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The Second Edition
We are pleased to announce the second edition of A Student’s Guide to Python for Physical Modeling!
The book will be available in early August, in time for fall classes.
We have updated the book to reflect changes in the language, and we have added new material on methods that have become more prominent in scientific programming in recent years — such as data science and version control. The sec
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A thrilling bulletin from the front lines by a leading researcher In a mere 160 pages, Brahic brilliantly surveys the current state of research on many dreaded neurodegenerative diseases, explaining the discoveries, one after another, that each was a ...more |
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An extraordinary bulletin from the frontier of medicine. Probably all of us have heard confusing news about the science of aging, metabolic disease, and degenerative disease. Now at last Uri Alon puts the pieces together with simple mathematical model ...more |
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“At the dawn of the twentieth century, it was already clear that, chemically speaking, you and I are not much different from cans of soup. And yet we can do many complex and even fun things we do not usually see cans of soup doing.”
― Biological Physics: Energy, Information, Life
― Biological Physics: Energy, Information, Life
“As an anonymous wit is supposed to have put it: "Hydrogen is a light, odorless gas which, given enough time, changes into people.”
― Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History
― Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History
“In Leipzig [in the 14th century], the university found it necessary to promulgate a rule against throwing stones at the professors. As late as 1495, a German statute explicitly forbade anyone associated with the university from drenching freshmen with urine.”
― Euclid's Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace
― Euclid's Window: The Story of Geometry from Parallel Lines to Hyperspace
“You cannot say, "I will look it up." Your birthday and social security number are things you look up; trigonometric functions and identities are what you know all the time.”
― Fundamentals of Physics: Mechanics, Relativity, and Thermodynamics
― Fundamentals of Physics: Mechanics, Relativity, and Thermodynamics
“Our terminal decline into old age and death stems from the fine print of the contract that we signed with our mitochondria two billion years ago.”
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