100 Most Important Science Ideas Key Concepts in Genetics, Physics and Mathematics

Name: 100 Most Important Science Ideas Key Concepts in Genetics, Physics and Mathematics
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ISBN: 9781554075270

ISBN-10: 1554075270

ISBN-13: 9781554075270

Edition: 2009

Authors: Mark Henderson, Joanne Baker, Tony Crilly, A. J. Crilly

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Explaining the crucial concepts of 21st-century science.This book simplifies and explains 100 key concepts in modern science in language easily understood by general readers. The authors use everyday examples and instructive diagrams -- for example, the genome, Sudoku and crossing time zones -- to describe scientific principles, hypotheses, theorems and laws. The ideas range from the simple to the subtle to the sophisticated and include:Chaos theory Genetic diseases String theory Gene therapy Fractals Superconductivity Cloning Game theory.Each idea is presented in two to four pages that include illustrations and text boxes. To put the discoveries in context, there are timelines that show…

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List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Firefly Books, Limited
Publication date: 9/1/2009
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 432
Size: 7.00" wide x 8.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 1.892
Language: English

Joanne Baker studied Physics at Cambridge and took her PhD at the University of Sydney in 1995. She is a physical science editor at Science magazine, where her speciality is space and earth science. She is the author of 50 Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know and Universe: 50 Ideas You Really Need to Know.



Introduction


Genetics


The theory of evolution


The laws of inheritance


Genes and chromosomes


Sex


Genes, proteins and DNA


The double helix


Cracking the code of life


Genetic engineering


The human genome


Lessons of the genome


Genetic determinism


Selfish genes


Nature versus nurture


Genetic diseases


Gene hunting


Cancer


Behavioral genetics


Genetic history


Sex genes


The battle of the sexes


Genetic fingerprinting


GM crops


Evo-devo


Stem cells


Cloning


Gene therapy


Genetic testing


Designer babies


Junk DNA


Copy number variation


Epigenetics


The RNA revolution


Artificial life


Physics


Mach's principle


Newton's laws of motion


Kepler's laws


Newton's law of gravitation


Conservation of energy


Second law of thermodynamics


Newton's theory of color


Huygens' principle


Bragg's law


Doppler effect


Ohm's law


Maxwell's equations


Planck's law


Photoelectric effect


Schrï¿½dinger's wave equation


Heisenberg uncertainty principle


Copenhagen interpretation


Schrï¿½dinger's cat


Rutherford's atom


Antimatter


Nuclear fission


Nuclear fusion


Standard model


Special relativity


General relativity


Black holes


Olbers' paradox


Hubble's law


The Big bang


Cosmic inflation


Dark matter


Cosmological constant


Fermi paradox


Anthropic principle


Mathematics


Pi


Euler's Number


Infinity


Imaginary numbers


Primes


Perfect Numbers


Fibonacci numbers


Golden rectangles


Pascal's triangle


Algebra


Logic


Proof


Sets


Calculus


Curves


Topology


Dimension


Fractals


Chaos


The parallel postulate


Graphs


Probability


Distributions


The normal curve


Connecting data


Groups


Matrices


Codes


Latin squares


The diet problem


Game theory


Fermat's last theorem


The Riemann hypothesis


Glossary


Index