In Things That Make Us Smart, Donald A. Norman explores the complex interaction between human thought and the technology it creates, arguing for the development of machines that fit our minds, rather than minds that must conform to the machine.…
Yeomans provides a history of cometary thought—both scientific and superstitious—from the ancient Greeks and Chinese right up to the present. In his last three chapters he discards this straightforward chronological organization for a thematic one,…
Only a few years ago, astronomers were uncertain whether planets might orbit stars other than the sun. In the past few years, though, the experimental data has practically rushed in. In Worlds Unnumbered, Donald Goldsmith explains exactly how…
The cosmological constant and other fudge factors in physics
The Big Bang: A Big Bust? The cosmos seems to be in crisis, and you don't have to be a rocket scientist to see it. How, for instance, can the universe be full of stars far older than…
Première biographie complète du mathématicien-cosmologiste Georges Lemaître, considéré comme le "père du Big Bang", ce livre s'attache d'abord à saisir les apports scientifiques majeurs de Georges Lemaître non seulement en cosmologie mais aussi en…
Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) is in alle opzichten bijzonder. Als jongeman zorgt hij voor een revolutie in de wiskunde: met Fermat (Wetenschappelijke Biografie 13) stond hij aan de wieg van de waarschijnlijkheidsrekening. Hij ontwierp een van de eerste…