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It is well known that Einstein founded twentieth-century physics with his work on relativity and quanta, but what do we really know about these ground breaking ideas? How were they discovered? What should we retain today from the conceptual upheavals he initiated? Through a selection of concrete scenes taken from Einstein's life, the author offers
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L'ouvrage que voici marque assurément un tournant décisif dans l'effort entrepris par les Africains de bonne foi de réhabiliter l'Histoire du Continent noir. Nous y découvrons que la notion de Dieu est une notion traditionnelle et intellectuelle africaine, les origines africaines des dieux de l'Olympe, les noms africains des dieux d'Égypte, les origines africaines du Judaïsme, du Christianisme et de l'Islam, les sources africaines de la démocratie parlementaire et du Droit, les sources vivifiantes de cette extraordinaire épopée qui conduira à l'émergence de la civilisation appelée égyptienne, le sens de l'iconographie des principales divinités de la vallée du Nil, les sources africaines de la franc-maçonnerie, les sources de la légende du Saint-Graal, l'objet de la circoncision, l'origine et la fonction des cathédrales, la fonction du sarcophage, les origines de la chimie et de la biologie, et les fondations africaines de Rome sont autant de sujets spécifiquement abordés.
From risqué cabaret performances to engrossing after-hours shop talk, Trade of the Tricks offers an unprecedented look inside the secretive subculture of modern magicians. Entering the flourishing Paris magic scene as an apprentice, Graham M. Jones gives a firsthand account of how magicians learn to perform their astonishing deceptions. He follows the day-to-day lives of some of France’s most renowned performers, revealing not only how secrets are created and shared, but also how they are stolen and destroyed. In a book brimming with humor and surprise, Jones shows how today’s magicians marshal creativity and passion in striving to elevate their amazing skill into high art. The book’s lively cast of characters includes female and queer performers whose work is changing the face of a historically masculine genre.
Le réseau « Chromatiques whiteheadiennes » a pour objectif premier de fédérer les recherches sur les différents aspects, nuances et implications de la pensée du philosophe et algébriste britannique Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947). C'est dans ce cadre qu'ont été créés en 2002 à l'Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne des séminaires de recherche sur la philosophie organique whiteheadienne. L' « Annuaire de la philosophie en procès » publie les principaux résultats de ces travaux et offre complémentairement des études critiques et des comptes rendus récents dans les domaines whiteheadiens et connexes. The « Chromatiques whiteheadiennes » network intends to bring toget...
How long did it take to prove. Aristotle's ideas about falling objects wrong ? How did science evolve from Democritus, the first philosopher to talk about the existence of atoms, to today's theories concerning the universe ? Can the world now be explained in the form of equations ? This volume - articulated in three parts: I. Classical Physics II. Modern Physics and III. Questions about the universe - answers all basic questions concerning the history of physics and physics. The approach chosen here is the one adopted by Franscico Chinesta for his Ecole Centrale de Nantes course. Although the content is targeted at top-level engineering students, this volume also addresses a non-scientific audience, giving everyone a chance to marvel at scientific research. Chinesta's chronological approach allows readers to understand how the world has gradually revealed its secrets through scientific observation, hypotheses, counterhypotheses and experimentation. Meanwhile a whole range of scientific phenomena is explained, tram why the sky is blue to what is a black hole. e simple language of the volume and titan . to hundreds of illustrations, physics to non the latest available to all.
Quantum mechanics is one of the principle pillars of modern physics. It also remains a topic of great interest to mathematicians. Since its discovery it has inspired and been inspired by many topics within modern mathematics, including functional analysis and operator algebras, Lie groups, Lie algebras and their representations, principle bundles, distribution theory, and much more. Written with beginning graduate students in mathematics in mind, this book provides a thorough treatment of (nonrelativistic) quantum mechanics in a style that is leisurely, without the usual theorem-proof grammar of pure mathematics, while remaining mathematically honest. The author takes the time to fully develop the required mathematics and employs a consistent mathematical presentation to clarify the often-confusing notation of physics texts. Along the way the reader encounters several topics requiring more advanced mathematics than found in many discussions of the subject, making for a fascinating course in how mathematics and physics interact.