Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A physician-anthropologist with more than fifteen years in the field, Farmer writes from the front lines of the war against these modern plagues and shows why, even more than those of history, they target the poor. This "peculiarly modern inequality" that permeate...(展开全部)

Paul Farmer has battled AIDS in rural Haiti and deadly strains of drug-resistant tuberculosis in the slums of Peru. A physician-anthropologist with more than fifteen years in the field, Farmer writes from the front lines of the war against these modern plagues and shows why, even more than those of history, they target the poor. This 'peculiarly modern inequality' that permeate...(展开全部)

Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history as seen through the extraordinary impact--political, demographic, ecological, and psychological--of disease on cultures. From the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to ...(展开全部)

Upon its original publication, Plagues and Peoples was an immediate critical and popular success, offering a radically new interpretation of world history as seen through the extraordinary impact--political, demographic, ecological, and psychological--of disease on cultures. From the conquest of Mexico by smallpox as much as by the Spanish, to the bubonic plague in China, to ...(展开全部)

After an introduction to the geometry of polynomials and a discussion of refinements of the Fundamental Theorem of Algebra, the book turns to a consideration of various special polynomials. Chebyshev and Descartes systems are then introduced, and Muntz systems and rational systems are examined in detail. Subsequent chapters discuss denseness questions and the inequalities satis...(展开全部)

A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases. The emergence of strange new diseases is a frightening problem that seems to be getting worse. In this age of speedy travel, it threatens a worldwide pandemic. We hear news reports of Ebola, SARS, AIDS, and something called Hendra killing horses and people in Australia—but those report...(展开全部)

大卫·奎曼，美国著名科普作家，美国国家地理杂志记者。著有《完美先生达尔文》等书。

A masterpiece of science reporting that tracks the animal origins of emerging human diseases. The emergence of strange new diseases is a frightening problem that seems to be getting worse. In this age of speedy travel, it threatens a worldwide pandemic. We hear news reports of Ebola, SARS, AIDS, and something called Hendra killing horses and people in Australia—but those report...(展开全部)

大卫·奎曼，美国著名科普作家，美国国家地理杂志记者。著有《完美先生达尔文》等书。

G. H. Hardy (1877－1947 ) 享有世界声誉的数学大师，英国分析学派的创始人之一。数学贡献涉及解析数论、调和分析、函数论等方面。培养和指导了包括印度数学奇才拉马努金和我国数学家华罗庚在内的众多数学大家。 J. E. Littlewood（1885—1977）著名英国数学家。任剑桥大学教授多年，他也是英国分析学派的重要建立者，与G. H. Hardy长期合作取得了丰硕的成果。在数论和分析学等方面贡献很大。 G. Pólya（1887—1985）著名数学家和数学教育家。美国国家科学院院士，美国艺术和科学学院院士。长期担任斯坦福大学教授。其数学研究涉及复变函数、概率论、数论、数学分析、组合数学等众多领域。他撰写的《怎样解题》、《数学的发现》、《数学与猜想》等阐述解题方法的著作有世界性影响。