The Weil Conjectures: On Math and the Pursuit of the Unknown, Olsson Karen

Автор: Olsson, Gustaf
Название: Clean water using solar and wind
ISBN: 1780409435 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781780409436
Издательство: Turpin
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Solar photo-voltaic (PV) and wind offer to bring both clean energy and clean water to remote
regions and peri-urban areas in the world, outside the conventional electric grids. One out
of seven people has no electric power available that would bring light to the home, cook the
food, pump to access water and purify or re-use it. Off-grid systems are scalable and can be
designed to any size, from household to village and community levels. The renewable energy
cost development is remarkable and can make electric power affordable also for the poorest.

Renewables promise an end to the era where energy security is closely related to geopolitics.
The expenditure is up-front capital cost while "fuel" is free. With renewables, there is no
geopolitical pressure where one country has deposits of a fossil fuel while another does not.

This book aims to show how clean water and clean energy are reachable for all while
contributing to both a better climate and a healthier life.

Автор: Olsson Karen
Название: Weil Conjectures
ISBN: 1526607530 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781526607539
Издательство: Bloomsbury
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Автор: Olsson Karen
Название: All the Houses
ISBN: 1250097436 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781250097439
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
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A bittersweet, biting, sharply observed family drama from the author of "Waterloo"
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After her father has a heart attack and subsequent surgery, Helen Atherton returns to her hometown of Washington, D.C., to help take care of him and, perhaps more honestly, herself. She's been living in Los Angeles, trying to work in Hollywood, slowly spiraling into a depression fueled by hours spent watching C-SPAN-her obsession with politics a holdover from a childhood interrupted by her father's involvement in the Iran-Contra scandal. "I don't know whether to think of him as a coconspirator or a complicit bystander or just someone who was in the wrong place at the wrong time." Though the rest of the world has forgotten that scandal, the Atherton family never quite recovered. While living with her father in her childhood home, Helen tries to piece together the political moves that pulled her family apart.
"All the Houses" is, at its heart, a father-daughter story. With razor-sharp prose, an alluring objectivity, and a dry sense of humor, Karen Olsson writes about the shape-shifting of our family relationships when outside forces work their way in-how Washington turns people into unnatural versions of themselves, how problematic and overbearing sisters can be, and how familial nostalgia that sets in during early adulthood can prove counterproductive to actually becoming an adult.

Автор: Olsson Karen
Название: The Weil Conjectures: On Math, Writing, and the Unknown
ISBN: 0374287619 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780374287610
Издательство: Macmillan USA/Holtzbrink(MPS)
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"The Weil Conjectures is a charming meditation on geometry, sacrifice, and adolescent self-discovery, delivered in passionate, impressionistic bursts." --Jordan Ellenberg, New York Times-bestselling author of How Not to Be Wrong

An eloquent blend of memoir and biography exploring the Weil siblings, math, and creative inspiration

Karen Olsson's stirring and unusual third book, The Weil Conjectures, tells the story of the brilliant Weil siblings--Simone, a philosopher, mystic, and social activist, and Andr , an influential mathematician--while also recalling the years Olsson spent studying math. As she delves into the lives of these two singular French thinkers, she grapples with their intellectual obsessions and rekindles one of her own. For Olsson, as a math major in college and a writer now, it's the odd detours that lead to discovery, to moments of insight. Thus The Weil Conjectures--an elegant blend of biography and memoir and a meditation on the creative life.

Personal, revealing, and approachable, The Weil Conjectures eloquently explores math as it relates to intellectual history, and shows how sometimes the most inexplicable pursuits turn out to be the most rewarding.

Автор: Olsson, Nina
Название: Walking amongst giants
ISBN: 1786232448 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781786232441
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Описание: A travelogue about the Annapurna Region of Nepal

Автор: Olsson John
Название: More Wordcrime: Solving Crime with Linguistics
ISBN: 1350029645 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781350029644
Издательство: Bloomsbury Academic
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Murders, cover-ups, infidelities, financial and political skulduggery: Dr John Olsson has seen it all in his decades as one of the world's top forensic linguists specialising in authorship.

Working on cases that range from accusations of genocide to domestic disputes gone bad to allegations of university plagiarism, Olsson turns the same tools to the task - the power, depth and precision of forensic linguistics. Grammatical curiosities, lexical quirks, typographic stylings and patterns of use can all give away even the most hard-bitten and careful of criminals. And Olsson doesn't stop there. From the giveaway compound nouns of heavy-handed police statements to the startling similarities displayed in what should be individual office accounts, officials in high places are given a run for their money too. Wordcrime is easy to commit - and hard to escape. More Wordcrime features a series of gripping cases involving murder, sexual assault, hate mail, suspicious death and criminal damage. In approachable and clear prose, Dr Olsson details how forensic linguistics helps the law beat criminals, and how even those in power can be held to account.

This is fascinating reading for anyone interested in true crime, in modern, cutting-edge criminology and also where the study of language meets the law.