Cultura matematica, formazione e media -- La preparazione matematica delle matricole nelle università europee: risultati di un test -- Metodi statistici per la misurazione delle competenze: analisi della preparazione matematica delle matricole -- Matematica e media: strumenti, aspettative, risultati -- I problemi della matematica nel Regno Unito -- Metamorph da Escher all’architettura virtua…
Prologue: A journey to Rome -- The musician's son -- A gifted young Tuscan -- To Rome and the Jesuits -- A Surveyor of Inferno -- The spheres from the tower -- From Pisa to Padua -- Signs in the sky -- De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium -- Lecturer and designer -- A professor's commitments -- Modern physics is born -- A new star in an unchanging sky?- Drawing close to a court -- The balls fall…
Parte 1 -- Un cifrario del XVIII secolo -- La prima macchina cifrante al mondo -- Damm, Hagelin e Gyldén -- Intercettazione di segnali radio e analisi crittografica prima del 1939 -- Guerra -- Entra in scena Arne Beurling -- La flotta russa del Baltico -- Segnali misteriosi -- Telescriventi -- L’analisi di Beurling -- La G-Schreiber e gli “app” -- Crittoanalisi sistematica -- Esce di sce…
The Philosopher Scientist -- The Concept of Nature -- Physical Understanding -- The Scientist Philosopher -- The Block Universe -- Causation and Determinism -- Conclusion.How do major scientific discoveries reshape their originators’, and our own, sense of reality and concept of the physical world? The Scientist as Philosopher explores the interaction between physics and philosophy. Clearly w…
The Cosmonaut Training Centre: birth and growth -- Simulators -- Other national and international facilities -- Survival training -- The Cosmonaut Group of the RGNII TsPK -- The Cosmonaut group of RKK Energiya -- Other Soviet and Russian cosmonaut selections -- Cosmonauts selected to fly the Buran Shuttle -- International training -- Joint programmes -- Zvyozdnyy Gorodok — the town.With the a…
GMO issues today- an introduction -- Public perception of plant biotechnology -- What is biotechnology? -- History and current uses of plant biotechnology -- Environmental concerns associated with GMOs -- Herbicide tolerance -- Virus resistance -- Insect resistance -- Second generation products (Quality-oils, proteins, starch etc.) -- Third generation products (biofactories etc.) -- GMO - Intel…
Prologue -- Karl von Terzaghi’s Childhood, Youth and his Road to Practice and Theory -- Prelude to the Scandal -- Intermezzo -- The Scandal -- The Further Development -- Epilogue.The Engineer and the Scandal gives an in-depth study into an important part of the development of the Theory of Porous Media as well as the amazing story of the glittering life of Professor Karl von Terzaghi. It prov…
to Wolfgang Pauli’s Dialogue with C.G. Jung -- Wolfgang Pauli, the Copenhagen School and Philosophy -- The Copenhagen School and Psychology -- Pauli and Jung -- Incarnation and Quantum Physics -- Summary and Concluding Remarks."The Innermost Kernel" recounts the physicist and Nobel Laureate Wolfgang Pauli and his interest in Jungian psychology, philosophy and western world-view. It is also an…
Peering at Mars -- A close look -- The Vikings -- What is life? -- A multiplicity of missions -- The water dilemma -- Spirit -- Opportunity -- Future prospects."Why explore Mars? The simple answer is, we’re going to Mars to search for life. We’re following the water because on Earth where you find liquid water, organic material, and energy, you find life." u find life" Ed Weiler, NASA's Ass…
Elements of Classical Information Theory -- Elements of Quantum Information Theory -- Classical, Quantum and Information-Driven Interactions -- The “Active” Role of Information in Biological Systems -- The ‘Passive’ Role of Information in Physics -- Information and the Brain.Infromation and Its Role in Nature presents an in-depth interdisciplinary discussion of the concept of informatio…