The development of physical theory is one of our greatest intellectual achievements. Its products--the currently prevailing theories of physics, astronomy, and cosmology--have ...

This book explains the structure of the 9 regular solids, including the tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron, plus many semiregular solids. It ...

The new edition of this widely praised work presents an entirely revised text and new illustrative material covering the latest developments in the field of chemistry.

Complexity studies, though still in their infancy, are controversial. By viewing different systems--whether those in biological, physical, or even social sciences--as a series ...

In fifty-four colour plates, Symmetry in Chaos illustrates the many varied and beautiful pictures that may be produced when the seemingly contradictory ideas of symmetry and ...

Rifle closed the book and lay it in his coat. He unbuttoned his shirt and slipped it over his shoulders. He walked to the front of the wagon and sat on the axle to remove his ...

Foremost book available on polytopes, incorporating ancient Greek and most modern work. Discusses polygons, polyhedrons, and multi-dimensional polytopes. Definitions of symbols ...

Metastable Liquids provides a comprehensive treatment of the properties of liquids under conditions where the stable state is a vapor, a solid, or a liquid mixture of different ...

This book comprehensively documents the many and varied ways that polyhedra have come to the fore throughout the development of mathematics.

Jammer then devotes a chapter to the distinction between inertial and gravitational mass and to the various versions of the so-called equivalance principle with which Newton ...