Айзек Азімов Books

The first volume of Asimov's saga, which won the Hugo Award for Best All-Time Novel Series. The ostensible task of Foundation, a group of savants established by Seldon on the remote planet Terminus, is to compile the "Encyclopedia Galactica", a complete account of human knowledge.

The Foundation trilogy is a saga of humaity's struggle against darkness played on the the grandest possible scale - is one of the corner-stones of modern science fiction. It is the story of the Galactic empire, crumbling after 12,000 years of rule, and the story of psycho-historian Hari Seldon, the only man who can see the horrors the future has in store..

В книге описываются доступные способы упрощения и ускорения расчетов. Практические советы автора по превращению сложных задач в простые помогут дополнить школьные знания, развить скорость и точность вычислений, научат с удовольствием, без труда и ошибок манипулировать с числами.

Chapter headings: 1. The Mycenaean Age 2. The Iron Age 3. The Age of Colonization 4. The Rise of Sparta 5. The Age of Tyrants 6. The Rise of Athens 7. Asia Minor 8. The Persian War 9. The Golden Age 10. The Peloponnesian War 11. Sparta In Control 12. Decline 13. Macedonia 14. The Successors of Alexander 15. The Twilight of Freedom 16. The Hellenistic Monarchies 17. Rome and Constantinople 18. The Ottoman Empire 19. Table of Dates