 |  | | Playing Games in 2D | | | |
| |
| | | | | Celebrated mathematician Martin Gardner is your guide to the planar playground in this eBook collection. For 25 years in his Mathematical Games column, Gardner mixed well-understood topics with the cutting-edge, and here we’ve selected some of Gardner’s best columns set in two dimensions, including games like Hex, geometric puzzles of transforming one shape to another, the physics of a two-dimensional world and more. | | | |
| |
| |
| Martin Gardner: The Magic and Mystery of Numbers | | In our first Martin Gardner eBook collection, we strove to create a different “slice” through his wealth of material. This edition focuses on all flavors of number, from common integers and negative numbers to figurate numbers and the exotic random number, Omega, which can be described but not computed. | .jpg) | | |
| |
| The Rise of Humans | | Of all the species on Earth, why did ours rise to dominance? Previously, scientists thought many uniquely human traits resulted from sudden or brilliant adaptations, but new discoveries point to gradual processes that involve biological and social factors. In this eBook, we examine recent research on the origins of human cognitive abilities, ingenuity, language and culture as well as the advances opening doors to new hypotheses. | | | | |
| |
| The Science of Diet & Exercise | | Updated for 2020. The new edition includes January's cover story, "Why Your Brain Needs Exercise," which looks at the benefits of exercise in an evolutionary context and "Obesity on the Brain," which examines the effects of "ultraprocessed" foods. All eleven articles in this collection present the most recent research examining the details of the metabolic process and testing new approaches, some of which can be applied to how we think about diet and exercise today. . | | | | |
| |
| Secrets of the Brain | | The sense of position and movement is often called the sixth sense; the brain’s connection to the immune system might be a seventh. In this eBook, we examine the diverse functions of the brain beyond the five senses, including the glymphatic system for maintaining brain health, the processes behind intuition and new research raising questions about “brain death.” | | | | |
| |
| A Question of Time | | Is time an illusion? Is time travel possible? Could time end? In this eBook, we take an interdisciplinary look at the fourth dimension, exploring the latest thinking on the nature of time and the ways it dominates our physical and mental worlds. | | | | |
| |
| Mathematics in the 21st Century | | One of the most powerful tools in the science arsenal, mathematics allows scientists across disciplines to test hypotheses about the real world. In this eBook, we look at important recent advances in the field and examine the role of modeling and statistical analysis in understanding biology, physics, politics and more. | | | | |
| |
| |
| |
.jpg){kind=small}
Comments
Post a Comment