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"The most trusted explainer of the most mind-boggling concepts pulls back the veil of mystery that has too long cloaked the most valuable building blocks of modern science. Sean Carroll, with his genius for making complex notions entertaining, presents in his uniquely lucid voice the fundamental ideas informing the modern physics of reality [...]

"This concise book introduces readers in the physical sciences (and beyond) to the exciting frontier topic of dark matter - a mysterious, non-luminous form of matter in the universe that is thought to account for about 27% of the mass-energy balance in the universe. Though dark matter has not yet been directly detected, its presence is implied by the fact that gravitational effects observed in galaxies cannot be explained unless they actually contain more matter than can be seen [...]

Lise Meitners Biografie zeigt die unglaubliche Geschichte einer Frau, die sich gegen alle sozialen und politischen Widerstände durchsetzte. Albert Einstein galt sie als „unsere Madame Curie“, den Nazis als unerwünschte Jüdin, der Boulevardpresse als „Mutter der Atombombe“ [...]

Joseph Liouville: Sur la determination des integrales dont la valeur est algebrique. - Joseph Ritt: Integration in Finite Terms -- Robert Risch: On the Integration of Elementary Functions that are Built Up Using Algebraic Operations -- Barry Trager: Integration of Algebraic Functions -- Maxwell Rosenlicht: Integration in Finite Terms -- Comments to these papers

""Cosmic Paradoxes" was an outcome of a Conference-Summer Course on "Astrophysical Cosmology: Frontier Questions" held at El Escorial, Madrid, on August 16-19, 1993. The Scientific Directors were John C Mather, Director of NASA's COBE (Cosmic Background Radiation Explorer), and Jose M Torroja, Secretary of the Spanish Academy of Sciences [...]