Peter Pesic is Tutor and Musician-in-Residence at St. John”s College in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His books include
Abel”s Proof: An Essay on the Sources and Meaning of Mathematical Unsolvability and Seeing Double: Shared Identities in Physics, Philosophy, and Literature.
10 Ebooks por Peter Pesic
Karl Friedrich Gauss: General Investigations of Curved Surfaces
Gauss’s theory of surfaces is among the purely mathematical achievements inspired by ideas that arose in connection with surveys of the surface of the earth. Long regarded as a masterpiece in content …
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Hermann Weyl: Mind and Nature
Hermann Weyl (1885-1955) was one of the twentieth century’s most important mathematicians, as well as a seminal figure in the development of quantum physics and general relativity. He was also an elo …
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€64.99
Peter Pesic: Abels Beweis
Aus den Rezensionen zur englischen Auflage: ‘Die Leser von Pesics faszinierendem kleinen Buch werden zu dem unausweichlichen Urteil kommen: Niels [Henrik] Abel hat sich der Genialität im fünften Grad …
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Peter Pesic: Abel’s Proof
The intellectual and human story of a mathematical proof that transformed our ideas about mathematics.In 1824 a young Norwegian named Niels Henrik Abel proved conclusively that algebraic equations of …
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€77.05
Peter Pesic: Seeing Double
The unknown history of surveillance in relation to changing systems of representation and visual arts practice.The separateness and connection of individuals is perhaps the central question of human …
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€51.21
Peter Pesic: Music and the Making of Modern Science
A wide-ranging exploration of how music has influenced science through the ages, from fifteenth-century cosmology to twentieth-century string theory.In the natural science of ancient Greece, music fo …
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€115.16
Hermann Weyl: Levels of Infinity
This original anthology assembles ten accessible essays by a giant of modern mathematics. Hermann Weyl (1885–1955) made lasting contributions to number theory as well as theoretical physics, an …
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€30.63
Peter Pesic: Polyphonic Minds
An exploration of polyphony and the perspective it offers on our own polyphonic brains.Polyphony-the interweaving of simultaneous sounds-is a crucial aspect of music that has deep implications for ho …
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€114.42
Peter Pesic: Sounding Bodies
The unfolding influence of music and sound on the fundamental structure of the biomedical sciences, from ancient times to the present.Beginning in ancient Greece, Peter Pesic writes, music and sound …
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€3.85
