Amir D. Aczel, Author . Four Walls Eight Windows $25 (320p) ISBN 978-1-56858-232-0
In his newest book, Aczel (Fermat's Last Theorem) discusses a great mystery in physics: the concept of entanglement in quantum physics. He begins by explaining that "entanglement" occurs when two subatomic particles are somehow connected&
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Amir D. Aczel, Author . Atria $24 (288p) ISBN 978-0-7434-6478-9
Aczel, one of our best science popularizers (Fermat's Last Theorem; The Mystery of the Aleph; etc.), now recounts the triumphs and struggles of the French physicist Léon Foucault (1819–1868), whose eponymous pendulum presented the...
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Amir D. Aczel, Author . Thunder's Mouth $21 (272p) ISBN 978-1-56858-316-7
The baffling, for some, subject of chance and luck is demystified in this sketchy but engaging treatise. Mathematician Aczel (Fermat's Last Theorem
) includes some equations, but mostly sticks to grade-school arithmetic and a few easy story...
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Amir D. Aczel, Author . Broadway $24.95 (273p) ISBN 978-0-7679-2033-9
What Aczel did for mathematician Fermat (Fermat's Last Theorem
) he now does for Descartes in this splendid study about the French philosopher and mathematician (1596–1650) most famous for his paradigm-smashing declaration, "I think;...
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Amir D. Aczel, Author . Thunder's Mouth $23.95 (239p) ISBN 978-1-56025-931-2
Lay readers interested in mathematical history will learn a lot they didn't know from Aczel's latest book, which focuses on a group of French mathematicians who in the 1930s decided to publish their collective work under an imaginary name....
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Amir D. Aczel, Author . Riverhead $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-59448-956-3
Science popularizer Aczel (Fermat’s Last Theorem
) offers an uninspired and all-too-brief look at a remarkable subject. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881–1956) succeeded in melding his life as a Jesuit priest and as a scientist at a time...
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Amir D. Aczel, Crown, $25.99 (288p) ISBN 9780307591678
Dan Brown fans and science buffs alike will be familiar with CERN (The European Organization for Nuclear Research), where scientists probe the origins of our universe using the largest and most powerful machine ever created, the Large Hadron...
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Amir D. Aczel, Author John Wiley & Sons $25.95 (242p) ISBN 978-0-470-37353-8
Archeologist Aczel (Fermat's Last Theorem, The Jesuit and the Skull, etc.) has visited most of the Paleolithic caves still open to the public, and spent years researching European cave art, attempting to explain ""the appearance, around 32,000...
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Amir D. Aczel, Author Palgrave MacMillan $27 (248p) ISBN 978-0-230-61374-4
Author and Boston University research fellow Aczel (Fermat's Last Theorem) shares a scientist's history of nuclear chemistry in the 20th century, and its eventual application in the form of the atomic bomb. In the first half, Aczel covers...
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Amir D. Aczel, Author Basic Books $18 (200p) ISBN 978-1-56858-077-7
Famous--and infamous--as an editor and teacher, Lish's stock in trade as a writer is an in-your-face eccentricity. His fiction flaunts autobiographical details, and here, with his usual audacity, Lish takes the tragedy of his wife's long dying and...
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Amir D. Aczel, Author Basic Books $22 (272p) ISBN 978-1-56858-139-2
For decades, scientists have debated whether the universe will eventually collapse upon itself, will expand until it reaches an optimal size and remain steady, or will expand forever. To most everyone's surprise, studies of particular huge...
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Amir D. Aczel, Author Basic Books $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-1-56858-105-7
Aczel's compact and fascinating work of mathematical popularization uses the life and work of the German mathematician Georg Cantor (1845-1918) to describe the history of infinity--of human thought about boundlessly large numbers, sequences and sets.
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Amir D. Aczel. Sterling, $24.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-4027-8584-9
Prolific science writer Aczel offers a grab bag of biographical sketches of important mathematicians: starting with the “rope-pullers” in ancient Egypt, who determined property lines for farmers’ fields after the Nile floods receded each spring....
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Amir D. Aczel. Palgrave Macmillan, $26 (256p) ISBN 978-1-137-27984-2
Prolific mathematics writer Aczel (Why Science Does Not Disprove God) leads a historical adventure that doubles as a surprisingly engaging math lesson. Fascinated with numbers and their origins from an early age, it’s no surprise Aczel became a...
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