Charles Seife

The history of a controversial but important number begins with its inventors, the Babylonians, and follows its tumultuous and fascinating story to the present era of supercomputers and quantum physics. Reprint.

The Biography of a Dangerous Idea

Zero

The best-selling author of New York Times Notable Book Zero shows how mathematical misinformation pervades--and shapes--people's daily lives and is used to bring down government officials, convict the innocent, ruin the U.S. economy and more.

The Dark Arts of Mathematical Deception

Proofiness

The award-winning author of Proofiness and Zero explains how to separate fact from misinformation online, covering a wide range of interests from breaking news stories and online dating to program trading and Wikipedia.

Just Because the Internet Told You, How Do You Know It's True?

Virtual Unreality

Chronicles the last half century's haphazard attempt to harness fusion energy, describing how governments and research teams throughout the world have employed measures ranging from the controversial to the humorous.

The Strange History of Fusion and the Science of Wishful Thinking

Sun in a Bottle

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The author of Zero explains the scientific revolution that is transforming the way we understand our world Previously the domain of philosophers and linguists, information theory has now moved beyond the province of code breakers to become the crucial science of our time. In Decoding the Universe, Charles Seife draws on his gift for making cutting-edge science accessible to explain how this new tool is deciphering everything from the purpose of our DNA to the parallel universes of our Byzantine cosmos. The result is an exhilarating adventure that deftly combines cryptology, physics, biology, and mathematics to cast light on the new understanding of the laws that govern life and the universe.

How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everythingin the Cosmos, fromOu r Brains to Black Holes

Decoding the Universe

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A "biography" of the most vexing and troublesome number in human history reveals how the Babylonians invented it, why the Greeks were afraid of it and the Hindus worshipped, the role it played in hunting down heretics in the Middle Ages, and its current place in the Y2K issue. Original.

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Alfa ve omega

Draws on new cosmological discoveries to reveal what today's scientists are learning about the beginning and fate of the universe, citing theories in dark matter, dark energy, and the particle zoo to make predictions on how the universe will end. first printing.

The Search for the Beginning and End of the Universe

Alpha & Omega

Lehetséges, hogy a Stephen Hawkingot körülölelő mítosz csak részben fedi a valóságot, és jó példa a tudatos brandépítésre? Hawking a kozmológia legfontosabb kérdéseit kutatta, és már életében az egyik legbriliánsabb elmének tartották, hírnevét mégsem elsősorban tudományos tevékenységének köszönhette. Mestere volt az önreklámozásnak: partit rendezett az időutazóknak, megünnepelte a győzelmét olyan tudományos vitákban, amelyekben valójában nem is volt igaza, bűvkörébe vonta a milliárdos mecénásokat. A közvélemény valósággal csüngött a szavain: a kerekesszékében mozdulatlanul ülő tudósban az intellektus legtisztább megnyilvánulását látta. A tudományos újságíró, Charles Seife eredeti megközelítésű és tudományos alaposságú könyvében nemcsak megismertet Hawking munkásságával és a legfontosabb eredményeivel, de annak is utánajár, rosszul gondoljuk-e, hogy sokat köszönhet neki az emberiség? A szerző az időben kvantumugrásokkal haladva, rétegről rétegre fejti fel, milyen elemekből született és épült fel a mítosz, vagyis hogyan lett Stephen Hawkingból, a fizikusból ikonikus jelenség.

Tudós, celeb, zseni

Hawking, Hawking

The bestselling author of "Zero" shows how mathematical misinformation pervades-- and shapes-- our daily lives.

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Als Stephen Hawking in den frühen 1960er Jahren mit seiner Forschung begann, war sein Fach, die Kosmologie, eine verschlafene Disziplin, die über Jahrzehnte keine wesentlichen Fortschritte erlebt hatte. Als er 2018 starb, war es das wohl aufregendste Forschungsgebiet der Physik, das einen Nobelpreis nach dem anderen einheimst. Und Stephen Hawking galt weithin als der beste Physiker der Welt, wenn nicht sogar als der klügste Mensch. Charles Seife zeigt in seiner Biografie, wie es dazu kam. In seiner Doktorarbeit von 1965 wies Hawking nach, dass der Urknall, aus dem das Universum entstand, ein unendlich kleiner Punkt sein muss, für den die Gesetze der Physik nicht gelten. Dieses "Singularitätstheorem" beflügelte seine Karriere. Anschließend gelangen ihm spektakuläre Entdeckungen über schwarze Löcher und die Frühzeit des Universums. Aufgrund von amyotropher Lateralsklerose begannen Hawkings Kräfte zu schwinden; seit den achtziger Jahren war er vollständig gelähmt und konnte nicht mehr sprechen. Glücklicherweise war er eine internationale Berühmtheit, Autor des Bestsellers "Eine kurze Geschichte der Zeit" (1988) und konnte sich so die Armee von Betreuern leisten, die es ihm ermöglichte zu Hause zu leben, zu arbeiten, zu kommunizieren, Kontakte zu pflegen und die Welt zu bereisen. Die mediale Öffentlichkeit ignorierte weithin seine Entdeckungen, war aber besessen von seiner Behinderung, seinem Privatleben und seinen "Äußerungen". Jeder Skandal, wie etwa seine Vorliebe für Swingerclubs, trug zur Legende bei. Diese aufregende, nicht immer schmeichelhafte Biografie erklärt nicht nur Hawkings komplexe Wissenschaft anschaulicher als er selbst, sondern zeichnet auch das verstörende Porträt einer vorsätzlichen Mythenbildung.

Genie des Universums

Stephen Hawking

Since A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME scientists have been in the midst of a revolution in cosmology. Gradually, astronomers and physicists are answering questions that have plagued mankind since prehistory: how was the universe born, how will it end? They are even now peering into the cradle of the universe - and into its grave. By the beginning of next year, scientists will have a clue to some of the answers. These will be among the greatest triumphs of science. This book tells that story and will reveal results of the most advanced experiments in cosmology ever conducted. It's a tale of men solving the insoluble, of the controversy and anger of rivals after the same goal. Even more thrillingly - it is a lucid explanation of new scientific ideas that stretch man's powers of understanding to their highest levels.

The Search For The Beginning And The End Of The Universe

Alpha And Omega

How Stephen Hawking became the most brilliant man alive When Stephen Hawking died, he was widely recognized as the world's best physicist, and even its smartest person. He was neither. In Hawking Hawking, science journalist Charles Seife explores how Stephen Hawking came to be thought of as humanity's greatest genius. Hawking spent his career grappling with deep questions in physics, but his renown didn't rest on his science. He was a master of self-promotion, hosting parties for time travelers, declaring victory over problems he had not solved, and wooing billionaires. Confined to a wheelchair and physically dependent on a cadre of devotees, Hawking still managed to captivate the people around him-and use them for his own purposes. A brilliant exposé and powerful biography, Hawking Hawking uncovers the authentic Hawking buried underneath the fake. It is the story of a man whose brilliance in physics was matched by his genius for building his own myth.

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