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Infinitesimal

How a Dangerous Mathematical Theory Shaped the Modern World

de Amir Alexander ...

Pulsing with drama and excitement, Infinitesimal celebrates the spirit of discovery, innovation, and intellectual achievement-and it will forever change the way you look at a simple line.On August 10, 1632, five men in flowing black robes convened in a somber Roman palazzo to pass judgment on a deceptively simple proposition: that a continuous line is composed of distinct and infinitely tiny parts ... Leer más

$14.39 USD

Pulsing with drama and excitement, Infinitesimal celebrates the spirit of discovery, innovation, and intellectual achievement-and it will forever change the way you look at a simple line.On August 10, 1632, five men in flowing black robes convened in a somber Roman palazzo to pass judgment on a deceptively simple proposition: that a continuous line is composed of distinct and infinitely tiny parts
... Leer más
Proof!

How the World Became Geometrical

de Amir Alexander ...

A "lucid and convincingly argued" narrative of how ancient geometric principles continue to shape the contemporary world ( Publishers Weekly).On a cloudy day in 1413, a balding young man stood at the entrance to the Cathedral of Florence, facing the ancient Baptistery across the piazza. As puzzled passers-by looked on, he raised a small painting to his face, then held a mirror in front of the ... Leer más

$20.19 USD

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A "lucid and convincingly argued" narrative of how ancient geometric principles continue to shape the contemporary world ( Publishers Weekly).On a cloudy day in 1413, a balding young man stood at the entrance to the Cathedral of Florence, facing the ancient Baptistery across the piazza. As puzzled passers-by looked on, he raised a small painting to his face, then held a mirror in front of the
... Leer más

Disponible también en: Audiolibro
Liberty's Grid

A Founding Father, a Mathematical Dreamland, and the Shaping of America

de Amir Alexander ...

The surprising history behind a ubiquitous facet of the United States: the gridded landscape.Seen from an airplane, much of the United States appears to be a gridded land of startling uniformity. Perpendicular streets and rectangular fields, all precisely measured and perfectly aligned, turn both urban and rural America into a checkerboard landscape that stretches from horizon to horizon. In ... Leer más

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The surprising history behind a ubiquitous facet of the United States: the gridded landscape.Seen from an airplane, much of the United States appears to be a gridded land of startling uniformity. Perpendicular streets and rectangular fields, all precisely measured and perfectly aligned, turn both urban and rural America into a checkerboard landscape that stretches from horizon to horizon. In
... Leer más
Infinitesimal

A teoria matemática que revolucionou o mundo

de Amir Alexander ...

Uma batalha de vida ou morte, com muito mais em jogo do que um obscuro conceito matemático Infinitesimal celebra o espírito de descoberta e de realização intelectual por trás da teoria que se tornaria o alicerce do cálculo e da matemática moderna, mudando para sempre o modo de olharmos para uma simples reta Tal como um thriller, Amir Alexander revive esse capítulo fundamental da história da ... Leer más

$8.99 USD

Uma batalha de vida ou morte, com muito mais em jogo do que um obscuro conceito matemático Infinitesimal celebra o espírito de descoberta e de realização intelectual por trás da teoria que se tornaria o alicerce do cálculo e da matemática moderna, mudando para sempre o modo de olharmos para uma simples reta Tal como um thriller, Amir Alexander revive esse capítulo fundamental da história da
... Leer más
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Proof!

How the World Became Geometrical

de Amir Alexander ...

Narrado por Jonathan Todd Ross ...

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10 hora 47 minutos

An eye-opening narrative of how geometric principles fundamentally shaped our worldOne night in 1661, Nicholas Fouquet, a superintendent under Louis XIV, was arrested. His crime was peculiar: he had dared to construct a grand geometrical garden. In doing so, he violated an irrefutable hierarchy: that geometry, in its perfection, was a testament to divine right. The elegant, symmetrical designs ... Leer más

$19.99 USD

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An eye-opening narrative of how geometric principles fundamentally shaped our worldOne night in 1661, Nicholas Fouquet, a superintendent under Louis XIV, was arrested. His crime was peculiar: he had dared to construct a grand geometrical garden. In doing so, he violated an irrefutable hierarchy: that geometry, in its perfection, was a testament to divine right. The elegant, symmetrical designs
... Leer más

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Finding Zero

A Mathematician’s Odyssey to Uncover the Origins of Numbers

de Amir D. Aczel, Cassandra de Cuir ...

Narrado por Stefan Rudnicki ...

Completo

5 hora 56 minutos

The story of how we got our numbers—told through one mathematician's journey to find zeroThe invention of numerals is perhaps the greatest abstraction the human mind has ever created. Virtually everything in our lives is digital, numerical, or quantified. The story of how and where we got these numerals, which we so depend on, has for thousands of years been shrouded in mystery. Finding Zero is an ... Leer más

$19.99 USD

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The story of how we got our numbers—told through one mathematician's journey to find zeroThe invention of numerals is perhaps the greatest abstraction the human mind has ever created. Virtually everything in our lives is digital, numerical, or quantified. The story of how and where we got these numerals, which we so depend on, has for thousands of years been shrouded in mystery. Finding Zero is an
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Evolutions

Fifteen Myths That Explain Our World

de Oren Harman ...

Narrado por Oren Harman ...

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5 hora 49 minutos

We don't think anymore, like the ancient Chinese did, that the world was hatched from an egg, or, like the Maori, that it came from the tearing apart of a love embrace. The Greeks told of a tempestuous Hera and a cunning Zeus, but we now use genes and natural selection to explain fear and desire, and physics to demystify the workings of the universe.Evolutions brings to life the latest scientific ... Leer más

$19.99 USD

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We don't think anymore, like the ancient Chinese did, that the world was hatched from an egg, or, like the Maori, that it came from the tearing apart of a love embrace. The Greeks told of a tempestuous Hera and a cunning Zeus, but we now use genes and natural selection to explain fear and desire, and physics to demystify the workings of the universe.Evolutions brings to life the latest scientific
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Fire and Light

How the Enlightenment Transformed Our World

de James MacGregor Burns ...

Narrado por Norman Dietz ...

Completo

14 hora 33 minutos

In this engaging history, James MacGregor Burns brings to vivid life the two-hundred-year conflagration of the Enlightenment, during which audacious questions and astonishing ideas tore across Europe and the New World, transforming thought, bringing down governments, and inspiring visionary political experiments that would ultimately reach every corner of the globe. Unlike most historians, Burns ... Leer más

$19.99 USD

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In this engaging history, James MacGregor Burns brings to vivid life the two-hundred-year conflagration of the Enlightenment, during which audacious questions and astonishing ideas tore across Europe and the New World, transforming thought, bringing down governments, and inspiring visionary political experiments that would ultimately reach every corner of the globe. Unlike most historians, Burns
... Leer más

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The Buried Book

The Loss and Rediscovery of the Great Epic of Gilgamesh

de David Damrosch ...

Narrado por William Hughes ...

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7 hora 23 minutos

Etched in the wedge-shaped letters known as cuneiform on clay tablets, the Epic of Gilgamesh stands as the earliest classic of world literature. Its earliest surviving fragments date back to the eighteenth century BC, more than 3,700 years ago. In The Buried Book, David Damrosch tells the story of George Smith, a self-taught linguist, who one momentous afternoon in 1872 was working at the British ... Leer más

$16.99 USD

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Etched in the wedge-shaped letters known as cuneiform on clay tablets, the Epic of Gilgamesh stands as the earliest classic of world literature. Its earliest surviving fragments date back to the eighteenth century BC, more than 3,700 years ago. In The Buried Book, David Damrosch tells the story of George Smith, a self-taught linguist, who one momentous afternoon in 1872 was working at the British
... Leer más

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Audiolibro

God, War, and Providence

The Epic Struggle of Roger Williams and the Narragansett Indians against the Puritans of New England

de James A. Warren ...

Narrado por Bob Souer ...

Completo

7 hora 31 minutos

A devout Puritan minister in seventeenth-century New England, Roger Williams was also a social critic, diplomat, theologian, and politician who fervently believed in tolerance. Banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635, Williams purchased land from the Narragansett Indians and laid the foundations for the colony of Rhode Island as a place where Indian and English cultures could flourish side ... Leer más

$24.99 USD

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A devout Puritan minister in seventeenth-century New England, Roger Williams was also a social critic, diplomat, theologian, and politician who fervently believed in tolerance. Banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1635, Williams purchased land from the Narragansett Indians and laid the foundations for the colony of Rhode Island as a place where Indian and English cultures could flourish side
... Leer más

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The Philosophy Cure

Lessons on Living from the Great Philosophers

de Laurence Devillairs ...

Narrado por Josh Bloomberg ...

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5 hora 14 minutos

The wisdom of famous philosophers distilled into practical takeaways for modern listeners.For centuries, philosophers have considered the “big questions” of human life, mulling over everything from ethics to the definition of reality. Their ideas and insights are powerful and innovative, but often inaccessible and far too academic for most listeners.In The Philosophy Cure: Lessons on Living from ... Leer más

$19.99 USD

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The wisdom of famous philosophers distilled into practical takeaways for modern listeners.For centuries, philosophers have considered the “big questions” of human life, mulling over everything from ethics to the definition of reality. Their ideas and insights are powerful and innovative, but often inaccessible and far too academic for most listeners.In The Philosophy Cure: Lessons on Living from
... Leer más

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Perception

How Our Bodies Shape Our Minds

de Dennis Proffitt, Drake Baer ...

Narrado por Angela Dawe ...

Completo

7 hora 13 minutos

A groundbreaking popular psychology book that explores the deep connection between our body and our brain.Over decades of study, University of Virginia psychologist Dennis Proffitt has shown that we are each living our own personal version of Gulliver’s Travels, where the size and shape of the things we see are scaled to the size of our bodies, and our ability to interact with them. Stairs look ... Leer más

$22.99 USD

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A groundbreaking popular psychology book that explores the deep connection between our body and our brain.Over decades of study, University of Virginia psychologist Dennis Proffitt has shown that we are each living our own personal version of Gulliver’s Travels, where the size and shape of the things we see are scaled to the size of our bodies, and our ability to interact with them. Stairs look
... Leer más

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