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Dat is Big data wat het is, hoe het werkt, wat het oplevert
Als er tegenwoordig één nieuwe hype lijkt te bestaan, dan is het wel ‘Big Data’. De explosieve groei aan digitale gegevens wordt door marketing managers, multinationals en overheden triomfantelijk binnengehaald als het nieuwe goud. De datarevolutie…
The RGO Guide to the 1999 Total Eclipse of the Sun
The RGO Guide to the 1999 Total Eclipse of the Sun is a thorough and relatively technical sourcebook for all the information that readers of this Journal might require, and should be on every BAA member's bookshelf. Tables of the local…
Out of This World: Colliding Universes, Branes, Strings, and Other Wild Ideas of Modern Physics
The first law of popular science is that a sense of the discipline can be conveyed without mathematical formalities. A dangerous assumption in any field, it’s especially problematic when applied to the arcana explored in this cursory digest of…
Where is Everybody?
In response to Enrico Fermi's famous 1950 question concerning the existence of advanced civilizations elsewhere, physicist Webb critically examines 50 resolutions to explain the total absence of empirical evidence for probes, starships, and…
The Large Scale Structure of Space-Time (Cambridge Monographs on Mathematical Physics)
Einstein's General Theory of Relativity leads to two remarkable predictions: first, that the ultimate destiny of many massive stars is to undergo gravitational collapse and to disappear from view, leaving behind a 'black hole' in space; and secondly,…
Selections from The Principle of Relativity (On the Shoulders of Giants)
Stephen Hawking cuts through Einstein's mathematical complexities to explain the revolutionary concept of relativity in language that excites and informs the reader. This book features selections from a translation of the original essay.
Einstein's…
Amateur Telescope Making (Patrick Moore's Practical Astronomy Series)
Many amateur astronomers make their own instruments, either because of financial considerations or because they are just interested. Amateur Telescope Making offers a variety of designs for telescopes, mounts and drives which are suitable for the…
The future does not compute
Stephen Talbott's The Future Does Not Compute has been widely touted as a neo-Luddite anti-computer tract. This sort of pigeonholing makes it easy to ignore the profound and disturbing questions Talbott raises about our machine-dominated society. The…
Sterrenkunde voor Dummies
Sterrenkunde voor Dummies, pocketeditie Stephen P. Maran o Als je 's nachts wel eens naar de hemel kijkt en je afvraagt wat zich daar allemaal afspeelt, dan is dit voor jou het ideale boek. Van asteroiden en de oerknal tot zwarte gaten en quasars,…
The Astronomy and Astrophysics Encyclopedia
Features 403 articles by experts on theory, research and future scientific investigations. Special attention is given to background radiation and space exploration.