Este libro presenta una historia singular que vincula a algunos de los protagonistas y a algunas de las ideas más trascendentes de la cultura occidental del siglo XX: Pablo Picasso, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Simone Weil, el estructuralismo y la...
After analyzing thousands of tax returns from around the country, Aczel has finally broken the secret statistical code the I.R.S. uses. From his research, Aczel can predict with a high degree of accuracy which of the more than 100 million returns filed...
Simple, elegant, and utterly impossible to prove, Fermat's last theorem captured the imaginations of mathematicians for more than three centuries. For some, it became a wonderful passion. For others it was an obsession that led to deceit, intrigue,...
The lines between 'science' and 'science fiction' have become increasingly blurred. Now, quantum mechanics promises that some of humanity's wildest dreams may be realized. Serious scientists, working from Einstein's theories, have...
For thousands of years, it was the visionaries and writers who argued that we cannot be alone-that there is intellegent life in the universe. Now, with the discoveries of the Hubble Telescope, data emerging from Mars, and knowledge about life at the extre...