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“Bizarro.” “Interesante.” “Tránsito gigantesco” Esas fueron las reacciones de los voluntarios del proyecto Planet Hunters cuando vieron por primera vez el gráfico de la curva de brillo de la estrella KIC 8462852 y de lo que de otra forma fuera aparentemente una estrella como nuestro Sol. De las más de 150,000 estrellas bajo la constante observación durante los cuatro años de la misión primaria Kepler de la NASA (2009-2013), esta estrella en particular se distingue del resto de sus pares por las atenuaciones de su brillo. Aunque casi todas ellas se atribuyen a causas...

In the framework of the 20th International Congress of History of Science (Liege 1997), a symposium was devoted to the historical work of Adolph P. Youschkevitch (1906-1993). The present volume includes the papers read during the symposium as well as contributions on current issues in the history of mathematics: mathematics as a cultural strength, mathematics from antiquity to the classical period, probability theory and its applications, mathematics in the 19th and 20th centuries.

Biographies and bibliographies of members are included in many of the volumes. Lists of members are usually given on covers of the numbers.

The professor of biology Jos Ramn Alonso offers an excellent compilation about the history of the brain in order to explain the evolution of the knowledge, the importance of the brain in our body, its conception, its functions, its role, diseases, psychiatry, surgery, neuroscience and much, much more.