Following on from the success of his two previous books, Remarkable Mathematicians and Remarkable Physicists, Ioan James now profiles 38 remarkable biologists from the last 400 years. The emphasis is on their varied life-stories, not on the details of their achievements, but when read in sequence their biographies, which are organised chronologically, convey in human terms some...(展开全部)

Following on from the success of his two previous books, Remarkable Mathematicians and Remarkable Physicists, Ioan James now profiles 38 remarkable biologists from the last 400 years. The emphasis is on their varied life-stories, not on the details of their achievements, but when read in sequence their biographies, which are organised chronologically, convey in human terms some...(展开全部)

The 250 years from the second half of the 17th century saw the birth of modern physics and its growth into one of the most successful of the sciences. The reader will find here the lives of 55 of the most remarkable physicists from that era described in brief biographies. All the characters profiled have made important contributions to physics, either through their ideas, throu...(展开全部)

The 250 years from the second half of the 17th century saw the birth of modern physics and its growth into one of the most successful of the sciences. The reader will find here the lives of 55 of the most remarkable physicists from that era described in brief biographies. All the characters profiled have made important contributions to physics, either through their ideas, throu...(展开全部)

约安·詹姆斯（Ioan James，1928— ），英国牛津大学原几何学萨维尔讲席教授，牛津大学圣约翰学院与新学院荣誉研究员。詹姆斯在数学研究上成就显赫，曾任伦敦数学学会主席，获该学会颁发的贝里克奖和怀特海奖。他于1968年当选为英国皇家学会会员，是世界多所大学的客座教授。他已出版5本数学专著，新近著作则偏重科学史。

Ioan James introduces and profiles sixty mathematicians from the era when mathematics was freed from its classical origins to develop into its modern form. The subjects, all born between 1700 and 1910, come from a wide range of countries, and all made important contributions to mathematics, through their ideas, their teaching, and their influence. James emphasizes their varied ...(展开全部)

保罗•奥菲特（Paul A.Offit），医学博士，是专门研究传染病的儿科医生，是疫苗、免疫学和病毒学专家，还是一种轮状病毒疫苗的共同发明人之一。 他是莫里斯•R•希勒曼疫苗学教授、宾夕法尼亚大学佩雷尔曼医学院儿科教授、费城儿童医院疫苗教育中心主任。目前，作为美国国立卫生研究院疫苗工作组的成员，正在为抗击新冠肺炎而工作。他也是FDA疫苗和相关生物产品咨询委员会的成员，美国疾控中心免疫实践咨询委员会的成员。 作为疫苗领域的专家，他获得了许多奖项，包括马里兰大学医学院的J.Edmund Bradley儿科卓越奖；美国传染病学会疫苗开发青年研究员奖；以及美国国立卫生研究院颁发的研究职业发展奖。

This book describes the step-by-step process of writing a ray tracer from scratch. Using numerous examples that illustrate the ray-tracing concept and processes in detail, the author presents a ray-tracer design and sample code that allows for extensibility, efficiency of the algorithms, and readability. Chapters begin with stated aims and include questions and exercises that a...(展开全部)

A humorous picture book about the adventures of a light bulb who embarks on an enlightening journey, from the acclaimed author-illustrator of Petra. At the end of the hall, near the staircase, is a closet. In that closet lives Ray, who is a light bulb. Ray spends most of his time in darkness, which is pretty boring if you don't know how to fill it. So boring that Ray usually sl...(展开全部)

From National Book Award winner Ron Chernow, a landmark biography of Alexander Hamilton, the Founding Father who galvanized, inspired, scandalized, and shaped the newborn nation. Ron Chernow, whom the New York Times called "as elegant an architect of monumental histories as we've seen in decades," now brings to startling life the man who was arguably the most important fig...(展开全部)