Princeton Science Library
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Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today’s Computers
$19.95 Add to cartNine revolutionary algorithms that power our computers and smartphones
Every day, we use our computers to perform remarkable feats. A simple web search picks out a handful of relevant needles from the- Series: Princeton Science Library #116
- Author: Maccormick, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0691209065
- Language: English
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Why Size Matters: From Bacteria to Blue Whales
$16.95 Read moreJohn Tyler Bonner, one of our most distinguished and creative biologists, here offers a completely new perspective on the role of size in biology. In his hallmark friendly style, he explores the unive
- Series: Princeton Science Library #142
- Author: Bonner, John Tyler
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0691254400
- Language: English
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The Logic of Life: A History of Heredity
$20.95 Read more“The most remarkable history of biology that has ever been written.”–Michel Foucault
Nobel Prize-winning scientist Fran?is Jacob’s The Logic of Life is a landmark book in the history of biology and s- Series: Princeton Science Library #62
- Author: Jacob, François
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0691182841
- Language: English
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Infinity and the Mind: The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite
$19.95 Add to cartA dynamic exploration of infinity
In Infinity and the Mind, Rudy Rucker leads an excursion to that stretch of the universe he calls the “Mindscape,” where he explores infinity in all its forms: potent- Series: Princeton Science Library #63
- Author: Rucker, Rudolf V.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: July 23 2019
- ISBN10: 0691191387
- Language: English
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Adaptation and Natural Selection: A Critique of Some Current Evolutionary Thought
$22.95 Add to cartBiological evolution is a fact-but the many conflicting theories of evolution remain controversial even today. When Adaptation and Natural Selection was first published in 1966, it struck a powerful b… [more below]
- Series: Princeton Science Library #61
- Author: Williams, George Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: October 30 2018
- ISBN10: 0691182868
- Language: English
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Euler’s Gem: The Polyhedron Formula and the Birth of Topology
$21.95 Add to cartHow a simple equation reshaped mathematics
Leonhard Euler’s polyhedron formula describes the structure of many objects-from soccer balls and gemstones to Buckminster Fuller’s buildings and giant all-c- Series: Princeton Science Library #64
- Author: Richeson, David S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 23 2019
- ISBN10: 0691191379
- Language: English
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The Journey of Man: A Genetic Odyssey
$18.95 Add to cartAround 200,000 years ago, a man–identical to us in all important respects–lived in Africa. Every person alive today is descended from him. How did this real-life Adam wind up father of us all? What
- Series: Princeton Science Library #51
- Author: Wells, Spencer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 28 2017
- ISBN10: 0691176019
- Language: English
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Symmetry
$18.95 Add to cartSymmetry is a classic study of symmetry in mathematics, the sciences, nature, and art from one of the twentieth century’s greatest mathematicians. Hermann Weyl explores the concept of symmetry beginni
- Series: Princeton Science Library #47
- Author: Weyl, Hermann
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 04 2016
- ISBN10: 0691173257
- Language: English
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Gamma: Exploring Euler’s Constant
$20.95 Add to cartAmong the many constants that appear in mathematics, π, e, and i are the most familiar. Following closely behind is y, or gamma, a constant that arises in many mathematical areas yet maintains a
- Series: Princeton Science Library #53
- Author: Havil, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 31 2017
- ISBN10: 0691178100
- Language: English
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The Meaning of Relativity: Including the Relativistic Theory of the Non-Symmetric Field – Fifth Edition
$19.95 Add to cartIn 1921, five years after the appearance of his comprehensive paper on general relativity and twelve years before he left Europe permanently to join the Institute for Advanced Study, Albert Einstein v
- Series: Princeton Science Library #32
- Author: Einstein, Albert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 26 2014
- ISBN10: 0691164088
- Language: English
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When Least Is Best: How Mathematicians Discovered Many Clever Ways to Make Things as Small (or as Large) as Possible
$18.95 Add to cartA mathematical journey through the most fascinating problems of extremes and how to solve them
What is the best way to photograph a speeding bullet? How can lost hikers find their way out of a forest?- Series: Princeton Science Library #114
- Author: Nahin, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 406
- Publish Date: May 18 2021
- ISBN10: 0691218765
- Language: English
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The Eternal Darkness: A Personal History of Deep-Sea Exploration
$29.95 Add to cartUntil a few decades ago, the ocean depths were almost as mysterious and inaccessible as outer space. Oceans cover two-thirds of the earth’s surface with an average depth of more than two miles–yet hu
- Series: Princeton Science Library #50
- Author: Ballard, Robert D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: March 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0691175624
- Language: English
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The Calculus Gallery: Masterpieces from Newton to Lebesgue
$19.95 Add to cartMore than three centuries after its creation, calculus remains a dazzling intellectual achievement and the gateway to higher mathematics. This book charts its growth and development by sampling from t… [more below]
- Series: Princeton Science Library #60
- Author: Dunham, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 13 2018
- ISBN10: 069118285X
- Language: English
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T. Rex and the Crater of Doom
$19.95 Add to cartSixty-five million years ago, a comet or asteroid larger than Mount Everest slammed into the Earth, inducing an explosion equivalent to the detonation of a hundred million hydrogen bombs. Vaporized de
- Series: Princeton Science Library #39
- Author: Alvarez, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 15 2015
- ISBN10: 0691169667
- Language: English
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The Mathematical Mechanic: Using Physical Reasoning to Solve Problems
$18.95 Add to cartEverybody knows that mathematics is indispensable to physics–imagine where we’d be today if Einstein and Newton didn’t have the math to back up their ideas. But how many people realize that physics c
- Series: Princeton Science Library #133
- Author: Levi, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0691242054
- Language: English
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The Nature of Space and Time
$16.95 Add to cartFrom two of the world’s great physicists–Stephen Hawking and Nobel laureate Roger Penrose–a lively debate about the nature of space and time
Einstein said that the most incomprehensible thing about th- Series: Princeton Science Library #40
- Author: Hawking, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: September 22 2015
- ISBN10: 069116844X
- Language: English
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E: The Story of a Number
$18.95 Add to cartThe interest earned on a bank account, the arrangement of seeds in a sunflower, and the shape of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis are all intimately connected with the mysterious number e. In this inform
- Series: Princeton Science Library #41
- Author: Maor, Eli
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 22 2015
- ISBN10: 0691168482
- Language: English
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Life on a Young Planet: The First Three Billion Years of Evolution on Earth – Updated Edition
$19.95 Read moreAustralopithecines, dinosaurs, trilobites–such fossils conjure up images of lost worlds filled with vanished organisms. But in the full history of life, ancient animals, even the trilobites, form onl
- Series: Princeton Science Library #35
- Author: Knoll, Andrew H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: March 22 2015
- ISBN10: 069116553X
- Language: English
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The Enjoyment of Math
$19.95 Add to cartThe classic book that shares the enjoyment of mathematics with readers of all skill levels
What is so special about the number 30? Do the prime numbers go on forever? Are there more whole numbers than- Series: Princeton Science Library #131
- Author: Rademacher, Hans
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: January 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0691241546
- Language: English
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The Extreme Life of the Sea
$17.95 Add to cartA thrilling tour of the sea’s most extreme species, coauthored by one of the world’s leading marine scientists
The ocean teems with life that thrives under difficult situations in unusual environments- Series: Princeton Science Library #122
- Author: Palumbi, Anthony R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0691229236
- Language: English
