'Light' begins at Stonehenge, where crowds cheer a solstice sunrise. After sampling myths explaining First Light, the story moves on to early philosophers' queries, then through the centuries, from Buddhist temples to Biblical scripture, when light was the soul of the divine. Ba…
Traces the study of light across three millennia, drawing on myriad disciplines to explore the contributions of architectural, artistic, and scientific luminaries while examining the role of light in present-day innovations and pursuits.
"Delving into mythology, religion, philosophy, painting, and science, Light captures the wonder and awe of humanity's study of light across three millennia of discovery."--Dust jacket.
"Delving into mythology, religion, philosophy, painting, and science, 'Light' captures the wonder and awe of humanity's study of light across three millennia of discovery"--Front jacket flap
"Delving into mythology, religion, philosophy, painting, and science, Light captures the wonder and awe of humanity's study of light across three millennia of discovery"--Jacket.
The aim of this volume is to make available to a large audience recent material in nonlinear functional analysis that has not been covered in book format before. Here, several topics of current and growing interest are systematically presented, such as fixed point theory, best a…
Borel's methods of summability
by Watson, Bruce, Shawyer, Bruce
fromOxford mathematical monographs