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Seventeen Equations that Changed the World shows how equations open new vistas of experience, from electronics and global communications to radar, lasers, space crafts and the atom bomb. 

The author uses cooking and baking as an analogy for explaining mathematical problems and ideas. 

The author describes how Mathematics has been the driving force in astronomy and cosmology since the ancient Babylonians, by discussing topics such as gravity, space-...

The Wellcome Library is one of the most extraordinary libraries in the world. Devoted to the history and understanding of medicine, this massive and eclectic hoard was collected in the early 20th century by the...

Every year, readers send in thousands of questions to New Scientist, the world's best-selling science weekly, in the hope that the answers to them will be given in the 'Last Word' column - regularly voted the most...

This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes the latest publications from UK educational publishers.

The Great Mathematical Problems shows why problems like Fermat's Last Theorem and the Riemann Hypothesis arose and why they are important for mathematics and science as a whole.

This item is one of over 25,000 physical resources available from the Resources Collection. The Archive Collection covers over 50 years of curriculum development in the STEM subjects. The Contemporary Collection includes the latest publications from UK educational publishers.

100 wonderful, intriguing and entertaining scientific experiments which show scientific principles first hand - this is science at its most popular.

How to Make a Tornado is about the margins of science - not the research down tried-and-tested routes, but some of its zanier and more brilliant by-ways.

Investigating everything from what it's like to die, to...