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Télécharger le livre : Pioneering Israeli Women in Electronic Computing (1953—1970)
Leo Corry , Raya Leviathan
Pioneering Israeli Women in Electronic Computing (1953—1970)
This book offers a journey into the history of pioneering Israeli women in electronic computing and explores the impact these women had on the annals of Israeli computing history. With the primary setting being the Weizmann Institute of Science, where the genesis of...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2025-03-04
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Télécharger le livre : Galileo and Satellite Navigation
Alessandro De Angelis
Galileo and Satellite Navigation
This book explores the Galilean method for geolocation, placing it in historical and astronomical context. It bridges the techniques developed by the Greeks and medieval astronomers with later innovations like precision clocks, 20th-century wireless technology, and...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2024-12-26
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Télécharger le livre : Explorations and False Trails
Jens Høyrup
Explorations and False Trails
This book provides a unique perspective on the history of European algebra up to the advent of Viète and Descartes. The standard version of this history is written on the basis of a narrow and misleading source basis: the Latin translations of al-Khwarizmi, Fibonacci's...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2024-07-29
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Télécharger le livre : Galileo and the 1604 Supernova
Alessandro De Angelis
Galileo and the 1604 Supernova
This book is about the 1604 supernova and presents the translation of key documents discussing this astronomical event in Italy. Only seven Galactic supernovae visible to the naked eye are documented, with the 1604 event, the last in history, profoundly impacting...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2024-07-20
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Télécharger le livre : Chaim L. Pekeris and the Art of Applying Mathematics with WEIZAC, 1955–1963
Leo Corry , Raya Leviathan
Chaim L. Pekeris and the Art of Applying Mathematics with WEIZAC, 1955–1963
This book describes the groundbreaking work of Chaim Leib Pekeris and his collaborators. Between 1955 and 1963 they used the first electronic computer built in Israel, the Weizmann Automatic Computer (WEIZAC), to develop powerful numerical methods that helped achieve...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2023-04-24
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Télécharger le livre : From Dissent to Diplomacy: The Pugwash Project During the 1960s Cold War
Alison Kraft
From Dissent to Diplomacy: The Pugwash Project During the 1960s Cold War
This book provides new and critical perspectives on the internal development of the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs (the PCSWA; Pugwash) and its role in international nuclear diplomacy during the 1960s Cold War.  Conceived by western scientists...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2022-10-22
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Télécharger le livre : British Versions of Book II of Euclid's Elements: Geometry, Arithmetic, Algebra (1550–1750)
Leo Corry
British Versions of Book II of Euclid's Elements: Geometry, Arithmetic, Algebra (1550–1750)
This book discusses the changing conceptions about the relationship between geometry and arithmetic within the Euclidean tradition that developed in the British context of the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Its focus is on Book II of the Elements and the ways in...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2022-09-12
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Télécharger le livre : Historical Roots of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
Rocco Gaudenzi
Historical Roots of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
What are the thinking processes and knowledge resources involved in a complex discovery? How can the physics of solids, the physics of nuclei, and elementary particle physics cross-fertilise in spite of the widely differing domains and energy scales they deal...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2022-04-28
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Télécharger le livre : Distributivity-like Results in the Medieval Traditions of Euclid's Elements
Leo Corry
Distributivity-like Results in the Medieval Traditions of Euclid's Elements
This book provides a fresh view on an important and largely overlooked aspect of the Euclidean traditions in the medieval mathematical texts, particularly concerning the interrelations between geometry and arithmetic, and the rise  of algebraic modes...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-11-19
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Télécharger le livre : The Roots and Development of Particle Physics in India
Sreerup Raychaudhuri
The Roots and Development of Particle Physics in India
This book narrates the history of the initiation and development of elementary particle physics in India and by Indians, focusing on the first half of the twentieth century. The thread is taken up with the introduction of Western science into India in the previous...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-08-16
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Télécharger le livre : How to Make a Database in Historical Studies
Tiago Luís Gil
How to Make a Database in Historical Studies
This book is a greatly supplemented translation from Portuguese, originally published in 2015. It discusses the most appropriate ways to create databases for research on history and other humanities, including an extensive debate about the usages that historians have...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-07-27
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Télécharger le livre : Establishing Quantum Physics in Berlin
Giuseppe Castagnetti , Hubert Goenner
Establishing Quantum Physics in Berlin
This book explores Albert Einstein’s move to Berlin and the establishment of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Physics under his directorship. Einstein’s call to Berlin was supported by a group of prominent physicists, including Fritz Haber, Walter Nernst, Max Planck,...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-01-27
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Télécharger le livre : Reassessing Riemann's Paper
Walter Dittrich
Reassessing Riemann's Paper
In this book, the author pays tribute to Bernhard Riemann (1826-1866), a mathematician with revolutionary ideas, whose work on the theory of integration, the Fourier transform, the hypergeometric differential equation, etc. contributed immensely to mathematical physics....
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-01-04
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Télécharger le livre : Establishing Quantum Physics in Munich
Michael Eckert
Establishing Quantum Physics in Munich
This book traces the history of Arnold Sommerfeld’s famous “nursery of theoretical physics” at the University of Munich and demonstrates the centrality of developing personal and institutional networks for the emergence of quantum theory. Sommerfeld, originally a...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2020-12-15
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Télécharger le livre : Czech Women Philosophers and Scientists
Zdenka Jastrzembská , Dagmar Pichová , Jan Zouhar
Czech Women Philosophers and Scientists
This book examines the most important Czech women philosophers and scientists. It highlights the lives and achievements of a group that has often not received the recognition they deserve. Chapters provide a systematic description and critical evaluation of the impact...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2020-11-11
Collection : SpringerBriefs in History of Science and Technology
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Télécharger le livre : Philosophy and Allotment : John Locke's influence on Henry L. Dawes
David Bergeron
Philosophy and Allotment : John Locke's influence on Henry L. Dawes
This book provides a new perspective for examining the Native policies of the late nineteenth century. It centers on the figure of Henry Laurens Dawes, and more specifically, on the conceptual roots of his views on allotment, education and assimilation. These roots are...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2020-01-06
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Télécharger le livre : The Turbulence Problem
Michael Eckert
The Turbulence Problem
On the road toward a history of turbulence, this book focuses on what the actors in this research field have identified as the “turbulence problem”. Turbulent flow rose to prominence as one of the most persistent challenges in science. At different times and in...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-10-05
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Télécharger le livre : WEIZAC: An Israeli Pioneering Adventure in Electronic Computing (1945–1963)
Leo Corry , Raya Leviathan
WEIZAC: An Israeli Pioneering Adventure in Electronic Computing (1945–1963)
The book tells the unique story of WEIZAC, an early computer built by a “new nation” in the early 1950s. It was created in Israel, even though the feasibility of this project was actually close to null when it was initially conceived, in 1946, and, unlike most of the...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-08-16
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Télécharger le livre : Heisenberg’s 1958 Weltformel and the Roots of Post-Empirical Physics
Alexander S. Blum
Heisenberg’s 1958 Weltformel and the Roots of Post-Empirical Physics
This book presents the first detailed account of Werner Heisenberg’s failed attempt to find a theory of everything in the autumn of his career. It further investigates what we can learn from his failure in relation to the search for a final theory of physics, an...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-05-14
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Télécharger le livre : The History of Research on Chemical Periodic Processes
Alexander Pechenkin
The History of Research on Chemical Periodic Processes
This book offers a survey of the historic development of selected areas of chemistry and chemical physics, discussing in detail the European, American and Russian approaches to the development of chemistry. Other key topics include the kinetics and non-linear...
Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2018-08-24
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