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The Half-Life of Facts

Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date

av Samuel Arbesman ...

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Anaximander

And the Nature of Science

av Carlo Rovelli ...

Oversatt av Marion Lignana Rosenberg ...

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Superintelligence

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The Selfish Gene

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av Richard Dawkins ...

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av David Spiegelhalter ...

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Fooled by Randomness

The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

av Nassim Nicholas Taleb ...

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The Joy of X

A Guided Tour of Mathematics, from One to Infinity

av Steven Strogatz ...

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The Book of Why

The New Science of Cause and Effect

av Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie ...

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Logic

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av Graham Priest ...

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Rationality

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av Steven Pinker ...

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Six Easy Pieces

Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher

av Richard P. Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew Sands ...

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Infinite Powers

How Calculus Reveals the Secrets of the Universe

av Steven Strogatz ...

From preeminent math personality and author of The Joy of x, a brilliant and endlessly appealing popular science explanation of calculus—how it works and why it makes our lives immeasurably better.Without calculus, we wouldn’t have cell phones, TV, GPS, or ultrasound. We wouldn’t have unraveled DNA or discovered Neptune or figured out how to put 5,000 songs in your pocket.Though many of us were ... Les mer

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Lost in Math

How Beauty Leads Physics Astray

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In this "provocative" book (New York Times), a contrarian physicist argues that her field's modern obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but bad science.Whether pondering black holes or predicting discoveries at CERN, physicists believe the best theories are beautiful, natural, and elegant, and this standard separates popular theories from disposable ones. This is why, Sabine ... Les mer

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In this "provocative" book (New York Times), a contrarian physicist argues that her field's modern obsession with beauty has given us wonderful math but bad science.Whether pondering black holes or predicting discoveries at CERN, physicists believe the best theories are beautiful, natural, and elegant, and this standard separates popular theories from disposable ones. This is why, Sabine
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Matematikk e-bøker

The Half-Life of Facts

Anaximander

How the World Really Works

Factfulness

Skin in the Game

The Black Swan

Superintelligence

The Selfish Gene

Nudge

The Art of Statistics

The Beginning of Infinity

A Mind For Numbers

What If? 10th Anniversary Edition

The Art of Doing Science and Engineering

Fermat’s Last Theorem

Numbers Don't Lie

Fooled by Randomness

The Joy of X

The Book of Why

Logic

Rationality

Six Easy Pieces

Infinite Powers

Lost in Math