For over 700 years the international language of science was Arabic. In Pathfinders , Jim al-Khalili celebrates the forgotten pioneers who helped shape our understanding of the world.

Visualization technology is becoming increasingly important for medical and biomedical data processing and analysis. The interaction between visualization and medicine is one of the fastest expanding fields, both scientifically and commercially. This book discusses some of the latest visualization techniques and systems for effective analysis of...

This book explores the remarkable connections between two domains that, a priori, seem unrelated: Random matrices (together with associated random processes) and integrable systems. The relations between random matrix models and the theory of classical integrable systems have long been studied. These appear mainly in the deformation theory, when...

Die Verfügbarkeit von Nanopartikeln mit definierter Struktur und gewünschten Eigenschaften ist eine der wichtigsten Grundlagen der weiteren Entwicklung der Nanotechnologie. Das vorliegende, für einen breiten Leserkreis konzipierte Buch beschreibt zunächst, wovon der Aufbau von Nanopartikeln abhängt (Clusterbildung, Phasenübergänge). Anschließend...

The authors present an updated view of neurodynamical approaches to attentional mechanisms and related percetual and consicousness questions with a take on neuropsychiatric illnesses which can shed light on these problems, specifically ADHD and schizophrenia. Furthermore, they provide novel evidence pointing to genetic and neurochemical factors ...

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elect...

Genesis ? In The Beginning deals with the origin and diversity of Life and early biological evolution and discusses the question of where (hot or cold sources) and when the beginning of Life took place. Among the sections are chapters dealing with prebiotic chemical processes and considering self-replication of polymers in mineral habitats. One ...

This Volume collects a series of key-note lectures delivered at the fourth ?Oceans from Space? Symposium, held in Venice, Italy, in 2010. The revisited postscript in the title identifies it as the ideal follow-up of the legendary Oceanography from Space, edited by J.F.R. Gower and published in 1980, following the very first edition of ?Oceans fr...

This book looks at the relationship between linguistic universals and language change. Reflecting...