TTC - Queen of the Sciences: A History of Mathematics
Course No. 1434 (24 lectures, 30 minutes/lecture) Taught by David M. Bressoud Macalester College Ph.D., Temple University 1. What Is Mathematics? 2. Babylonian and Egyptian Mathematics 3. Greek Mathematics—Thales to Euclid 4. Greek Mathematics—Archimedes to Hypatia 5. Astronomy and the Origins of Trigonometry
Time's Arrow and Archimedes' Point: New Directions for the Physics of Time
Why is the future so different from the past? Why does the past affect the future and not the other way around? What does quantum mechanics really tell us about the world? In this important and accessible book, Huw Price throws fascinating new light these great mysteries of modern physics, and connects them in a wholly original way.
This monumental book was specially designed to make mathematics more accessible to the inexperienced. It comprises nontechnical essays on every aspect of the vast subject, including articles by and about scores of eminent mathematicians, as well as literary figures, economists, biologists, and many other eminent thinkers. This unique compendium includes the work of Archimedes, Galileo, Descartes, Newton, Gregor Mendel, John Maynard Keynes, Lewis Carroll, Bertrand Russell, John von Neumann, and many others.
When Andrew Carnegie's flying locomotive deposits Archimedes the duck (and his telekinetic fish, Finley) in the vast Ohio desert, it is only the beginning of a long and torturous journey involving cannibalism, decapitation and social faux-pas. While Finley tries to create the perfect artificial poker game, the horrors of the backwater city of Zuckerstown come to light... and they are horribly unpleasant horrors indeed! Now, as his companions are brutally murdered in their hotel rooms each night, Archimedes must uncover the dark secret of the Titan Inn... before the killer strikes him as well!
When Archimedes - the world-famous technologist and erstwhile deviant - finds himself naked in the middle of town, he inadvertently breaks Winton's First Rule of Artful Diplomacy: "Do not talk to fishies." Now, with an ill-mannered, highly-dependent water-dweller in his care, Archimedes must navigate a complex world filled with admen, foreign soldiers and dubiously-accredited engineers! "Archimedes' Fish" is a SteamDuck picture-book for quick-witted adults and children who have already been emotionally scarred.
