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Bill Bryson turns the universe into a conversational guide, tracing science from the Big Bang through evolution, geology, chemistry, astronomy, and particle physics with humor and clarity.

xn + yn = zn, where n represents 3, 4, 5, ...no solution "I have discovered a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain." With these words, the seventeenth-century French mathematician Pierre de Fermat threw down the gauntlet to future generations. What came to be known as Fermat's Last Theorem looked simple; proving it, however, became the Holy Grail of mathematics, baffling its finest minds for more than 350 years. In Fermat's Enigma--based on the author's award-winning documentary film, which aired on PBS's "Nova"--Simon Singh tells the astonishingly entertaining story of the pursuit of that grail, and the lives that were devoted to, sacrificed for, and saved by it. Here is a mesmerizing tale of heartbreak and mastery that will forever change your feelings about mathematics.

A biography of the prolific mathematician Paul Erdős, detailing his restless travels, groundbreaking collaborations, and the mathematical problems that shaped his legacy.

Explains how math connects to every aspect of life in a witty and clear way.

Explains how five groundbreaking equations have changed the world through their fascinating stories.

"This practical book delves into new cloud computing technologies and indicates the main challenges for their development in the future, especially for resource management problems. By systematizing cloud resource management problems, it helps knowledgeable readers who are not subject matter experts in a topic but want to have an in-depth analysis. It provides a parallel programming model, MapReduce, to parallelize multidimensional analytical query processing. The text includes how to master the fundamental concepts and programming models and apply them successfully to reach objectives. The authors discuss how to maximize the value of existing scheduling algorithms from a theoretical point of view"--