Télécharger le livre :  Pioneering Israeli Women in Electronic Computing (1953—1970)
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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...

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Parution : 2025-03-04
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Télécharger le livre :  Galileo and the 1604 Supernova
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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 :  Historical Roots of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking
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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 :  The Roots and Development of Particle Physics in India
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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 :  Philosophy and Allotment : John Locke's influence on Henry L. Dawes
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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...

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Parution : 2020-01-06
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Télécharger le livre :  The Turbulence Problem
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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)
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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
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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
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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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Télécharger le livre :  Reassessing Riemann's Paper
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In this book, the author pays tribute to Bernhard Riemann (1826–1866), 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 : 2018-05-26
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Télécharger le livre :  From Transuranic to Superheavy Elements
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The story of superheavy elements  - those at the very end of the periodic table  - is not well known outside the community of heavy-ion physicists and nuclear chemists. But it is a most interesting story which deserves to be known also to historians,...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2018-02-12
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Télécharger le livre :  The Development of Elementary Quantum Theory
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This book traces the evolution of the ideas that eventually resulted in the elementary quantum theory in 1925/26. Further, it discusses the essential differences between the fundamental equations of Quantum Theory derived by Born and Jordan, logically comprising Quantum...

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Parution : 2017-09-12
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Télécharger le livre :  The Bumpy Road
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This book examines the different areas of knowledge, traditions, and conceptual resources that contributed to the building of Max Planck’s theory of radiation. It presents an insightful comparative analysis that not only sheds light upon a fundamental chapter in the...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2015-06-06
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Télécharger le livre :  A History of Biophysics in Contemporary China
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This book gives a concise history of biophysics in contemporary China, from about 1949 to 1976. It outlines how a science specialty evolved from an ambiguous and amorphous field into a fully-fledged academic discipline in the socio-institutional contexts of contemporary...

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Parution : 2015-05-06
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Télécharger le livre :  Mary Somerville and the World of Science
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Mary Somerville (1780-1872), after whom Somerville College Oxford was named, was the first woman scientist to win an international reputation entirely in her own right, rather than through association with a scientific brother or father.She was active in astronomy, one...

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Parution : 2014-08-26
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Télécharger le livre :  The Machines of Sex Research
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The Machines of Sex Research describes how researchers worldwide integrated technology into studies of human sexuality in the postwar era.The machines they invented made new ways of seeing bodies possible. Some researchers who studied men used machines like penile...

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Parution : 2013-07-04
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