This author specializes in uncovering the 'stealth math' hidden within everyday life and broader scientific concepts. Their goal is to dismantle the barriers that prevent many from understanding and appreciating mathematics, making complex ideas accessible to a wider audience. Drawing from an academic background in mathematics, their work explores intriguing topics, often revealing the elegant logic beneath the surface. Readers will find their writing to be an engaging invitation to see the world through a more analytical and insightful lens.
Presents a selection of topics in mathematics that have attracted particular attention in recent years. This volume is dominated by an event that shook the world in 2020 and 2021, the coronavirus (or COVID-19) pandemic. While the world turned to politicians and physicians for guidance, mathematicians played a key role in the background.
How the study of causality revolutionized science and the world Cause and effect: it's at the center of scientific inquiry, and yet for decades scientists had no way of answering simple questions, such as whether smoking causes cancer. In The Book of Why, Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie show how Pearl's work on causality has broken through this stalemate, unleashing a revolution in our knowledge of the world. Anyone who wants to understand how science, the human mind, or artificial intelligence works needs The Book of Why. "Illuminating. . . a valuable lesson on the history of ideas." --New York Times "This book really gets you thinking about cause and effect as it applies to issues of our time. . . . Extraordinary." --Science Friday
Ľudské a často prekvapujúce príbehy o pozadí vynálezov a objavov rovníc doplnené starovekými rukopismi, farebnými fotografiami, mapami a grafmiPríbeh matematiky rozpráva históriu 24 veľkých a výnimočných rovníc, ktoré formovali matematiku, vedu a spoločnosť, od jednoduchých (1 + 1 = 2) až po sofistikované (Blackova-Scholesova rovnica pre finančné deriváty), od slávnych (E = mc2) po tajomné (Hamiltonove kvaternióny). Autor prehľadne vysvetľuje, čo ktorá rovnica znamená, kto a ako ju objavil a ako vplýva na naše životy.V knihe nájdete vysvetlenie nadčasovosti vybraných rovníc, ich výpovednej hodnoty o vesmíre a o tom, ako stručne (bez slov) to všetko dokážu, efektívnejšie než ktorýkoľvek iný jazyk.Dozviete sa, ako nekvalitné cigary zmenili smerovanie kvantovej mechaniky alebo prečo by nás veľryby (keby vedeli hovoriť) učili úplne inú geometriu.Z anglického originálu preložil RNDr. Michal Demetrian, PhD