Author: Bernhelm Booß-Bavnbek
Publisher: Birkhäuser
ISBN: 3034880936
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Mathematics has for centuries been stimulated, financed and credited by military purposes. Some mathematical thoughts and mathematical technology have also been vital in war. During World War II mathematical work by the Anti-Hitler coalition was part of an aspiration to serve humanity and not help destroy it. At present, it is not an easy task to view the bellicose potentials of mathematics in a proper perspective. The book presents historical evidence and recent changes in the interaction between mathematics and the military. It discusses the new mathematically enhanced development of military technology which seems to have changed the very character of modern warfare.
Mathematics and War
Author: Bernhelm Booß-Bavnbek
Publisher: Birkhäuser
ISBN: 3034880936
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Mathematics has for centuries been stimulated, financed and credited by military purposes. Some mathematical thoughts and mathematical technology have also been vital in war. During World War II mathematical work by the Anti-Hitler coalition was part of an aspiration to serve humanity and not help destroy it. At present, it is not an easy task to view the bellicose potentials of mathematics in a proper perspective. The book presents historical evidence and recent changes in the interaction between mathematics and the military. It discusses the new mathematically enhanced development of military technology which seems to have changed the very character of modern warfare.
Publisher: Birkhäuser
ISBN: 3034880936
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 418
Book Description
Mathematics has for centuries been stimulated, financed and credited by military purposes. Some mathematical thoughts and mathematical technology have also been vital in war. During World War II mathematical work by the Anti-Hitler coalition was part of an aspiration to serve humanity and not help destroy it. At present, it is not an easy task to view the bellicose potentials of mathematics in a proper perspective. The book presents historical evidence and recent changes in the interaction between mathematics and the military. It discusses the new mathematically enhanced development of military technology which seems to have changed the very character of modern warfare.
Speak Up
Author: Douglas M. Fraleigh
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312621884
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 787
Book Description
When was the last time you actually looked forward to reading a textbook? With "Speak Up", thousands of students have been doing just that -- getting more out of their speech courses and having fun while doing it. It's a different kind of textbook, combining great writing and examples with more than 500 hand-drawn illustrations that bring speechmaking to life. It's all designed to help you ace the course and prepare you to speak effectively on campus, on the job, and beyond. -- From publisher's description.
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0312621884
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 787
Book Description
When was the last time you actually looked forward to reading a textbook? With "Speak Up", thousands of students have been doing just that -- getting more out of their speech courses and having fun while doing it. It's a different kind of textbook, combining great writing and examples with more than 500 hand-drawn illustrations that bring speechmaking to life. It's all designed to help you ace the course and prepare you to speak effectively on campus, on the job, and beyond. -- From publisher's description.
Digital Cash
Author: Finn Brunton
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691209162
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The fascinating untold story of digital cash and its creators—from experiments in the 1970s to the mania over Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies Bitcoin may appear to be a revolutionary form of digital cash without precedent or prehistory. In fact, it is only the best-known recent experiment in a long line of similar efforts going back to the 1970s. But the story behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and its blockchain technology has largely been untold—until now. In Digital Cash, Finn Brunton reveals how technological utopians and political radicals created experimental money to bring about their visions of the future: to protect privacy, bring down governments, prepare for apocalypse, or launch a civilization of innovation and abundance that would make its creators immortal. Filled with marvelous characters, stories, and ideas, Digital Cash is an engaging and accessible account of the strange origins and remarkable technologies behind today's cryptocurrency explosion.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691209162
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
The fascinating untold story of digital cash and its creators—from experiments in the 1970s to the mania over Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies Bitcoin may appear to be a revolutionary form of digital cash without precedent or prehistory. In fact, it is only the best-known recent experiment in a long line of similar efforts going back to the 1970s. But the story behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin and its blockchain technology has largely been untold—until now. In Digital Cash, Finn Brunton reveals how technological utopians and political radicals created experimental money to bring about their visions of the future: to protect privacy, bring down governments, prepare for apocalypse, or launch a civilization of innovation and abundance that would make its creators immortal. Filled with marvelous characters, stories, and ideas, Digital Cash is an engaging and accessible account of the strange origins and remarkable technologies behind today's cryptocurrency explosion.
Bibliography of the Eskimo Language
Author: James Constantine Pilling
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
List of works in or on the Eskimo dialects of Greenland, North America and Asia (including Aleut) with a chronological index of authors.
Publisher:
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 534
Book Description
List of works in or on the Eskimo dialects of Greenland, North America and Asia (including Aleut) with a chronological index of authors.
Smithsonian Institution, Bureau of Ethnology
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
Perforated Stones from California
Author: Henry Wetherbee Henshaw
Publisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : California
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Perforated Stones from California
Author: Henry W. Henshaw
Publisher:
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
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Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Pamphlets
Author:
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Indians of North America
Languages : en
Pages : 646
Book Description
Bulletin
Author: Smithsonian Institution. Bureau of American Ethnology
Publisher:
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Ethnology
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Science and Social Inequality
Author: Sandra Harding
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252047095
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
In Science and Social Inequality, Sandra Harding makes the provocative argument that the philosophy and practices of today's Western science, contrary to its Enlightenment mission, work to insure that more science will only worsen existing gaps between the best and worst off around the world. She defends this claim by exposing the ways that hierarchical social formations in modern Western sciences encode antidemocratic principles and practices, particularly in terms of their services to militarism, the impoverishment and alienation of labor, Western expansion, and environmental destruction. The essays in this collection--drawing on feminist, multicultural, and postcolonial studies--propose ways to reconceptualize the sciences in the global social order. At issue here are not only social justice and environmental issues but also the accuracy and comprehensiveness of our understandings of natural and social worlds. The inadvertent complicity of the sciences with antidemocratic projects obscures natural and social realities and thus blocks the growth of scientific knowledge. Scientists, policy makers, social justice movements and the consumers of scientific products (that is, the rest of us) can work together and separately to improve this situation.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
ISBN: 0252047095
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
In Science and Social Inequality, Sandra Harding makes the provocative argument that the philosophy and practices of today's Western science, contrary to its Enlightenment mission, work to insure that more science will only worsen existing gaps between the best and worst off around the world. She defends this claim by exposing the ways that hierarchical social formations in modern Western sciences encode antidemocratic principles and practices, particularly in terms of their services to militarism, the impoverishment and alienation of labor, Western expansion, and environmental destruction. The essays in this collection--drawing on feminist, multicultural, and postcolonial studies--propose ways to reconceptualize the sciences in the global social order. At issue here are not only social justice and environmental issues but also the accuracy and comprehensiveness of our understandings of natural and social worlds. The inadvertent complicity of the sciences with antidemocratic projects obscures natural and social realities and thus blocks the growth of scientific knowledge. Scientists, policy makers, social justice movements and the consumers of scientific products (that is, the rest of us) can work together and separately to improve this situation.