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Everything Is Predictable "How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World"
Chivers, Tom
Orion Publishing (2024)
- EAN: 9781399604048
- Páginas: 320
- Fecha de edición: 2024
pvp.22,00 €
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Thomas Bayes was an eighteenth-century Presbyterian minister and amateur mathematician whose obscure life belied the profound impact of his work. Like most research into probability at the time, his theorem was mainly seen as relevant ...
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Heyday "The 1850s and the Dawn of the Global Age"
Wilson, Ben
Orion Publishing (2017)
- EAN: 9780753829219
- Páginas: 462
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.14,50 €
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'Excellent . . . This is narrative history of the highest quality' Andrew Lycett, Sunday Telegraph
'Wonderfully engrossing and intelligent . . . clever and entertaining' Dominic Sandbrook, Sunday Times
HEYDAY brings to ... -
Scale "The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies"
West, Geoffrey B.
Orion Publishing (2018)
- EAN: 9781780225593
- Páginas: 479
- Fecha de edición: 2018
pvp.14,50 €
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Geoffrey West's research centres on a quest to find unifying principles and patterns connecting everything, from cells and ecosystems to cities, social networks and businesses.
Why do organisms and ecosystems scale with size in ... -
The Rift "A New Africa Breaks Free "
Perry, Alex
Orion Publishing (2017)
- EAN: 9781780226859
- Páginas: 448
- Fecha de edición: 2017
pvp.14,75 €
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Taking the Great Rift Valley - the geological fault that will eventually tear Africa in two - as his central metaphor, Alex Perry explores the split between a resurgent Africa and a world at odds ...
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The Spanish Armada
Hutchinson, Robert
Orion Publishing (2013)
- EAN: 9780297866374
- Páginas: 432
- Fecha de edición: 2013
pvp.27,05 €
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After the accession of Elizabeth I in 1558, Protestant England was beset by the hostile Catholic powers of Europe - not least Spain. In October 1585 King Philip II of Spain declared his intention to ...
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The Choice of Hercules "Pleasure, Duty and the Good Life in the 21st Century"
Pleasure, Duty and the Good Life in the 21st CenturyGrayling, Anthony
Orion Publishing (2008)
- EAN: 9780753824436
- Páginas: 192
- Fecha de edición: 2008
pvp.11,70 €
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Duty or Pleasure? This was the legendary choice which faced Hercules and which pre-eminent philosopher AC Grayling uses as the starting point of this masterful book. He shows us how much more people can understand ...
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What Is Good?
Crayling, Anthony C.
Orion Publishing (2004)
- EAN: 9780753817551
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha de edición: 2004
pvp.11,65 €
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One of the most fundamental questions in our life is to find out what we value - what principles we want to live by and which codes we will use to guide our behaviour. Most ...
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Infinite Ascent. a Short History Of Mathematics.
Berlinski, David
Orion Publishing (2006)
- EAN: 9780297848516
- Páginas: 197
- Fecha de edición: 2006
pvp.28,00 €
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From the Renaissance onwards, mathematics has had a near-mystical status. If the pragmatic Romans, and Christian Europe, did not share the Greeks' fascination with numbers and geometrical shapes, the introduction of Arabic numerals, and the ...
