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Norbert Wiener - A Life in Cybernetics :Ex-Prodigy: my childhood and youth an…
Includes bibliographical references and index.Norbert Wiener's celebrated autobiography, available for the first time in one volume.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262347051
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- 003.5
Women in Mathematics
The colorful lives of these women, who often traveled in the most avant-garde circles of their day, are presented in fascinating detail. The obstacles and censures that were also a part of their lives are a sobering reminder of the bias against women still present in this and other fields of academic endeavor. Mathematicians, science historians, and general readers will find this book a lively …
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- 9780262281089
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Einstein's wife :the story of Mileva Einstein-Mari?c
Was Einstein's first wife his uncredited coauthor, unpaid assistant, or his unacknowledged helpmeet The real "Mileva Story." Albert Einstein's first wife, Mileva Einstein-Maric, was forgotten for decades. When a trove of correspondence between them beginning in their student days was discovered in 1986, her story began to be told. Some of the tellers of the "Mileva Story" made startling claims:…
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- 9780262352062
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- 1 online resource (336 pages).
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Ada, a life and a legacy
The subject of this biography "was the daughter of Lord Byron ... based on her report on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, she is also generally regarded as the inventor of the science of computer programming"--Page 4 of cover.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262257039
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- 1 online resource (xix, 321 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates) :illustrations.
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Women in mathematics
Examines the lives and scholarly endeavors of women who have profoundly affected mathematical thought since antiquity.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 0585308055
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- 1 online resource (xii, 185 pages) :portraits
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Henry P. McKean Jr. Selecta
This volume presents a selection of papers by Henry P. McKean, which illustrate the various areas in mathematics in which he has made seminal contributions. Topics covered include probability theory, integrable systems, geometry and financial mathematics. Each paper represents a contribution by Prof. McKean, either alone or together with other researchers, that has had a profound influence in t…
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- 978-3-319-22236-3
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- VII, 418
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Maverick Mathematician : The Life and Science of J.E. Moyal
There is currently a recognition of the importance of the stories ofindividual scientists (outside the pantheon of giants and leading disciplinefigures) in building the history of science. Such individuals are uniquemen and women of outstanding ability, drawn from different countriesand backgrounds, some of whose personal trajectories may move outsidethe practices and paradigms o…
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- 1 920942 59 9
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