The Shape of Space (Pure and Applied Mathematics)

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Maintaining the standard of excellence set by the previous edition, this textbook covers the basic geometry of two- and three-dimensional spaces Written by a master expositor, leading researcher in the field, and MacArthur Fellow, it includes experiments to determine the true shape of the universe and contains illustrated examples and engaging exercises that teach mind-expanding ideas in an intuitive and informal way. Bridging the gap from geometry to the latest work in observational cosmology, the book illustrates the connection between geometry and the behavior of the physical universe and explains how radiation remaining from the big bang may reveal the actual shape of the universe.

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Magic book on Topology for educated commons.......2007-08-05

This is a great book for anyone who is interest in Mathematical Topology and Cosmology Topology. This book does not require a reader to have strong mathematics knowledge. It only requires a reader to have patience to think and solve some problems in the book. The most brilliant point in this book is using diagrams to illustrate the Topology concepts, such as Manifold. This help the reader to get a "feeling" of some really difficult concepts in Topology. This book should be a classic like "Flatland".

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The joy of math.......2007-08-02

I have a bachelors degree in Math.

As Feynman said, what we really mean by math is careful reasoning. This book brings you the joy of careful reasoning, guided by an expert.

Perhaps what turns some people off math in school is that the supreme example of careful reasoning is the mathematical PROOF. (Or perhaps it's just that most math teachers are so poor.) A proof tends to look dull and ponderous on the outside, and a student can easily miss the beauty of the underlying ideas. On the other hand, for your own amusement you can figure something out to your own satisfaction, without necessarily constructing a watertight proof. This book helps you do just that.

Many newspapers contain Sudoku problems, often with the reassuring claim that no math is required! People who hated math in school can be seen working happily on Sudoku puzzles, for the sheer joy of exercising their ability to reason carefully. The same ability would bring them far more joy while reading this book and answering the puzzles/exercises spinkled throughout.

Excellent Introduction, No Assumptions.......2007-07-05

This text is non-intimidating as an introduction to topology. Weeks carefully guides the reader through the building blocks of torii, Moebius strips, projective planes, and other surfaces. After working appropriate exercises, the reader gets a chance to visualize 3-manifolds and connected sums. Some aspects of these two topics can be difficult to explain, but analogies are applied to make understanding attainable. Further, figures and illustrations exist throughout the text, and these are definitely helpful for visualizing connected sums and non-orientable surfaces (both one-sided and two-sided).

(I especially like the approach to the Gauss-Bonet theorem using double lunes. It is a carefully crafted derivation with plenty of illustrations to avoid confusion.)

Some may think this text is too simple, but it is a "must read" for anyone who has not encountered topology and who wants to do individual research on the topic. Many texts claim to be introductory texts, but they are actually designed for those who already have a degree in math and who have seen similar subject matter. However, this one is definitely for "newbies." So don't worry.

Interesting book.......2006-11-26

This is a painless way to learn some advanced topology--or at least to gain insight. It's almost a picture book. Most problems include solutions and require only a few minutes of thought. They are also worth solving.

Now that I understand what is meant be a certain topology of the cosmos, I'm astounded that anybody actually considers it possible. Fascinating.

Easy Reading.......2006-02-20

This is a very good book for people whom have a light background in math. It is a readable book and great introduction into manifolds and torus. As a mathematican I am amazed with the quality of material, examples, and thus provide one with the ability to understand the topics. I plan to use this book and some of its topics in future teachings. Thus I recommend this book for anyone especially for people who struggle with math.

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A Geometrical Journey

Symmetry, Shape and Space
L.Christine Kinsey , and Teresa E. Moore
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ASIN: 1930190093

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This text is suitable for introductory students, perhaps in programs such as education, art and architecture. The text contains some traditional material from geometry as well as more innovative topics. Throughout the text, the authors place strong emphasis on pedagogy, hands-on model building, a guided discovery method of learning, etc. Much of the material is written in such a way that it can be used in the classroom for enrichment projects, by prospective mathematics teachers.

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fails to help.......2007-09-10

Sorry, any text book without a glossary fails its primary goal of making its information accessible.

Good Book.......2007-02-08

The book does a good job of reintroducing basic geometry to the more remedial college mathematician. It also does a fine job of introducing higher order geometry. However, the best quality of the book is its ever present agenda to relate geometry to real life situations. This helped to give me a reason to study geometry for practical purposes. Too bad my professor is a douchebag.

A Geometrical Journey.......2005-12-03

This book will well serve any student who wants an interesting, visual approach to mathematics. A plethora of topics are explored including constructions, tessalations, other dimensions-the fourth dimension, polyhedra, three-dimensional symmetry, spiral growth, shape, graph theory, and topology.
All topics are presented, for the most part, in an intuitive, visual manner making it much easier for the average reader to grasp the concepts being presented. Students are required to analyze patterns thereby enhancing their analytical and visualization skills. Each chapter is presented in a stand alone manner. The book is well written and replete with numerous high quality drawings. The text would well serve
any instructor who is presenting a course for liberal arts students, a course in mathematics for teachers, or an enrichment course for high school students. The book would also provide an excellent, self-study guide for high school students who are interested in a gentle guide to mathematics outside the standard high school: algebra, plane geometry, and pre-calculus curriculum. An excellent and extensive biography is provided for the reader who wants to delve deeper into any of the many topics covered in the text. Overall, an excellent introductory text to the many facets of geometry.

Captain Invincible and the Space Shapes (MathStart 2)

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Super book!

Captain Invincible and the Space Shapes (MathStart 2)
Stuart J. Murphy
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Captain Invincible and his intrepid space-dog, Comet, are on a perilous journey back to Earth!

Throughout their mission, the fearless captain and his canine sidekick encounter asteroids, poisonous gas, and alien beings. But will their knowledge of three-dimensional shapes, including cubes, cones, and pyramids, help our heroes navigate past these obstacles -- and make it safely home?

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Super book!.......2003-10-02

Set in a comic book format, this book has been a favorite of my 4 year old son since we bought it. A very simple book, and very appropriate for preschoolers. The writing is a little lame at one point, but my son doesn't care and thoroughly enjoys this book ( and he's learned some simple math concepts without realizing he's been taught).

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Quite charming book on polyhedra
Little Gem
An excellent introduction to Archimedean Star Polyhedra
A beautiful, simple and elegant book on polyhedra

Shapes, Space, and Symmetry
Alan Holden
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This book explains the structure of the 9 regular solids, including the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron, plus many semiregular solids. It demonstrates how they can be used to explain mathematics visually rather than by symbol systems, and includes instructions for constructing cardboard models. Over 300 illustrations. 1971 edition.

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Quite charming book on polyhedra.......2006-11-23

This book illustrates many beautiful ideas through photographs of paper models with concise commentary. First the regular polyhedra, of course, followed by variations of the models that brings out their duality and symmetry properties. We also study how the regular polyhedra can be compounded, inscribed in each-other, and pasted together along a common cross-section ("when halves of the Platonic solids having the same cross-sections come together, monsters are born"). We also study truncating the regular polyhedra to obtain the semi-regular polyhedra, stellating to obtain non-convex regular solids, and faceting to obtain non-convex semi-regular polyhedra. There is a deplorably short but somewhat useful section with practical advice on building models. "Suitable cardboard is of the sort used for mounting photographs, and suitable glue is a 'white glue' of the sort exemplified by 'Elmer's Glue-all' ... For several hours the joints remain sufficiently flexible to permit adjustment of the dihedral angle". It's a pity that we are advised to construct the sides of the regular polyhedra by unromantic means; equilateral triangles are to be made using "a draftsman's 30-60-90 triangle" and the construction of a regular pentagon "requires a guide made of heavier cardboard, such as an illustration board, with two edges meeting at the desired angle"---obviously you will want to construct the faces using ruler-and-compass constructions.

Little Gem.......2002-01-19

Alan Holden must be a very dedicated man. This short book on polyhedra is filled with pictures of intricate paper models, all made by the author. In the final section, showing how to construct similar models, one can see a photo of his workshop with hundreds of models arrayed neatly on shelves behind him. This book was clearly a work of love.

Most of the book is occupied with a treatment of regular and semiregular polyhedra, prisms and antiprisms. These are examined in some depth--for example, all nine regular polyhedra are constructed. The last fifty pages introduce other topics, such as packing, lattices, and knots; the treatment here is very brief, somewhat disappointing and leaving a desire for more depth. The same can be said of the final section, on construction--Holden gives general guidelines but leaves the reader to compute the dimensions of all the faces of his models himself.

The prose is clear and concise, rare for a mathematics book. But the real substance lies in the photographs of polyhedra models. These are contructed in such a way that it is always easy to see the details of the solid: faces of different shapes are made of different shades of paper, complicated models are shown in intermediate stages of construction, polyhedra to be compared (such as duals) are shown as individuals and interpenetrating. The great icosidodecahedron photo on page 112 (or its companion that might go by the same name on page 98) is almost worth the price of the book by itself.

This is not a rigorous treatment of the subject, but it is a beautiful one.

An excellent introduction to Archimedean Star Polyhedra.......2001-02-14

This well-made and inexpensive book is brim-full of pictures of Alan Holden's models of polyhedra. It is a book for the hobbyist and the enthusiastic closet Pythagorean, more than it is for the professional mathematician. It is especially useful as an introduction to Archimedean star polyhedra, which are surely as beautiful as anything in geometry, and which were not fully catalogued until the 1950s.

If you find this material as compellingly fascinating as I do, you may want to follow up this book with these two:

"Polyhedron Models," by Magnus Wenninger, has a more thorough and systematic treatment of the Archimedean star polyhedra than Holden's book. These include some incredibly complicated models of "snub" star polyhedra -- spectacular stuff that is not included here. (On the other hand, Wenninger's book costs a good deal more.)

"Regular Polytopes," by H.S.M. Coxeter, is an elegantly written introduction to polyhedra in 3 and 4 dimensions. Coxeter himself wrote the first systematic treatment of the Archimedean star-polyhedra, and helped to discover the last few in the process. This book's illustrations are nowhere near as nice as the other ones', but this is balanced by its more rigorous mathematical treatment of the theme. Somebody needs to come up with a better way (using computer graphics?) to illustrate higher-dimensional polyhedra. In the meantime, this inexpensive book is the best I know on the subject.

A beautiful, simple and elegant book on polyhedra.......1998-11-01

A friend of mine lent me this book in 1975. (I still haven't given it back). Although this 200 page book is very simply and clearly written, I have never been able to sit down and read it from start to finish. Each part I read makes me stop and contemplate. After 24 years I still find new things in it! The book starts out describing the five Platonic solids. Next it explores the dualities: between the octahedron and cube, between the dodecahedron and icosohedron, and between the tetrahedron with itself. Holden talks about solids discovered by Kepler and Poinsot, space filling solids other than the cube, Nolids, lattices and a whole lot more. He also describes how to make your own models with cardboard and Elmers' glue. Doug Kendall's photographs of Holden's models are very pleasing. This is my favorite book.

Visual Design Fundamentals, Second Edition: A Digital Approach (Graphics Series)

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can use with any design program
Back to the Fundamentals.
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Two Books In One
A self-teaching guide for artists and designers

Visual Design Fundamentals, Second Edition: A Digital Approach (Graphics Series)
Alan Hashimoto
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Visual Design Fundamentals: A Digital Approach, Second Edition has been completely updated to provide new insights and hands-on tutorials using the latest technology, including Adobe® Illustrator® and Photoshop®. The book teaches the foundational information that artists and designers need to know to understand the art of two-dimensional visual design. It explores the classic elements of design (line, shape, form, value, color, and texture) and their relationship to balance, harmony, variety, and other classic design principles. The theories presented are well-established ideas in all forms of two-dimensional art and design, including drawing, painting, printmaking, graphics, and general design. These principles may also be applied to interior design, architecture, and industrial design. As artists learn the theories taught throughout the book, they'll put these ideas into practice using a variety of hands-on tutorials covering line & shape, type combinations, letters as design elements, color composition, drawing, photo collages, and more. The tutorials use basic computer skills and techniques, and address classic tools and procedures common to all drawing and paint programs, including Illustrator and Photoshop.

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can use with any design program.......2007-01-25

Hashimoto teaches timeless precepts of visual design. Many of which predate the Internet. The book seems apt for someone already knowing something about Photoshop and Illustrator. It shows how to use those programs to apply changes to a design, in accordance with the precepts. But primarily you benefit at a higher level, in understanding through the book's examples how to use basic key ideas in design. Hence, the book is not necessarily restricted to users of those design programs. If indeed you favour another program not covered here, the book can still be very informative.

By the way, one chapter uses the example of typeface design. This has an air of antiquity about it. Designing letterforms goes back centuries, and has many subtleties that the chapter lets you appreciate.

Back to the Fundamentals........2006-09-30

The advent of the personal computer and design software such as Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop have greatly changed the way in which design work is done. Still, at the fundamental level the essence of good design still require an understanding of the fundamental design theories. The old concepts of line, shape, form, value, color and texture are still fundamental to good design be it of a poster, a kitchen appliance, or an automobile.

This book discusses how to combine the traditional approaches with the advances made possible by digital techniques. This is the second edition and builds on the material covered in the 2003 edition by providing discussion of the more powerful software that is available now.

The CD that comes with the book includes several tutorial projects for the student to complete as well as links to provide trial versions of Illustrator and Photoshop.

Questionable reviews.......2005-06-16

The two other reviews seem questionable. They read like an add for the book.

Honestly, the book has nice illustrations. It is short on design princples, and long on examples. Check out Robin Williams Non-Designer's book as well.

Two Books In One.......2004-07-24

This book is for anyone new to design fundamentals, digital art and computer imaging software. The author, Alan Hashimoto, has written two books in one. First, he discusses the elements and principals of two-dimensional art design and how they apply to both traditional art mediums and the digital art medium. Second, the book is an introduction to digital imaging software. He discusses the difference between object-oriented and paint software. Throughout the book he teaches the basic skills needed for creating artwork on the computer using both Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop. However the two objectives of this book are well integrated. The author has done a great job of demonstrating how to apply traditional design fundamentals to 2D digital art. He then reinforces this with seven digital art projects which help the reader to apply this knowledge while creating computer generated art.

Hashimoto discusses the design elements of line, shape, space, volume, value, color and texture and the principals of design such as unity, variety and balance. His explanations are easy to understand even for the novice and he uses many full-color digital art examples. However the best aspect of this book is the conceptual process used for completing the seven digital projects. This process starts by defining the design challenge and then brainstorming various approaches with thumbnail sketches. Next the design is further refined into roughs which incorporate more details. The final phases of the process are a trial run of the finished design and then the completed design.

The purpose of these seven projects is not only to apply the information in the book to real life examples but to demonstrate how the steps of the conceptual process can be accomplished using the computer. Hashimoto first discusses the traditional methods used for completing the process and then progresses on to digital methods. His step-by-step instructions for the Adobe software are very thorough and easy to follow. Even if you have not used this type of software before, these projects will teach you the basics of the software and how to use it. He also covers related topics such as scanning your artwork into the computer and printing your completed projects. I enjoyed all seven of the projects. But the one that I found especially useful was typeface design.

Project One - Modular Design
Project Two - Letterforms and Shape
Project Three - Figure Abstraction and Non-Objective Shape
Project Four - Value
Project Five - Color Theory
Project Six - Typeface Design
Project Seven - Digital Montage/Collage

Reading this book was like attending an art course at your favorite university. The author's presentation of the information resembled a class lecture which he reinforced with class assignments. So it is no surprise that Alan Hashimoto is an associate professor at Utah State University where he teaches graphic design and computer art. He is also an accomplished artist.

A self-teaching guide for artists and designers.......2004-03-06

Visual Design Fundamentals: A Digital Approach by Alan Hashimoto (Associate Professor of Graphic Design and Computer Art, Utah State University) is a superbly organized and presented resource and self-teaching guide for artists and designers seeking to take advantage of basic computer skills and techniques to create appealing, emotionally charged, and attention-gathering works of two-dimensional art. Visual Design Fundamentals includes straightforward tutorials and projects using Adobe Illustrator CS and Adobe Photoshop CS in order to provide hands-on experience with principles such as modular design, color theory, typeface design, figure abstraction, and more. An included CD offers files needed to complete the projects and trial versions of Adobe Illustrator and Adobe Photoshop. Highly recommended for an graphic artist seeking to create and utilize computer generated illustrations and/or designs, Visual Design Fundamentals is replete with both black-and-white and color illustrations throughout which wonderfully enhance the detailed, practical, "user friendly" instructions.

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Beautiful pictures and cute!!
Simple, Colorful
Excellent Resource to Help Teach Comparatives/Superlatives
children learn a variety of concepts while having fun

Blue Sea
Robert Kalan
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"On a deep-blue background, the words 'blue sea' appear...and then the first of Crews's eye-filling paintings....The author and illustrator of Rain have invented another winner."--Publishers Weekly.

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Beautiful pictures and cute!!.......2005-10-07

My kids love reading this book. When the bigger fish can't get through the hole, the word is "OUCH". My kids love that, and think it's so funny. Beautiful book and cute! I found this book elsewhere for less than $6.

Simple, Colorful.......2005-09-13

I purchased this book because it was part of the continued reading list for Teach Your Child To Read In 100 Easy Lessons. My daughters like it a lot and my 7y.o. asks if she can read it to her dad and grandparents.

It's a very simple book with few words and bold colors...a great confidence booster, yet doesn't loose a child's interest.

Excellent Resource to Help Teach Comparatives/Superlatives.......2002-09-19

"Blue Sea" is a delightful book to help the beginner/elementary reader learn simple comparative and superlative adjectives. "Small," "Smaller," "Smallest," and "Big," "Bigger," "Biggest" are mentioned in this 21-page story that averages about 3-4 words per page. The text is large, and the visuals are simple, colorful, and uncluttered.

children learn a variety of concepts while having fun.......1999-10-05

I work with small children as a speech therapist and have found that this book teaches many different concepts in only a few pages. The little ones request it over and over again, even those who cannot yet ask verbally. The text is crisp and concise, and the pictures invite children to offer comments throughout the book. It is possible to read this book over and over and discuss many different concepts while having a lot of fun. I am on my way to wearing out my second copy.

Just Six Numbers : The Deep Forces that Shape the Universe

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very interesting.
Excellent Overview of Cosmology
Fine Tuning
An interesting book!
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Just Six Numbers : The Deep Forces that Shape the Universe
Martin J. Rees , and Martin Rees
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Just six numbers govern the shape, size, and texture of our universe. If their values were only fractionally different, we would not exist: nor, in many cases, would matter have had a chance to form. If the numbers that govern our universe were elegant--1, say, or pi, or the Golden Mean--we would simply shrug and say that the universe was an elegant mathematical puzzle. But the numbers Martin Rees discusses are far from tidy. Was the universe "tweaked" or is it one of many universes, all run by slightly different, but equally messy, rules?

This is familiar ground, though rarely so comprehensively explored. What makes Rees's book exceptional is his conviction that cosmology is as materialistic and as conceptually simple as any of the earth sciences. Indeed,

cosmology is simpler in one important respect: once the starting point is specified, the outcome is in broad terms predictable. All large patches of the universe that start off the same way end up statistically similar. In contrast, if the Earth's history were re-run, it could end up with a quite different biosphere.

Rees demonstrates how the cosmos is full of "fossils" from which we can deduce how our universe developed as surely as we infer the earth's past from the relics found in sedimentary rocks. Rees's theme is nothing less than the colossal richness of the universe. It is an ambitious book, but if anything, it deserves to be longer. --Simon Ings, Amazon.co.uk

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The genesis of the universe elegantly explained in a simple theory based on just six numbers by one of the world's most renowned astrophysicists

How did a single genesis event-the Big Bang-create the billions of galaxies, black holes, stars, and planets that make up our universe? How did atoms manage to assemble themselves into living beings (here on earth, and perhaps on other worlds) who are sufficiently intricate and complex to have the consciousness to ponder their origins?

In Just Six Numbers, the answers to these questions are connected, just as a deep connection exists between stars and atoms, the cosmos and the microworld. Employing data from new discoveries, Rees offers remarkable insights into the nature of all beings. And it comes down to just six numbers....

Just six numbers that are imprinted in the Big Bang and determine the essential nature and cosmic evolution of our entire physical world. The merest "untuning" of any one of them could result in no universe, no stars, no life of any kind. Rees's stunning discovery offers a radically new perspective on the cosmos, our place in it, and the nature of physical laws.

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very interesting........2006-11-03

One of the most interesting scientific books I've ever read.
I think there is a deep religious implication to the numbers described in the book.
We cannot possibly believe it is all just luck.

Excellent Overview of Cosmology.......2006-10-08

There are many books on cosmology that cover essentially the same material. As can be expected, some of these books are better written than others. In my opinion, this small book is one of the better ones. Combining the very large, e.g., the universe, galaxies, etc., with the very small, e.g., atoms, nuclei and sub-atomic particles, the author discusses six numbers whose values are essential to our existence. He explains that if the value of any of these numbers was different from what it is, we would not be here to contemplate them. He also explains, in very lucid prose, why that is. The author's writing style is very clear - something that is essential when discussing such a complex subject - and quite engaging. This book would be of most interest to science buffs, but it can also be enjoyed by anyone wanting to know more about the strange, non-everyday concepts that fuel the field of cosmology.

Fine Tuning.......2006-06-21

ESSENTIAL reading for anyone interested in the cosmos. Just Six Numbers are the key properties of this universe. The slightest tweaking and this universe as it is would not exist.

Rees calculates the odds of the suite of universes capable of evolving sentitent beings to discuss said universe at one in 10 to the 243 power!!!!!!!!!!

Marvelous book that makes you marvel even more.

An interesting book!.......2005-10-21

You should read this book if you are interested in cosmology. The six numbers mentioned in the book are too amazing.

Expansive Insight.......2004-10-07

"There are three great frontiers in science: the very big, the very small and the very complex. Cosmology involves them all." - Sir Martin Rees.

It takes sound grasp, knowledge and intellect to explain with clarity and simplicity. Sir Martin Rees achieves this here. He provides a useful, absorbing and accessible contribution to lay understanding of cosmology, astrophysics, mathematical astrophysics and so on.

In explaining why a 'Big Bang' (or 'Expansion') might account for our universe, Martin Rees pins his exposition around six key properties: 2 relating to basic forces, 2 to scale and structure, and 2 describing space.

By the end of this book you will understand more about cosmology and how it relates to chemistry, Newton's laws, the general theory of relativity, quantum mechanics, superstring & membrane theory, the search for a Grand Unification Theory, and so on.

Sir Martin also admits what remains to be discovered and how this might refine or deflate the 'Big Bang'. He also explores alternate theories and challenges (but does not here address 'Plasma Cosmology' or the revived interest in 'scalar particles'. However, due to the rate of new ideas entering the field since any such book's publication, this kind of omission is inevitable). Mercifully he does not embrace or expound any facile drivel of the 'Goddidit' variety.

If you wish to broaden or deepen your comprehension of cosmology, you will develop fascinating insights and a more encompassing horizon on the subject here.

The shape of the data: Statistics (Investigations in number, data, and space)

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Spectral Line Shapes: 18th International Conference on Spectral Line Shapes (AIP Conference Proceedings / Atomic, Molecular, Chemical Physics)

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Spectral Line Shapes: 18th International Conference on Spectral Line Shapes (AIP Conference Proceedings / Atomic, Molecular, Chemical Physics)

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Studies of spectral line shapes, on the fundamental side, reveal the underlying atomic and molecular interactions. On the practical side, they are employed as powerful diagnostic tools for the energy pursuit via controlled fusion, for technological gas discharges, for the atmosphere of the Earth, the Sun, and other stars.

Making Shapes and Building Blocks: Kindergarten : Also Appropriate for Grade 1 (Investigations in Number, Data, and Space)

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Making Shapes and Building Blocks: Kindergarten : Also Appropriate for Grade 1 (Investigations in Number, Data, and Space)
Karen Economopoulos , Megan Murray , Kim O'Neil , Doug Clements , Julie Sarama , and Susan Jo Russell
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