There he is blown away to find the earliest zero―the keystone of our entire system of numbers―on a crumbling, vine-covered wall of a seventh-century temple adorned with eaten-away erotic sculptures. Melia publishing services. Virtually everything in our lives is digital, numerical, or quantified. Here, he takes the reader along for the ride.
The history begins with the early Babylonian cuneiform numbers, followed by the later Greek and Roman letter numerals. Then aczel asks the key question: where do the numbers we use today, Thailand, the so-called Hindu-Arabic numerals, come from? It is this search that leads him to explore uncharted territory, to go on a grand quest into India, Vietnam, Laos, and ultimately into the wilds of Cambodia.
While on this odyssey, surprisingly honest politicians, Aczel meets a host of fascinating characters: academics in search of truth, shameless smugglers, jungle trekkers looking for adventure, and treacherous archaeological thieves―who finally reveal where our numbers come from. Aczel has doggedly crisscrossed the ancient world, scouring dusty, cross examining so-called scholars who offered wildly differing sets of facts, moldy texts, and ultimately penetrating deep into a Cambodian jungle to find a definitive proof.
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Fermat's Last Theorem
Revealing the hidden mathematical order of the natural world in everything from stars to sunflowers, Fermat's Last Theorem brilliantly combines philosophy and hard science with investigative journalism. From formulas devised from the farmers of ancient Babylonia to the dramatic proof of Fermat's theorem in 1993, this extraordinary work takes us along on an exhilarating intellectual treasure hunt.
For others it was an obsession that led to deceit, intrigue, or insanity. Simple, elegant, and utterly impossible to prove, Fermat's last theorem captured the imaginations of mathematicians for more than three centuries. In a volume filled with the clues, red herrings, and suspense of a mystery novel, Amir D.
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God's Equation: Einstein, Relativity, and the Expanding Universe
The most compelling theory cosmologists could find to explain this phenomenon was Einstein's cosmological constant, a theory he conceived--and rejected-over eighty years ago. Amir aczel, critically acclaimed author of Fermat's Last Theorem, takes us into the heart of science's greatest mystery. In january 1998, astronomers found evidence that the cosmos is expanding at an ever-increasing rate.
The way we perceive the universe was changed forever. Used book in Good Condition. Awesome in scope, thrilling in detail, God's Equation is storytelling at its finest. Here the unthinkable becomes real: an infinite, ever-expanding, ever-accelerating universe whose only absolute is the speed of light. Are we on the verge of solving the riddle of creation using Einstein's "greatest blunder"?In a work that is at once lucid, exhilarating and profound, renowned mathematician Dr.
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Why Science Does Not Disprove God
Based on interviews with eleven nobel prize winners and many other prominent physicists, as well as leading theologians and spiritual leaders, anthropologists, and psychologists, biologists, Why Science Does Not Disprove God is a "well-informed and readable" Wall Street Journal analysis of the religious implications of our ever-increasing understanding of life and the universe.
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The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity
. A compelling narrative that blends a story of infinity with the tagic tale of a tormented and brilliant mathematician. Buy with confidence! Millions of books sold! William Morrow Paperbacks. Used book in Good Condition. From the end of the ninteenth century until his death, one of history's greatest mathematicians languished in an asylum, driven mad by an almost Faustian thirst for universal knowledge.
Notes: brand new from publisher! 100% satisfaction guarantee. Aczel follows Cantor's life and traces the roots of his enigmatic theories. From the pythagoreans, the greek cult of mathematics, to the mystical Jewish numerology found in the Kabbalah, The Mystery Of The Aleph follows the search for an answer that may never truly be trusted.
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The Riddle of the Compass: The Invention that Changed the World
In amalfi sometime in the twelfth century, the compass was born, crowning the Italians as the new rulers of the seas and heralding the onset of the modern world. Retracing the roots of the compass and sharing the fascinating story of navigation through the ages, The Riddle of the Compass is Aczel at his most entertaining and insightful.
Notes: brand new from publisher! 100% satisfaction guarantee. However, more than a thousand years later, it was the Italians, who discovered the ultimate destiny of the lodestone and unleashed its formidable powers. Buy with confidence! Millions of books sold! The story of the compass is shrouded in mystery and myth, yet most will agree it begins around the time of the birth of Christ in ancient China.
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Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea
Popular math at its most entertaining and enlightening. William Morrow Paperbacks. Here are the legendary thinkers—from pythagoras to Newton to Heisenberg, mathematics, from the Kabalists to today's astrophysicists—who have tried to understand it and whose clashes shook the foundations of philosophy, science, and religion.
Notes: brand new from publisher! 100% satisfaction guarantee. For centuries the power of zero savored of the demonic; once harnessed, it became the most important tool in mathematics. Penguin Books. Buy with confidence! Millions of books sold! It is both nothing and everything. In zero, its rise and transcendence in the west, science Journalist Charles Seife follows this innocent-looking number from its birth as an Eastern philosophical concept to its struggle for acceptance in Europe, and its ever-present threat to modern physics.
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ETA Hand2Mind Cuisenaire Rods, Set of 74 Plastic Rods
Plastic rods are easy to clean and store. Single pack of 74 Cuisenaire Rods. Penguin Books. Condition: New. Used book in Good Condition. Tracking provided on most orders. William Morrow Paperbacks. Isbn13: 9780743422994. Cuisenaire rods help students relate abstract ideas about numbers and shapes to something students can see and touch.
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Customs of Cambodia - Zhou Daguan
Notes: brand new from publisher! 100% satisfaction guarantee. Condition: New. In 1296 ad, chinese traveler zhou daguan visited Angkor-capital of Cambodia's powerful Khmer Empire-as a member of a diplomatic mission sent by Emperor Temur Khan. Isbn13: 9780743422994. Penguin Books. Today, zhou's written record of his residency is the only surviving eyewitness account of that extraordinary and mysterious time and place.
Zhou shared intriguing aspects of the country's complex society, religion, blended with subtle details of its customs, flora and fauna. An early translation of zhou's text led him to Cambodia, resulting in his best-selling book "Finding Zero: A Mathematician's Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers.
Used book in Good Condition. This illustrated color edition offers an original translation of one of the earliest records of Zhou's voyage. Based on their personal knowledge of Chinese and Cambodian culture, language and geography, Solang and Beling Uk's insights clarify linguistic puzzles that have been unresolved for centuries.
Pendulum: Leon Foucault and the Triumph of Science
For, and made remarkable deductions about color theory, in addition to offering the first unequivocal proof of Earth's rotation, Foucault gave us the modern electric compass and microscope, heat waves, was a pioneer in photographic technology, and the speed of light. Used book in Good Condition. Isbn13: 9780743422994.
Single pack of 74 Cuisenaire Rods. William Morrow Paperbacks. Notes: brand new from publisher! 100% satisfaction guarantee. Condition: New. He was neither a mathematician nor a trained physicist and yet Léon Foucault always knew that a mysterious force of nature was among us. Buy with confidence! Millions of books sold!
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The Nothing that Is: A Natural History of Zero
Robert kaplan serves up all this history with immense zest and humor; his writing is full of anecdotes and asides, and quotations from Shakespeare to Wallace Stevens extend the book's context far beyond the scope of scientific specialists. He points out how the history of mathematics is a process of recursive abstraction: how once a symbol is created to represent an idea, that symbol itself gives rise to new operations that in turn lead to new ideas.
A symbol for what is not there, an emptiness that increases any number it's added to, an inexhaustible and indispensable paradox. 10 different rod lengths, ranging from 1 cm-10 cm. Remarkably, didn't have a zero--or did they? we follow the trail to the East where, even the Greeks, a millennium or two ago, mathematically brilliant as they were, Indian mathematicians took another crucial step.
A tour de force of science history, The Nothing That Is takes us through the hollow circle that leads to infinity. But where did this nothing, exactly, does it mean? robert kaplan's the nothing that is: A Natural History of Zero begins as a mystery story, taking us back to Sumerian times, and then to Greece and India, this hollow circle, come from? Who created it? And what, piecing together the way the idea of a symbol for nothing evolved.
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