The Completely Useless Dictionary of Higher Education, Lehmann Ilana S.

Автор: Lehmann, Friederike Marie
Название: Offshore carbon dioxide capture and storage
ISBN: 3631642687 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783631642689
Издательство: Peter Lang
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Описание: This book deals with open legal questions regarding offshore CCS projects. It analyses international and regional maritime and climate protection law as well as relevant European legislation. It concludes that the permission and encouragement of offshore CCS projects is highly problematic from an international environmental law perspective.

Автор: Posamentier Alfred S., Lehmann Ignmar
Название: Magnificent Mistakes in Mathematics
ISBN: 1616147474 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781616147471
Издательство: Random House (USA)
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Описание: Two veteran math educators demonstrate how some "magnificent mistakes" had profound consequences for our understanding of mathematics' key concepts.
In the nineteenth century, English mathematician William Shanks spent fifteen years calculating the value of pi, setting a record for the number of decimal places. Later, his calculation was reproduced using large wooden numerals to decorate the cupola of a hall in the Palais de la Decouverte in Paris. However, in 1946, with the aid of a mechanical desk calculator that ran for seventy hours, it was discovered that there was a mistake in the 528th decimal place. Today, supercomputers have determined the value of pi to trillions of decimal places.
This is just one of the amusing and intriguing stories about mistakes in mathematics in this layperson's guide to mathematical principles. In another example, the authors show that when we "prove" that every triangle is isosceles, we are violating a concept not even known to Euclid - that of "betweenness." And if we disregard the time-honored Pythagorean theorem, this is a misuse of the concept of infinity. Even using correct procedures can sometimes lead to absurd - but enlightening - results.
Requiring no more than high-school-level math competency, this playful excursion through the nuances of math will give you a better grasp of this fundamental, all-important science.

Автор: Stephanie Lehmann
Название: The art of undressing
ISBN: 0340899565 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780340899564
Издательство: Hodder
Цена: 7070.00 T
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Описание: A wonderfully indulgent and funny chick-lit novel which follows Ginger, who is hopeless with men, and her ex-exotic dancer mother Coco, who now makes her living selling sex toys