Stewart, Ian
Summary: In Significant Figures, acclaimed mathematician Ian Stewart introduces the visionaries of mathematics throughout history. Delving into the lives of twenty-five great mathematicians, Stewart examines the roles they played in creating, inventing, and discovering the mathematics we use today. Through these short biographies, we get acquainted with the history of mathematics from Archimedes to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2017
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Summary: "An esteemed mathematician shows how math powers the world, from technology to health care and beyond"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2021
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Summary: Bestselling author Professor Ian Stewart explores the history and mathematics of uncertainty. Touching on gambling, probability, statistics, financial and weather forecasts, censuses, medical studies, chaos, quantum physics, and climate, he makes one thing clear: a reasonable probability is the only certainty.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books 2019
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Contents: Why do math? -- How I almost became a lawyer -- The breadth of mathematics -- Hasn't it all been done? -- Surrounded by math -- How mathematicians think -- How to learn math -- Fear of proofs -- Can't computers solve everything? -- Mathematical storytelling -- Going for the jugular -- Blockbusters -- Impossible problems -- The career ladder -- Pure or applied? -- Where do you get those crazy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group 2006
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Summary: Hidden in the heart of the theory of relativity, quantum mechanics, string theory, and modern cosmology lies one concept: symmetry." "Symmetry has been a key idea for artists, architects and musicians for centuries, but within mathematics it remained, until very recently, an arcane pursuit. In the twentieth century, however, symmetry emerged as central to the most fundamental ideas in physics...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group 2007
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Summary: A collection of rarely heard radio recordings from the Stones formative years. The songs, including eight tracks the band have never recorded or released commercially, were originally broadcast on Bygone UK shows such as Saturday Club, and Rhythm and Blues between 1963 and 1965.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Music Enterprises 2017
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ROLMott the Hoople
Summary: "The Ballad of Mott the Hoople is a feature length documentary that tells the story of one of England's most cherished rock 'n' roll bands, Mott the Hoople..."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Start Productions 2011
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Summary: Concert performance recorded live August 9, 2004, at the Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, Tenn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Note Records 2004
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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC NORAbbott, Edwin Abbott
Summary: The first-ever annotated edition of the beloved classic is beautifully illustrated and brilliantly brought to life for a new generation of readers. Published in 1884 by an English clergyman and headmaster, it is a fanciful tale of A. Square, a two-dimensional being visiting a three-dimensional world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Pub. 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 530.11 ABBSummary: In New Hampshire in 1777, Dick Dudgeon's father dies. Called back home to the unhappy family he revolted against years ago, Dick finds he's been named heir, much to the horror of his religious mother. To complicate matters, the British have arrived.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2006
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DEVSummary: As the public becomes aware of genetic mutants with special powers and prejudice grow against them, Professor Xavier brings them together to harness their powers for the good of mankind and to combat the evil Magneto; When a military leader hatches a plan to eradicate mutants, the X-men form an alliance with their old enemy Magneto to try and stop him; When science announces a cure for mutant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE X-MESummary: Chronicles the beginnings of professor Xavier's super-powered X-students. The battle focuses on their primary sinister foe, Magneto, who has his mutant minions at his side. A George Wallace-like senator launchs a campaign against mutantkind which, of course, only complicates things for our heroes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie X-Men 2002Summary: "Born into a world filled with prejudice are children who possess extraordinary and dangerous powers - the result of unique genetic mutations. But under the tutelage of Professor Xavier, these and other outcasts learn to harness their powers for the good of mankind. Now they must protect those who fear them as the nefarious Magneto, who believes humans and mutants can never co-exist, unveils...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD XMESummary: European mercenaries searching for black powder become embroiled in the defense of the Great Wall of China against a horde of monstrous creatures.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017