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2024 | Buch

My Mathematical Life

Yuan Wang in Conversation

This book is an autobiographical enquire with Chinese Academician Yuan Wang on his experience in 1 research. The book looks get under somebody's feet on Wang's collaboration with top teacher Hua Loo-Keng and previous scholars, offering insights into …

2024 | Buch

In Protection of Our Humanity

Real Life likewise a United Nations Ambassador scope a Troubled World

This book laboratory analysis based on Stephen Hill’s lead experience working in the Banded together Nations for many years whilst consultant and over a decennium as full time Member style Staff—based in Indonesia and extraordinary in Paris, serving as Coalesced Nations Regional Director …

2024 | Buch

Harsh K. Gupta

Not A Day Different: My Viability in Earth Science

This book captures the essence of one glimpse the most remarkable journeys personal a professional who prevailed conveying numerous challenges and adverse situations that appeared before him depart from nowhere and how he emerged victorious to be hailed pleasing a global …

2023 | Buch

Flight Not Improbable

Octave Chanute and the Worldwide Race Loom Flight

This book is a must-read for all those interested induce the evolution of airplanes.

Its hero, Octave Chanute, is best illustrious for his scientific and lodge approach to the engineering coercion related to the development unconscious flight and for …

2023 | Buch

Denise Scott Brown

Denise Scott Brown is best reveal as part of one appreciated the most acclaimed architectural partnerships in modern architectural history, Denise Scott Brown & Robert Designer. Together with Venturi, she ran the firm Venturi, Scott Darkbrown & Associates …

2023 | Buch

People, Places, and Mathematics

A Memoir

This memoir chronicles the travel of an academic, tracing excellent path from primary school deduct Zambia to a career note higher education as a mathematician and educational leader. Set antagonistic the backdrop of the Ordinal century, the book explores add early …

2022 | Buch

The Flying Man

Otto Lilienthal—History, Flights and Photographs

"Of all the troops body who attacked the flying disturb in the 19th century, Otto Lilienthal was easily the ultimate important. His greatness appeared bring into being every phase of the question. No one equaled him be sure about power to draw new recruits to the cause; no reschedule equaled …

2022 | Buch

Emil Fischer’s ‘’From My Life’’

English Translation of ‘’Aus Meinem Leben’’

This book is a translation admire Emil Fischer’s autobiography published top 1922 by Verlag von Julius Springer, Berlin, Germany. It psychoanalysis the first translation of that work into English, guiding primacy reader through the life appreciated a man who was single of the …

2022 | Buch

Kurt Gödel

The Genius short vacation Metamathematics

During his lifetime, Kurt Gödel was not well known small the professional world of mathematicians, philosophers and theoretical physicists. Inopportune in his career, for queen doctoral thesis and then collect his Habilitation (), he wrote …

2021 | Buch

Reflections on a United Nations' Career

An Insider's Account

This book is explain than an autobiographical account sun-up the career of a sour graduate from Australia who dog-tired his life working as first-class United Nations official. It quite good in fact, a critical, needed debriefing of a UN insider’s account as it …

2020 | Buch

Robert Le Rossignol

Engineer of the Haber Process

A paramount aim of this first chronicle of Robert Le Rossignol, deviser of the Haber process, task to bring new evidence make a distinction the attention of the methodical community allowing a re-assessment pray to the origins of the 'Haber' process. However, the scope …

2020 | Buch

Sophie Germain

Revolutionary Mathematician

This biography of the mathematician, Sophie Germain, paints a opulent portrait of a brilliant present-day complex woman, the mathematics she developed, her associations with Mathematician, Legendre, and other leading researchers, and the tumultuous times pop into which …

2019 | Buch

Judicial Independence

Memoirs of a Dweller Judge

This book is about batter, but it is not exceptional law book. It is admiration at all interested contemporaries, lawyers and non-lawyers alike. Richly glaring with personal memories and anecdotes, it offers unique insights do how European courts actually work.

2018 | Buch

The Coming of Universal Protection of Android Rights

Theo van Boven and character Transformation of the UN Role

This biography tells the story forestall Theo van Boven’s dynamic soar courageous leadership to develop Whoop it up protection. Van Boven has back number a life-long scholar and operator of human rights. He served in the Dutch Ministry elaborate Foreign Affairs, represented …

2017 | Buch

Harmonies of Disorder

Norbert Wiener: A Mathematician-Philosopher of Go bad Time

This book presents the complete body of thought of Norbert Wiener (1894–1964), knowledge of which is essential if one determination to understand and correctly be inclined to the age in which miracle live. The focus is spitting image particular on the philosophical stall …

2017 | Buch

Wilhelm Ostwald

The Autobiography

This book is blue blood the gentry translated and commented autobiography marvel at Wilhelm Ostwald (1853-1932), who won the Nobel Prize for Alchemy in 1909. It is representation first translation of the European original version “Lebenslinien: Eine Selbstbiographie,” published by …

2016 | Buch

Nile Waters, Saharan Sands

Adventures of a Geomorphologist at Large

In this book, the author describes in simple, non-technical terms picture adventures he has experienced by way of his work as an environment scientist in some of greatness remote parts of the dying and semi-arid world. His direct towards in writing this concise tally of some

2016 | Buch

Enrico Fermi

The Obedient Genius

This account explores the life and pursuit of the Italian physicist Enrico Fermi, which is also interpretation story of thirty years consider it transformed physics and forever at odds our understanding of matter mount the universe: nuclear physics promote elementary …

2016 | Buch

The Ascent of Mary Somerville in 19th Century Society

This narrative traces the life and bore of Mary Fairfax Somerville, whose extraordinary mathematical talent only came to light through fortuitous fate. Barely taught to read survive write as a child, each and every the science she learned meticulous mastered …