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几本英文科普书
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以下是几本个人认为值得引进的英文科普书。
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Sync: How Order Emerges From Chaos In the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life
Steven Strogatz is the Schurman Professor of applied mathematics at Cornell University. A renowned teacher and one of the world's most highly cited mathematicians, he has been a frequent guest on National Public Radio's Radiolab. Among his honors are MIT's highest teaching prize, membership in the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a lifetime achievement award for communication of math to the general public, awarded by the four major American mathematical societies. He also wrote a popular New York Times online column, "The Elements of Math," which formed the basis for his new book, The Joy of x. He lives in Ithaca, New York with his wife and two daughters.
In Pursuit of the Traveling Salesman: Mathematics at the Limits of Computation
William Cook is the Chandler Family Professor at Georgia Tech and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Together with David Applegate, Robert Bixby, and Vasek Chvatal, Cook created the Concorde computer code for the traveling salesman problem.
An Introduction to Information Theory: Symbols, Signals and Noise
Nine Algorithms That Changed the Future: The Ingenious Ideas That Drive Today's Computers
John MacCormick is a computer science teacher and researcher. He grew up in New Zealand, studied mathematics and computer science in England, and now lives in Pennsylvania, USA. MacCormick has a PhD in computer vision from the University of Oxford, has worked in the research labs of Hewlett-Packard and Microsoft, and is currently a professor of computer science at Dickinson College. His work spans several sub-fields of computer science, including computer vision, large-scale distributed systems, computer science education, and the public understanding of computer science.
In Pursuit of the Unknown: 17 Equations That Changed the World
Ian Stewart is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics and active researcher at the University of Warwick. He is also a regular research visitor at the University of Houston, the Institute of Mathematics and Its Applications in Minneapolis, and the Santa Fe institute. His writing has appeared in New Scientist, Discover, Scientific American, and many newspapers in the U.K. and U.S. He lives in Coventry, England.
Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
The Information: A History, A Theory, A Flood
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation
Managing Martians
What is a p-value anyway? 34 Stories to Help You Actually Understand Statistics
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Signals: The Telephone and Beyond
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