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2 Rebecca Stott Darwin's ghosts: In Search of the First Evolutionists 024770 2012 Book  
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TitleAlex's adventures in numberland: Dispatches From the Wonderful World of Mathematics
Author(s)Alex Bellos
PublicationLondon, Bloomsbury, 2010.
Description448p.
Abstract NoteThe world of maths can seem mind-boggling, irrelevant and, let's face it, boring. This groundbreaking book reclaims maths from the geeks. Mathematical ideas underpin just about everything in our lives: from the surprising geometry of the 50p piece to how probability can help you win in any casino. In search of weird and wonderful mathematical phenomena, Alex Bellos travels across the globe and meets the world's fastest mental calculators in Germany and a startlingly numerate chimpanzee in Japan. Packed with fascinating, eye-opening anecdotes, Alex's Adventures in Numberland is an exhilarating cocktail of history, reportage and mathematical proofs that will leave you awestruck.
ISBN,Price9781408809594 : Rs. 399.00(PB)
Classification51-8
Keyword(s)1. MATHEMATICS 2. RECREATIONAL MATHEMATICS
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TitleDarwin's ghosts: In Search of the First Evolutionists
Author(s)Rebecca Stott
PublicationLondon, Bloomsbury, 2012.
Descriptionxv, 383p.
Abstract NoteSoon after the publication of On the Origin of Species, Charles Darwin received an unsettling letter that accused him of taking credit for a theory that had already been discovered by others. Realizing his error of omission, Darwin tried to trace all of the natural philosophers who had laid the groundwork for his theory, but he found that history had already forgotten many of them. Rebecca Stott goes in search of these ghosts, telling the epic story of the discovery of evolution and natural selection from Aristotle to the ninth-century Arab writer Al-Jahiz to Leonardo da Vinci to the brilliant naturalists of the Jardin des Plantes to Alfred Wallace and Erasmus Darwin, and finally to Charles Darwin himself. Evolution was not discovered single-handedly. It was an idea that was advanced over centuries by daring individuals across the globe who had the imagination to speculate on nature’s extraordinary ways—and the courage to articulate such speculations at a time when to do so was often considered heresy.
ISBN,Price9781408809082 : Rs. 1705.00(HB)
Classification92:575.8
Keyword(s)1. BIOGRAPHY - EVOLUTIONISTS 2. EVOLUTIONISTS - BIOGRAPHY 3. ORIGIN OF LIFE
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