Brian Clegg
Author
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
x, 288 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
Presents an accessible, in-depth look at the history of numbers and their applications in life and science, from math's surreal presence in the virtual world to the debates about the role of math in science.
"Have you ever wondered what humans did before numbers existed? How they organized their lives, traded goods, or kept track of their treasures? What would your life be like without them? Numbers began as simple representations of everyday things,...
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
320 pages : color illustrations ; 17 cm
Language
English
Description
"An easy-to-understand guide to the complex subject of quantum physics. Quantum physics is how scientists describe the world of the very small. For other people, however, the rules of quantum physics seem to violate all logic: How can a particle be in more than one place at the same time? How can it tunnel through an impenetrable barrier? How can a cat in a box be both alive and dead? This book explains the complexities of quantum physics in bite-sized...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
xv, 188 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"The breakthroughs that have had the most transformative practical impacts, from thermodynamics to the Internet. Physics informs our understanding of how the world works - but more than that, key breakthroughs in physics have transformed everyday life. We journey back to ten separate days in history to understand how particular breakthroughs were achieved, meet the individuals responsible and see how each breakthrough has influenced our lives. It...
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xiii, 240 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Popular science master Brian Clegg's new book is an entertaining tour through the science of what makes you you. From the atomic level, through life and energy to genetics and personality, it explores how the billions of particles which make up you-- your DNA, your skin, your memories-- have come to be. It starts with the present-day reader and follows a number of trails to discover their origins: how the atoms in your body were created and how they...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
185 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In Time Travel: Ten Short Lessons, popular-science master Brian Clegg gives a grand tour of the essential lessons in this game-changing area of physics, from the imagination of novelists to current research. Einstein's special theory of relativity told us that time travel to the future was possible, and later his general theory of relativity showed us that loops in spacetime could exist, meaning that we might be able to bend time backward, too. But...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
162 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
Since the 1970s, astronomers have been aware that galaxies have far too little matter in them to account for the way they spin around: they should fly apart like clay off a potter's wheel, but something concealed holds them together. This 'something' is dark matter-- invisible material in five times the quantity of the familiar stuff of stars and planets. By the 1990s we also knew that the expansion of the universe was accelerating. Something, named...
Author
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
151 pages : colour illustrations ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
How It All Works is a unique and unprecedented demonstration of our universe and how it works. Starting in the home, and moving through ever more complex scenes of street, city and landscape, all the way to the solar system and the whole universe, Adam Dant's exquisite illustrations reveal where scientific laws apply and where the phenomena they create are to be found. A rigorous reference section includes all these in alphabetical order for ease...
12) Physics
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
160 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Author
Pub. Date
2003.
Physical Desc
255 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
Infinity is a concept that fascinates everyone from a seven-year-old child to a maths professor. So remarkable and strange is it that contemplating it has driven at least two great mathematicians over the edge into insanity. Where did the concept of infinity come from? Who were the people who originally defined and later refined this paradoxical quantity? Why is infinity, a concept we can never experience or truly grasp, at the heart of science? How...
Author
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
x, 307 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"An exciting new book about real-life technology derived from science fiction and its impact on the world"--
"Science fiction is a vital part of popular culture, influencing the way we all look at the world. TV shows like Star Trek and movies from Forbidden Planet to Inception have influenced scientists to enter the profession and have shaped our futures. Science fiction doesn't set out to predict what will happen - it's far more about how human...
Author
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
256 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"The math we are taught in school is precise and only deals with simple situations. Reality is far more complex. Trying to understand a system with multiple interacting components-- the weather, for example, or the human body, or the stock market-- means dealing with two factors: chaos and complexity. If we don't understand these two essential subjects, we can't understand the real world. In Everyday Chaos, Brian Clegg explains chaos and complexity...
17) Know-it-all energy: the 50 most elemental concepts in energy, each explained in under a minute >
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
160 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"As a phenomenon that resides everywhere and in everything, energy is best understood by example. Exploring energy shows how it cannot be created or destroyed, only transformed--and how plankton and other ancient ocean-dwelling organisms can be used to power your car. Reducing the subject to its essential areas, Know-It-All Energy charts fascinating and fundamental topics, from the nuclear fusion reactor at the heart of the sun and civilization's...
