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"Meet JJ, an unusual character with a unique vantage position from which he can measure and monitor humanity's progress. Armed with a device that compels all around it to tell the truth, JJ offers a satirical evaluation of our attitudes to numeracy and logic, touching upon sever…
An audacious (and some would say quixotic) plan to send an unmanned craft to Centauri, the star system nearest to our Sun, is already underway at a number of NASA sites around the US. Gilster investigates the science, and just as importantly the spirit, of the researchers who ar…
"[T]ells the story of what the key researchers in interstellar exploration are doing, and how they move their projects forward, when most of the relevant science has not been experimentally verified, and most of the engineering is still decades, if not centuries, into the future…
This is a book of mathematical stories -- funny and puzzling mathematical stories. They tell of villains who try to steal secrets, heroes who encode their messages, and mathematicians who spend years on end searching for the best way to pile oranges. There are also stories about…
