This book treats the Atiyah-Singer index theorem using the heat equation, which gives a local formula for the index of any elliptic complex. Heat equation methods are also used to discuss Lefschetz fixed point formulas, the Gauss-Bonnet theorem for a manifold with smooth boundary, and the geometrical theorem for a manifold with smooth boundary. The author uses invariance theory...(展开全部)

Fritzsch offers readers the opportunity to listen in on a meeting of Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, and a present-day physicist. While he introduces the theory of relativity, Fritzsch teaches its sources, its workings, and the ways it has revolutionized our view of the physical world. "An Equation That Changed the World" dramatizes the importance of relativity, for the human ra...(展开全部)

By any measure, the Pythagorean theorem is the most famous statement in all of mathematics. In this book, Eli Maor reveals the full story of this ubiquitous geometric theorem. Maor shows that the theorem, although attributed to Pythagoras, was known to the Babylonians more than a thousand years earlier. Pythagoras may have been the first to prove it, but his proof - if indeed h...(展开全部)

Bruno Cadogan, a doctoral student in Spanish Literature at New York University, is making little progress on his dissertation, a study of Jorge Luis Borges's essays on the tango. As he wanders through the Village, a chance encounter with a specialist in Latin American culture launches him in a new direction: she suggests that he go to Buenos Aires in pursuit of the elusive tang...(展开全部)

【印】阿马蒂亚•森（Amartya Sen）， 【美】埃里克•马斯金（Eric Maskin）

Are we on the verge of solving the riddle of creation using Einstein's "greatest blunder"? In a work that is at once lucid, exhilarating and profound, renowned mathematician Dr. Amir Aczel, critically acclaimed author of Fermat's Last Theorem , takes us into the heart of science's greatest mystery. In January 1998, astronomers found evidence that the cosmos is expanding at an...(展开全部)

This 40th anniversary edition of Albert Lord's classic work includes a CD containing the original audio recording of all the passages of heroic songs quoted in the book; a video publication of the kinescopic filming of the most valued of the singers; and selected photographs taken during Milman Parry's collecting trips in the Balkans. Parry began recording and studying a live t...(展开全部)

作者简介 克里斯·希林（Chris Shilling） 英国肯特大学社会学教授，代表作为《身体与社会理论》（首版1993，二版2003，三版2012），另著有《社会学何为》（2007），《文化、技术与社会中的身体》（2005），《改变中的身体》（2008）等。 译者简介 李康 先后毕业于复旦大学和北京大学，现任北京大学社会学系教授，教学卓越奖获得者。曾于哈佛大学和牛津大学分别访学一年。在西方社会学理论、文化社会学、历史社会学方面完成译著近30部，1400余万字。

作者简介 克里斯·希林（Chris Shilling） 英国肯特大学社会学教授，代表作为《身体与社会理论》（首版1993，二版2003，三版2012），另著有《社会学何为》（2007），《文化、技术与社会中的身体》（2005），《改变中的身体》（2008）等。 译者简介 李康 先后毕业于复旦大学和北京大学，现任北京大学社会学系教授，教学卓越奖获得者。曾于哈佛大学和牛津大学分别访学一年。在西方社会学理论、文化社会学、历史社会学方面完成译著近30部，1400余万字。