This book presents state-of-the-art pedagogical approaches to biomedical engineering education within a global context. The book also provides practical guides on adapting pedagogies and designing learning activities in the biomedical engineering classroom that suit undergraduate and postgraduate programs.Perspectives on Biomedical Engineering Education is the first book of its kind to focus on applications of pedagogical approaches for dissecting and examining complex con...

What if one man's search for truth could shape the future of civilization?The Complete Plato & Socrates Collection presents the definitive anthology of the foundational works that defined ethics, politics, logic, love, death, and the human condition for millennia to come. This modern, reader-friendly translation brings together the greatest dialogues and testimonies written by Plato, Xenophon, and Aristophanes-the men who knew Socrates and captured the power of ...

What if a man who wrote nothing became the foundation of Western philosophy?The Complete Socrates Collection is the ultimate anthology of works capturing the life, thought, and paradox of history's most enigmatic philosopher. This modernized edition brings together the enduring writings of Plato, Xenophon, and Aristophanes-each offering a distinct and complementary lens into the mind and mission of Socrates.Spanning high philosophy, historical testimony,...

A stirring account of the mathematicians who went looking for the bedrock philosophical foundations of their field and witnessed a house of cards collapse instead“A fascinating romp through one of the most consequential conflicts of the early 20th century.”—Johnjoe McFadden, author of Life on the EdgeAs the nineteenth century ended, mathematicians were celebrating a century of triumphs that—surprisingly—made clear how little they k...

The basis of the present edition of Socrates’ Ecclesiastical History is the translation in Bagster’s series mentioned in the Introduction, Part IV. The changes introduced, however, are numerous. The translation was found unnecessarily free; so far as the needs of the English idiom require freedom no fault could, of course, have been found with the translation; but the divergences from the original in multitudes of cases were not warranted by any such need; they were more probably induced b...

The great discovery that no one wanted to makeIt's the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, and Euclidean geometry has been profoundly influential for centuries. One mystery remains, however: Euclid's fifth postulate has eluded for two thousand years all attempts to prove it. What happens when three nineteenth-century mathematicians realize that there is no way to prove the fifth postulate and that it ought to be discarded—along with everything they'd come to know ab...

Socrates (Σωκράτης), born in Athens around 470 BC, was a Greek philosopher who is credited as the founder of Western philosophy and among the first moral philosophers of the ethical tradition of thought. An enigmatic figure, he authored no texts and is known mainly through the posthumous accounts of classical writers, particularly his students Plato and Xenophon. These accounts are written as dialogues, in which Socrates and his interlocutors examine a subject in the style of question and ...

This book examines the manifestations of architecture, cities, and design processes within digital culture.Adopting a comparative and critical method, the author looks at past and present encounters of the digital with architectural discourse and practice. Along three central themes – machines, networks, and computation – the book begins by discussing transformations of the analogy between architecture and the machine since the early twentieth century, foregrounding questions about...

Also known as Socrates Scholasticus, the fifth-century Byzantine historian Socrates of Constantinople was the first layman to write church history. His ‘Historia Ecclesiastica’ covers the history of late ancient Christianity from AD 305 to 439. Composed in seven books, it is written in simple and concise Greek, offering an impartial account of important events, occasionally embellished with anecdotes from eyewitnesses. An indispensable documentary source for fourth and early fifth ...

Now regarded as the bane of many college students' existence, calculus was one of the most important mathematical innovations of the seventeenth century. But a dispute over its discovery sewed the seeds of discontent between two of the greatest scientific giants of all time -- Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Today Newton and Leibniz are generally considered the twin independent inventors of calculus, and they are both credited with giving mathematics its greatest push forwa...

According to Wikipedia: "Christian Church and the word church are used to denote both a Christian association of people and a place of worship. The word church is usually, but not exclusively, associated with Christianity. The term means something quite different for each religious institution that sees itself as belonging to the Christian traditions. The Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox Churches each claim to be the one Church established by Jesus Christ, specially guided by...

Architecture and Adaptation discusses architectural projects that use computational technology to adapt to changing conditions and human needs. Topics include kinetic and transformable structures, digitally driven building parts, interactive installations, intelligent environments, early precedents and their historical context, socio-cultural aspects of adaptive architecture, the history and theory of artificial life, the theory of human-computer interaction, tangible computing,an...