El paradigma paradójico

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.

Humanity's understanding of the physical world is full of gaps. Not tiny little gaps you can safely ignore -- there are huge yawning voids in our basic notions of how the world works. Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson team up to explore everything we don't know about the universe, and while introducing the biggest mysteries in physics, they also helpfully demystify many complicated things we do know. And although the universe is full of weird things that don't make any sense, Cham and Whiteson make a case that the questions we can't answer are as interesting as the ones we can, and they invite...

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

La literatura científica acerca del agua es cuantiosa. Probablemente no exista otro objeto natural tan visitado por tantos autores en la ciencia. Sin embargo. los estudiosos del agua, tal y como está presente en todo el entorno humano, no abundan. El presente libro es precisamente un tratado simplificado hecho por un científico tan admirable como Juan Reynerio Fagundo y su colectivo de trabajo. Se trata de uno de esos pocos estudiosos de casi todo lo que tiene que ver con el agua que nos sustenta, la de nuestra vida diaria y la de nuestra ciencia, desde las cuevas cársicas cubanas hasta...