Математика. Естественные науки.

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The Rocky Mountain National Park reader / edited by James H. Pickering. - Salt Lake City : The University of Utah Press, 2015. - vii, 283 с. : ил., карты. - (The National Park readers). - Библиогр.: с. 279. - Указ.: с. 284

Экземпляры: всего:1 - корпус 2 ауд. 207.

Аннотация: Writer Wallace Stegner once wrote that 'No place is a place until things that have happened in it are remembered.' This collection celebrates one of America's most loved places, Rocky Mountain National Park, which marked its 100th birthday in 2015. Engagement with place and the park's history loom large in the thirty-three selections that make up this anthology which reach back to Arapaho and pioneer times before the park was established and span its entire first century. The voices that speak to us are distinctive: some recall moments of personal triumph, others tell of mountain tragedies. Some are quiet or reflective, still others more polemic. All capture and share a part of the national treasure that is Rocky Mountain National Park. This original collection is a rich literary and historical compendium that provides an indispensable introduction to the nation's twelfth national park.

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Wilczek, Frank.

A beautiful question : finding nature's deep design / Frank Wilczek. - New York : Penguin Press, 2015. - 43 с. : 16 вкл. л., цв.ил., ил. - Библиогр.: с. 407. - Указ.: с. 410

Экземпляры: всего:1 - корпус 2 ауд. 207.

Аннотация: Does the universe embody beautiful ideas? Artists as well as scientists throughout human history have pondered this "beautiful question." With Nobel laureate Frank Wilczek as your guide, embark on a voyage of related discoveries, from Plato and Pythagoras up to the present. Wilczek's groundbreaking work in quantum physics was inspired by his intuition to look for a deeper order of beauty in nature. In fact, every major advance in his career came from this intuition: to assume that the universe embodies beautiful forms, forms whose hallmarks are symmetry-harmony, balance, proportion and economy. There are other meanings of "beauty," but this is the deep logic of the universe-and it is no accident that it is also at the heart of what we find aesthetically pleasing and inspiring. As he reveals here, this has been the heart of scientific pursuit from Pythagoras, the ancient Greek who was the first to argue that "all things are number," to Galileo, Newton, Maxwell, Einstein, and into the deep waters of twentieth-century physics. Gorgeously illustrated, A Beautiful Question is a mind-shifting book that braids the age-old quest for beauty and the age-old quest for truth into a thrilling synthesis. Yes: the world is a work of art, and its deepest truths are ones we already feel, as if they were somehow written in our souls. From publisher description.