Explores the plausibility of mathematical answers to puzzles in the physical world, in an accessible exploration of the lives and thoughts of such figures as Archimedes, Galileo, and Newton.

This book covers 250 milestones in mathematical history, beginning millions of years ago with ancient "ant odometers" and moving through time to our modern-day quest for new dimensions.

Contrary to the popular view of science as a mountainous accumulation of facts and data, Stuart Firestein takes the novel perspective that ignorance is the main product and driving force of science, and that this is the best way to ...

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It is the first book to survey modern developments in science during a century of unprecedented change, conflict and uncertainty.

Students explore and practice brilliant discoveries from othe civilizations through readings and activities in this book.

"... a tour through the most influential images in science"--Jacket.

Astronomers including Henry Russell, Edwin Hubble, Stephen Hawking - Chemists including John Dalton, Dmitri Mendeleev, Marie Curie, Dorothy Hodgkin - Physicists including Michael Faraday, James Clerk Maxwell, Ernest Rutherford and Albert ...

Introduces some of the most influential scientists to study light and sound, and to create such technology as phonographs, telephones, and cameras.

A provocative history of the people behind the greatest discoveries in chemistry