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    Berlinski, David: Newton's Gift
    Erscheinungsdatum: 01.03.2002, Medium: Taschenbuch, Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, Titel: Newton's Gift, Titelzusatz: How Sir Isaac Newton Unlocked the System of the World, Autor: Berlinski, David, Verlag: Free Press, Sprache: Englisch, Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften // Technik allg., Seiten: 236, Informationen: Paperback, Gewicht: 321 gr, Verkäufer: averdo
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    Berlinski:Differences in Developmental
    Erscheinungsdatum: 03/2010, Medium: Taschenbuch, Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert, Titel: Differences in Developmental Art of Deaf Children and Hearing Children, Titelzusatz: A discovery of important differences in the art of Deaf children when compared to the art of hearing children, Autor: Berlinski, Brian, Verlag: LAP Lambert Acad. Publ., Sprache: Englisch, Rubrik: Kunst // Sonstiges, Seiten: 104, Informationen: Paperback, Gewicht: 173 gr, Verkäufer: averdo
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    Infinite Ascent: A Short History of Mathematics
    In Infinite Ascent, David Berlinski, the acclaimed author of The Advent of the Algorithm, A Tour of the Calculus, and Newton's Gift, tells the story of mathematics, bringing to life with wit, elegance, and deep insight a 2,500-year-long intellectual adventure. Berlinski focuses on the ten most important breakthroughs in mathematical history-and the men behind them. Here are Pythagoras, intoxicated by the mystical significance of numbers; Euclid, who gave the world the very idea of a proof; Leibniz and Newton, co-discoverers of the calculus; Cantor, master of the infinite; and Gödel, who in one magnificent proof placed everything in doubt. The elaboration of mathematical knowledge has meant nothing less than the unfolding of human consciousness itself. With his unmatched ability to make abstract ideas concrete and approachable, Berlinski both tells an engrossing tale and introduces us to the full power of what surely ranks as one of the greatest of all human endeavors.
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    Lion Eyes , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 439min
    Of Claire Berlinski's marvelous debut novel, Loose Lips - a perfect blend of satire, romance, and suspense featuring a young female CIA operative - book critic Frank Bascombe observed: "It's more than a little obvious that [protagonist] Selena Keller is Claire Berlinski." Despite her assertions to the contrary, Berlinski isn't above poking fun at that notion.In Lion Eyes, a fictional Claire - the author of a novel about love among young CIA trainees - is unsuccessfully dodging a deadly Paris heat wave and her even deadlier ex-boyfriend. When she receives an e-mail from an Iranian admirer who wonders how to obtain a copy of Loose Lips in his native city of Esfahan, Claire wastes no time in replying. Her correspondence with the mysterious stranger, Arsalan - whose name means "the Lion" in Persian - quickly becomes personal, then intimate...then obsessive.As Claire heads to Istanbul to find relief from the heat, her electronic flirtation with Arsalan begins, inevitably, to consume her. The boundary between reality and imagination blurs and then disappears. The Lion, meanwhile, is nurturing his own powerful fantasies about the author. To satisfy their growing passion, they agree to meet, back in Paris, but Claire soon learns that someone is secretly intercepting their communications.Suddenly, Claire's romantic dreams start to dissolve. As events take an unimagined, even dangerous turn, and as life begins menacingly to imitate art, Claire discovers that the Lion is not who she thinks he is. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Susan Ericksen. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/brll/001007/bk_brll_001007_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    The Devil's Delusion: Atheism and its Scientific Pretensions , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 367min
    Militant atheism is on the rise. In recent years, Richard Dawkins, Sam Harris, Daniel Dennett, and Christopher Hitchens have produced a steady stream of best-selling books denigrating religious belief. These authors are merely the leading edge of a larger movement that includes much of the scientific community. In response, mathematician David Berlinski, himself a secular Jew, delivers a biting defense of religious thought. The Devil’s Delusion is a brilliant, incisive, and funny book that explores the limits of science and the pretensions of those who insist it is the ultimate touchstone for understanding our world. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dennis Holland. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/013072/bk_adbl_013072_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    A Tour of the Calculus , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 603min
    Were it not for the calculus, mathematicians would have no way to describe the acceleration of a motorcycle or the effect of gravity on thrown balls and distant planets, or to prove that a man could cross a room and eventually touch the opposite wall. Just how calculus makes these things possible and in doing so finds a correspondence between real numbers and the real world is the subject of this dazzling book by a writer of extraordinary clarity and stylistic brio. Even as he initiates us into the mysteries of real numbers, functions, and limits, Berlinski explores the furthest implications of his subject, revealing how the calculus reconciles the precision of numbers with the fluidity of the changing universe. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dennis Holland. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/013071/bk_adbl_013071_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    One, Two, Three: Absolutely Elementary Mathematics , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 394min
    From the acclaimed author of A Tour of the Calculus and The Advent of the Algorithm, here is a riveting look at mathematics that reveals a hidden world in some of its most fundamental concepts. In his latest foray into mathematics, David Berlinski takes on the simplest questions that can be asked: What is a number? How do addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division actually work? What are geometry and logic? As he delves into these subjects, he discovers and lucidly describes the beauty and complexity behind their seemingly simple exteriors, making clear how and why these mercurial, often slippery concepts are essential to who we are. Filled with illuminating historical anecdotes and asides on some of the most fascinating mathematicians through the ages, One, Two, Three is a captivating exploration of the foundation of mathematics: how it originated, who thought of it, and why it matters. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Byron Wagner. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/rand/002623/bk_rand_002623_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 642min
    Simply put, an algorithm is a set of instructions-it's the code that makes computers run. A basic idea that proved elusive for hundreds of years and bent the minds of the greatest thinkers in the world, the algorithm is what made the modern world possible. Without the algorithm, there would have been no computer, no Internet, no virtual reality, no e-mail, or any other technological advance that we rely on every day. In The Advent of the Algorithm, David Berlinski combines science, history, and math to explain and explore the intriguing story of how the algorithm was finally discovered by a succession of mathematicians and logicians, and how this paved the way for the digital age. Beginning with Leibniz and culminating in the middle of the twentieth century with the groundbreaking work of Gdel and Turing, The Advent of the Algorithm is an epic tale told with clarity and imaginative brilliance. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Dennis Holland. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/adbl/013073/bk_adbl_013073_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    Peacekeeping: A Novel , Hörbuch, Digital, ungekürzt, 853min
    The daring, eagerly anticipated second novel by The National Book Award-nominated author of Fieldwork Mischa Berlinski's first novel, Fieldwork, was published in 2007 to rave reviews - Hilary Mantel called it "a quirky, often brilliant debut" and Stephen King said it was "a story that cooks like a mother" - and it was a finalist for the National Book Award. Now Berlinski returns with Peacekeeping, an equally enthralling story of love, politics, and death in the world's most intriguing country: Haiti. When Terry White, a former deputy sheriff and a failed politician, goes broke in the 2007-2008 financial crisis, he takes a job working for the UN, helping to train the Haitian police. He's sent to the remote town of Jérémie, where there are more coffin makers than restaurants, more donkeys than cars, and the dirt roads all slope down sooner or later to the postcard sea. Terry is swept up in the town's complex politics when he befriends an earnest, reforming, American-educated judge. Soon he convinces the judge to oppose the corrupt but charismatic Sénateur Maxim Bayard in an upcoming election. But when Terry falls in love with the judge's wife, the electoral drama threatens to become a disaster. Tense, atmospheric, tightly plotted, and surprisingly funny, Peacekeeping confirms Berlinski's gifts as a storyteller. Like Fieldwork, it explores a part of the world that is as fascinating as it is misunderstood - and takes us into the depths of the human soul, where the thirst for power and the need for love can overrun judgment and morality. ungekürzt. Language: English. Narrator: Ben Williams. Audio sample: https://samples.audible.de/bk/aren/002210/bk_aren_002210_sample.mp3. Digital audiobook in aax.
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    American classical pianists
    American classical pianists ab 54.99 € als Taschenbuch: Leonard Bernstein Raymond Smullyan David Tudor Vladimir Horowitz Stephen Kovacevich Ferde Grofé Claudio Arrau David Burge Herman Berlinski Bradley Joseph Per Enflo George Copeland Leo Ornstein Paul Jacobs George Szell. Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, English, International, Englische Taschenbücher,
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