Peter Pesic Books
Polyphonic Minds: Music Of The Hemispheres
By Peter Pesic
An exploration of polyphony and the perspective it offers on our own polyphonic brains.Polyphony—the interweaving of simultaneous sounds—is a crucial aspect of music that has deep implications for...
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Environmental Evolution - 2nd Edition: Effects Of The Origin And Evolution Of Life On Planet Earth
By Clifford Matthews, Lynn Margulis, Clifford N Matthews, Peter Pesic, Aaron. Haselton
Nature has secrets, and it is the desire to uncover them that motivates the scientific quest. But what makes these "secrets" secret? Is it that they are beyond human ken? that they concern divine m...
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Sky In A Bottle
Children Ask, Why Is The Sky Blue? But The Question Also Puzzled Plato, Leonardo, And Even Newton, Who Unlocked So Many Other Secrets. The Search For An Answer Continued For Centuries; In 1862 Sir...
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Environmental Evolution - 2nd Edition: Effects Of The Origin And Evolution Of Life On Planet Earth
By Clifford Matthews, Lynn Margulis, Peter Pesic, Aaron. Haselton
Nature has secrets, and it is the desire to uncover them that motivates the scientific quest. But what makes these "secrets" secret? Is it that they are beyond human ken? that they concern divine m...
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Labyrinth: A Search For The Hidden Meaning Of Science
By Peter Pesic
Reading scientific works as works of literature to uncover the roots of science. Kirkus Reviews Pesic, a tutor and musician in residence at St. John's College in Santa Fe, sees scientists as driven...
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Abel'S Proof
By Peter Pesic
The intellectual and human story of a mathematical proof that transformed our ideas about mathematics.In 1824 a young Norwegian named Niels Henrik Abel proved conclusively that algebraic equations...
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