series Engineering Studies
    A probing examination of the dynamic history of predictive methods and values in science and engineering that helps us better understand today’s cultures of prediction.The ability to make reliable predictions based on robust and replicable methods is a defining feature of the scientific endeavor, allowing engineers to determine whether a building will stand up or where a cannonball will strike. ... Leer más

    $31.99 USD

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  • The Blind Spot

    Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience

    de Adam Frank, Marcelo Gleiser, Evan Thompson ...
    A compelling argument for including the human perspective within science, and for how human experience makes science possible.“This is by far the best book I've read this year.”—Michael Pollan, Professor of the Practice of Non-fiction, Harvard University; #1 New York Times bestselling author“(A) stimulating manifesto for changing the way we look at things.”—Wall Street JournalIt’s tem... ... Leer más

    $17.99 USD

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  • The Sciences of the Artificial, third edition

    de Herbert A. Simon ...
    Continuing his exploration of the organization of complexity and the science of design, this new edition of Herbert Simon's classic work on artificial intelligence adds a chapter that sorts out the current themes and tools—chaos, adaptive systems, genetic algorithms—for analyzing complexity and complex systems. There are updates throughout the book as well. These take into account important ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation

    Why Physicists Are Studying Human Consciousness and AI to Unravel the Mysteries of the Universe

    de George Musser ...
    “This is a delightful account of one of the deepest and most fascinating explorations going on today at the frontier of our knowledge.” —Carlo Rovelli, bestselling author of The Order of Time and Seven Brief Lessons on Physics**“Musser knows that the point of popular science is [. . .] to get a sense of what’s at stake, what kinds of answers are being offered to difficult questions, and why it all ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • Proving Darwin

    Making Biology Mathematical

    de Gregory Chaitin ...
    Groundbreaking mathematician Gregory Chaitin gives us the first book to posit that we can prove how Darwin’s theory of evolution works on a mathematical level.For years it has been received wisdom among most scientists that, just as Darwin claimed, all of the Earth’s life-forms evolved by blind chance. But does Darwin’s theory function on a purely mathematical level? Has there been enough time for ... Leer más

    Antes $9.99 USD Ahora $6.99 USD

  • The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011

    Edición de Mircea Pitici ...
    Series series The Best Writing on Mathematics
    The year's finest writing on mathematics from around the worldThis anthology brings together the year's finest mathematics writing from around the world. Featuring promising new voices alongside some of the foremost names in the field, The Best Writing on Mathematics 2011 makes available to a wide audience many articles not easily found anywhere else—and you don't need to be a mathematician to ... Leer más

    $14.39 USD

  • Gravity's Ghost and Big Dog

    Scientific Discovery and Social Analysis in the Twenty-First Century

    de Harry Collins ...
    "In part an account of sociological fieldwork among scientists in the field and part astronomy-history mystery. . . . a terrific read." — NatureGravity's Ghost and Big Dog brings to life science's efforts to detect cosmic gravitational waves. These ripples in space-time are predicted by general relativity, and their discovery will not only demonstrate the truth of Einstein's theories but also ... Leer más

    $24.49 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Sciences of the Artificial, reissue of the third edition with a new introduction by John Laird

    de Herbert A. Simon ...
    Herbert Simon's classic work on artificial intelligence in the expanded and updated third edition from 1996, with a new introduction by John E. Laird.Herbert Simon's classic and influential The Sciences of the Artificial declares definitively that there can be a science not only of natural phenomena but also of what is artificial. Exploring the commonalities of artificial systems, including ... Leer más

    $29.99 USD

  • Understanding Beliefs

    de Nils J. Nilsson ...
    Series series The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series
    What beliefs are, what they do for us, how we come to hold them, and how to evaluate them.Our beliefs constitute a large part of our knowledge of the world. We have beliefs about objects, about culture, about the past, and about the future. We have beliefs about other people, and we believe that they have beliefs as well. We use beliefs to predict, to explain, to create, to console, to entertain. ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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  • Hawking Incorporated

    Stephen Hawking and the Anthropology of the Knowing Subject

    de Hélène Mialet ...
    These days, the idea of the cyborg is less the stuff of science fiction and more a reality, as we are all, in one way or another, constantly connected, extended, wired, and dispersed in and through technology. One wonders where the individual, the person, the human, and the body are—or, alternatively, where they stop. These are the kinds of questions Hélène Mialet explores in this fascinating ... Leer más

    $18.79 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Plato and the Nerd

    The Creative Partnership of Humans and Technology

    de Edward Ashford Lee ...
    How humans and technology evolve together in a creative partnership.In this book, Edward Ashford Lee makes a bold claim: that the creators of digital technology have an unsurpassed medium for creativity. Technology has advanced to the point where progress seems limited not by physical constraints but the human imagination. Writing for both literate technologists and numerate humanists, Lee makes a ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • A Brief History of Mathematics for Curious Minds

    de Krzysztof R Apt ...
    This book offers a short and accessible account of the history of mathematics, written for the intelligent layman to gain a better appreciation of its beauty, relevance, and place in history. It traces the development of the subject throughout the centuries, starting with the so-called Lebombo bone, the oldest known mathematical object that was estimated to be at least 43,000 years old, and ending ... Leer más

    $26.99 USD