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Author | : Catherine Jami |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 453 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199601402 |
Jami explores how the emperor Kangxi solidified the Qing dynasty in 17th-century China through the appropriation of the 'Western learning', and especially the mathematics, of Jesuit missionaries. This text details not only the history of mathematical ideas, but also their political and cultural impact.
Author | : Roger Penrose |
Publisher | : Oxford Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 634 |
Release | : 1999-03-04 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 0192861980 |
Winner of the Wolf Prize for his contribution to our understanding of the universe, Penrose takes on the question of whether artificial intelligence will ever approach the intricacy of the human mind. 144 illustrations.
Author | : Roger Penrose |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 636 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 0198784929 |
For many decades, the proponents of `artificial intelligence' have maintained that computers will soon be able to do everything that a human can do. In his bestselling work of popular science, Sir Roger Penrose takes us on a fascinating tour through the basic principles of physics, cosmology, mathematics, and philosophy to show that human thinking can never be emulated by a machine. Oxford Landmark Science books are 'must-read' classics of modern science writing which have crystallized big ideas, and shaped the way we think.
Author | : Irving Kirsch |
Publisher | : Basic Books |
Total Pages | : 242 |
Release | : 2010-01-26 |
Genre | : Psychology |
ISBN | : 0465021042 |
Do antidepressants work? Of course -- everyone knows it. Like his colleagues, Irving Kirsch, a researcher and clinical psychologist, for years referred patients to psychiatrists to have their depression treated with drugs before deciding to investigate for himself just how effective the drugs actually were. Over the course of the past fifteen years, however, Kirsch's research -- a thorough analysis of decades of Food and Drug Administration data -- has demonstrated that what everyone knew about antidepressants was wrong. Instead of treating depression with drugs, we've been treating it with suggestion. The Emperor's New Drugs makes an overwhelming case that what had seemed a cornerstone of psychiatric treatment is little more than a faulty consensus. But Kirsch does more than just criticize: he offers a path society can follow so that we stop popping pills and start proper treatment for depression.
Author | : Roger Penrose |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 484 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Computers |
ISBN | : 9780195106466 |
Presents the author's thesis that consciousness, in its manifestation in the human quality of understanding, is doing something that mere computation cannot; and attempts to understand how such non-computational action might arise within scientifically comprehensive physical laws.
Author | : Virginia Pilegard |
Publisher | : Pelican Publishing |
Total Pages | : 33 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : 1455603821 |
In the second century, B.C., a scholar and his son are forced to flee the palace of China's first emperor, and while living in exile the boy discovers that a great terra-cotta army is being built.
Author | : David G. Wells |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2012-10-18 |
Genre | : Games & Activities |
ISBN | : 1107024609 |
A unique book providing a tour through the fascinating connections between mathematics and games.
Author | : Simon Singh |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 266 |
Release | : 2013-01-01 |
Genre | : Mathematics |
ISBN | : 1408835304 |
From bestselling author of Fermat's Last Theorem, a must-have for number lovers and Simpsons fans
Author | : Stephanie Calmenson |
Publisher | : Turtleback Books |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1991-08 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780833571960 |
For use in schools and libraries only. In this version of the Andersen tale, the vain principal of P.S. 88 is persuaded by two tailors that they will make him an amazing, one-of-a-kind, suit that will be visible only to intelligent people.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 40 |
Release | : 1985 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Two rascals sell a vain emperor an invisible suit of clothes.