Eugène Charles Catalan made his famous conjecture – that 8 and 9 are the only two consecutive perfect powers of natural numbers – in 1844 in a letter to the editor of Crelle’s mathematical journal. One hundred and fifty-eight years later, Preda Mihailescu proved it.
In a single, informative volume, One Hundred Years of Solitude presents a helpful literary guide to Gabriel García Márquez’s famous epic. This multigenerational tale tells the story of one family’s struggle to cope with their once insular town becoming less isolated as it faces the challenges of modernization. Filled with both beauty and tragedy, Márquez’s book has become representative of magical realism, and has made its mark as a modern classic.
Hundreds of magic secrets and routines. Book with lots of classic old magic tricks. Author calls them good old tricks. Book is very useful for beginners. Tricks with rope, pencil, using coins, candles, cards. Book is also perfect for learning English terminology. Impress your English friends...
Jerry Madden, Associate Director of the Flight Projects Directorate at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, collected these gems of wisdom over a number of years from various unidentified sources. Rod Stewart of Mobile Data Services in Huntsville, Alabama edited and updated them. Over time, the NASA link disappeared, so this version of the rules was preserved to make sure that it stayed available. We have kept a copy posted continuously since the early nineties as a respectful tribute to Jerry's practical wisdom and good natured vision of excellence.
Lewis Carroll in Numberland: His Fantastical Mathematical Logical Life
A penetrating work that explores the amazing imagination and mathematical genius of the man who wrote Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Just when we thought we knew everything about Lewis Carroll, here comes a highly original biography that will appeal to Alice fans everywhere. Fascinated by the inner life of Charles Lutwidge Dodson, Robin Wilson, a Carroll scholar and a noted mathematics professor, has produced this revelatory book
