Amir D. Aczel Knihy

Matematici bývají vykreslováni jako podivíni, se kterými se člověk moc nepobaví, protože žijí ve vlastním myšlenkovém světě. Amir Aczel tuto veskrze mylnou představu vyvrací. Na pozadí pět tisíc let dlouhého příběhu matematiky vypráví pozoruhodné osudy myslitelů, kteří svými objevy významně přispěli k rozvoji přírodovědného poznání – od „kupeckých počtů“ po složité a hluboké teorie, bez nichž se moderní civilizace závislá na vyspělých technologiích neobejde. Ačkoliv jména jako Newton, Descartes, Eukleides, Fermat či Leibniz vzbuzují v mnoha lidech až posvátnou úctu, autor ukazuje, že tito velikáni vědy byli běžnými smrtelníky a podléhali nejrůznějším vášním i slabostem. V historii matematiky tak narazíme na střelecké souboje, spiknutí, hrdinské činy, tajné spolky, zločiny, vzájemné nevraživosti i milostné aféry. Životní příběhy velkých matematiků byly pestré, často dramatické, někdy opravdu divoké. Jedno však měli společné: hnala je touha po poznání.

Identita geniálního francouzského matematika Nicolase Bourbakiho, autora rozsáhlé řady monografií, které významně ovlivnily vývoj moderní matematiky a její výuky ve dvacátém století, byla vždy opředena závojem tajemství. Zasvěcení znali skutečnost, mnozí tušili nějakou čertovinu, ostatní dodnes věří tomu, že Bourbaki je člověk z masa a kostí. Z určitého pohledu měli pravdu všichni. Vždyť je tu jeho úctyhodné dílo, byl ctihodným členem jisté Akademie věd, zval přátele na svatbu své dcery A lze tvrdit, že na světě dnes není matematik, kterého by Bourbakiho klíčové dílo neovlivnilo.

Celebrated mathematician Amir D Aczel sets his sights on the probability theory - the branch of mathematics that measures the likelihood of a random event. What is commonly called 'luck' has mathematical roots - and in Aczel's capable hands readers learn to increase their odds of success in everything from true love to the stock market.

Will the Large Hadron Collider at CERN yield the long-awaited discovery of the Higgs boson, the last experimentally unconfirmed particle of the Standard Model, whose prediction is one of the greatest challenges of 20th-century theoretical physics? Will hidden dimensions of spacetime, as proposed by string theory, be found? Will we understand the nature of the mysterious dark matter that constitutes over 90% of the universe's mass? This book, authored by one of the best contemporary science communicators, guides us step by step through the adventure of an experiment that promises to satisfy the curiosity of anyone who agrees with Albert Einstein's sentiment: “I want to know God's thoughts – the rest are details.”

Can two particles become inextricably linked, so that a change in one is instantly reflected in its counterpart, even if a universe separates them? Albert Einstein's work suggested it was possible, but it was too bizarre, and too contrary to how we then understood space and time, for him to prove. No one could. Until now. Entanglement tells the astounding story of the scientists who set out to complete Einstein's work. With accesible language and a highly entertaining tone, Amir Aczel shows us a world where the improbable—from unbreakable codes to teleportation—becomes possible.

Provides a close-up study of seventeenth-century French scholar Pierre de Fermat, the centuries-long effort to prove his theorem, and the work of Andrew Wiles, a Princeton researcher who ultimately came up with the solution. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo. Tour. IP.

The narrative centers on Georg Cantor, a pioneering mathematician who developed set theory and introduced the revolutionary idea of infinite numbers. His work, particularly the continuum hypothesis, posed significant challenges to established mathematical principles. The book includes illustrations that enhance the exploration of Cantor's groundbreaking contributions and the impact of his ideas on the field of mathematics.

For thousands of years, it was the visionaries and writers who argued that we cannot be alone-that there is intellegent life in the universe. Now, with the discoveries of the Hubble Telescope, data emerging from Mars, and knowledge about life at the extremes, scientists are taking up where they left off. Amir Aczel, author of Fermat's Last Theorem, pulls together everyting science has discovered, and mixes in proabability theory, to argure the case for the existence of intelligent life beyond this planet. Probability 1 is an extraordinary tour de force in which the author draws on cosmology, math, and biology to tell the rollicking good story of scientists tackling important scientific questions that help answer this fundamental question. What is the probability of intelligent life in the universe? Read this book, and you'll be convinced, by the power of the argument and the excitement of the science.

Sometimes it pays to be in the right place at the right time. Certainly the mariners in Amalfi in the twelfth century were. Here the compass was first invented and used in navigation, eventually helping to make Italians the world's greatest sailors. But the story of the compass is shrouded in mystery and myth. It begins in ancient China around the birth of Christ. A mysterious lodestone whose powers affected metal was known to the Emperor. This piece of metal suspended in water always pointed north and was put to excellent use in feng shui, the Chinese art of finding the right location. However, it was the Italians who unleashed the compass's formidable powers on ships at sea. Throughout the ancient world, sailors navigated by wind, and stars, and the routes of migrating birds, but bad weather and winter storms impeded their travels. When the compass migrated to Italy, the modern world began: Venice, trade with the East, the Age of Discovery. The compass made it all possible, and this is its fascinating story.

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ist in den USA einer der populärsten Science-Writer. Er ist Autor des internationalen Bestsellers «Fermats dunkler Raum» und lehrt als Mathematiker und Professor für Statistik am Bentley College in Wattham, Massachusetts. Lebt mit Frau und Tochter in der Nähe von Boston. Bei science sind erschienen: «Probability 1. Warum es intelligentes Leben im All geben muss» (rororo 60931), «Die göttliche Formel» (60935) und «Die Natur der Unendlichkeit» (61358). Hainer Kober, geboren 1942, lebt in Soltau. Er hat u. a. Werke von Stephen Hawking, Steven Pinker, Jonathan Littell, Georges Simenon und Oliver Sacks übersetzt.