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  • Zero

    The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

    de Charles Seife ...
    A New York Times Notable Book.The Babylonians invented it, the Greeks banned it, the Hindus worshiped it, and the Church used it to fend off heretics. Now it threatens the foundations of modern physics. For centuries the power of zero savored of the demonic; once harnessed, it became the most important tool in mathematics. For zero, infinity's twin, is not like other numbers. It is both nothing ... Leer más

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  • Proofiness

    How You're Being Fooled by the Numbers

    de Charles Seife ...
    The bestselling author of Zero shows how mathematical misinformation pervades-and shapes-our daily lives.According to MSNBC, having a child makes you stupid. You actually lose IQ points. Good Morning America has announced that natural blondes will be extinct within two hundred years. Pundits estimated that there were more than a million demonstrators at a tea party rally in Washington, D.C., even ... Leer más

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  • Hawking Hawking

    The Selling of a Scientific Celebrity

    de Charles Seife ...
    Stephen Hawking was widely recognized as the world's best physicist and even the most brilliant man alive–but what if his true talent was self-promotion?When Stephen Hawking died, he was widely recognized as the world's best physicist, and even its smartest person.He was neither.In Hawking Hawking, science journalist Charles Seife explores how Stephen Hawking came to be thought of as humanity's ... Leer más

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  • Hawking, Hawking

    Tudós, celeb, zseni

    de Charles Seife ...
    Lehetséges, hogy a Stephen Hawkingot körülölelő mítosz csak részben fedi a valóságot, és jó példa a tudatos brandépítésre? Hawking a kozmológia legfontosabb kérdéseit kutatta, és már életében az egyik legbriliánsabb elmének tartották, hírnevét mégsem elsősorban tudományos tevékenységének köszönhette. Mestere volt az önreklámozásnak: partit rendezett az időutazóknak, megünnepelte a győzelmét olyan ... Leer más

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  • Sun in a Bottle

    The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking

    de Charles Seife ...
    With his knack for translating science into understandable, anecdotal prose and his trademark dry humor, award-winning science writer Charles Seife presents the first narrative account of the history of fusion for general readers in more than a decade. Tracing the story from its beginning into the twenty-first century, Sun in a Bottle reveals fusion's explosive role in some of the biggest ... Leer más

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  • Virtual Unreality

    The New Era of Digital Deception

    de Charles Seife ...
    The bestselling author of Proofiness and Zero explains how to separate fact from fantasy in the digital worldDigital information is a powerful tool that spreads unbelievably rapidly, infects all corners of society, and is all but impossible to control—even when that information is actually a lie. In Virtual Unreality, Charles Seife uses the skepticism, wit, and sharp facility for analysis that ... Leer más

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  • Decoding the Universe

    How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everythingin the Cosmos, fromOur Brains to Black Holes

    de Charles Seife ...
    The author of Zero explains the scientific revolution that is transforming the way we understand our worldPreviously the domain of philosophers and linguists, information theory has now moved beyond the province of code breakers to become the crucial science of our time. In Decoding the Universe, Charles Seife draws on his gift for making cutting-edge science accessible to explain how this new ... Leer más

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  • Le menzogne del Web

    Internet e il lato sbagliato dell’informazione

    de Charles Seife ...
    Traducido por Susanna Bourlot ...
    La tanto decantata «democrazia digitale» si situa appena un passo prima della dittatura degli stupidi e dei creduloni. Serve un antidoto, ed è questo che Charles Seife ha voluto scrivere. In tono canzonatorio, irriverente e illuminante, Seife svela i meccanismi delle molte «bufale» che circolano online, analizzandone i meccanismi di propagazione e i punti deboli, per fornire al lettore uno ... Leer más

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  • Alpha and Omega

    The Search for the Beginning and End of the Universe

    de Charles Seife ...
    Humankind has grappled for millennia with the fundamental questions of the origin and end of the universe--it was a focus of ancient religions and myths and of the inquiries of Aristotle, Galileo, Copernicus, Kepler, and Newton. Today we are at the brink of discoveries that should soon reveal the deepest secrets of the universe.Alpha and Omega is a dispatch from the front lines of the cosmological ... Leer más

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  • Zero

    La storia di un'idea pericolosa

    de Charles Seife ...
    Traducido por Gabriele Castellani ...
    Inventato dai babilonesi, venerato dagli indù, bandito dai greci, il numero zero per secoli è stato circondato da un’aura di ambiguità finché, finalmente imbrigliato, è diventato il più importante e potente strumento della matematica. Charles Seife ci offre una brillante descrizione del modo in cui la nozione di zero, con quella gemella di infinito, ha più volte rivoluzionato i fondamenti della ... Leer más

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  • La scoperta dell'universo

    I misteri del cosmo alla luce della teoria dell'informazione

    de Charles Seife ...
    Con la sua capacità di rendere accessibile anche la scienza più all’avanguardia, Charles Seife ci spiega in che modo la teoria dell’informazione è diventata la scienza cruciale dei nostri tempi. Nata con la decifrazione del codice Enigma nella Seconda Guerra mondiale e cresciuta con la rivoluzione dei computer, oggi la teoria dell’informazione è all’avanguardia della fisica teorica. Non solo. Le ... Leer más

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  • Stephen Hawking - Par-delà la légende

    de Charles Seife ...
    Jusqu'à sa mort en mars 2018, Stephen Hawking était l'une des personnalités les plus connues au monde. Confiné dans une chaise roulante, le visage déformé par un rictus figé, il lui était impossible de se déplacer incognito, à supposer qu'il l'ait souhaité.Tout le monde connaissait Hawking, souvent comparé à Einstein ou Newton, comparaison qu'il repoussait avec modestie mais cultivait par ailleurs ... Leer más

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