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In this extraordinarily accessible and enormously witty book, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Leon Lederman guides us on a fascinating tour …
One of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable …
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Proofs and Refutations is essential reading for all those interested in the methodology, the philosophy and the history of mathematics. …
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Scientific research is viewed as a deliberate activity and the logic of discovery consists of strategies and arguments whereby the …
Realism and the Aim of Science is one of the three volumes of Karl Popper’s Postscript to the Logic of …
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Cosmology, the study of the universe as a whole, has become a precise physical science, the foundation of which is …
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It was the universe's most elusive particle, the linchpin for everything scientists dreamed up to explain how physics works. It …
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th European Conference on Principles and Practice of Knowledge Discovery in Databases, …
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In 1803, President Thomas Jefferson commissioned the Corps of Discovery as a scientific expedition to explore the newly acquired Louisiana …
