The Pea and the Sun

Author: Leonard M. Wapner
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1439864845
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 233

Book Description
Take an apple and cut it into five pieces. Would you believe that these five pieces can be reassembled in such a fashion so as to create two apples equal in shape and size to the original? Would you believe that you could make something as large as the sun by breaking a pea into a finite number of pieces and putting it back together again? Neither did Leonard Wapner, author of The Pea and the Sun, when he was first introduced to the Banach-Tarski paradox, which asserts exactly such a notion. Written in an engaging style, The Pea and the Sun catalogues the people, events, and mathematics that contributed to the discovery of Banach and Tarski's magical paradox. Wapner makes one of the most interesting problems of advanced mathematics accessible to the non-mathematician.

If Pluto Was a Pea

Author: Gabrielle Prendergast
Publisher: Margaret K. McElderry Books
ISBN: 153440435X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
Join two curious kids as they explore their backyard, and contemplate their place within our vast universe in this adorable picture book that’s full of comparisons to help kids understand cosmic size. If Pluto was a pea… the Sun would be like a tent, Mercury would be a marble, and Earth would be a golf ball. Pluto is the smallest planet in our solar system, but how small is small? As it turns out, it only takes the contents of a lunchbox and a backyard to find out.

Little Green Peas

Author: Keith Baker
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1442476613
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
Keith Baker’s charming peas romp through a rainbow of colors in Little Green Peas, which now comes with a CD narrated by award-winning actor Stanley Tucci! The little green peas are back to celebrate the colorful world around them. Join the fun as they fly red kites, sail blue boats, ski down purple mountains, and more! Read along with the enclosed CD as Stanley Tucci narrates this fresh and fun exploration of color!

Black Eyed Peas Present: Masters of the Sun

Author:
Publisher: Marvel
ISBN: 9781302910846
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
FROM THE MIND OF WILL.I.AM COMES A FUTURISTIC B-BOY ZOMBIE THRILLER, FUSING TOGETHER THE UNLIKELIEST OF GENRES WITH EASE! Masters Of the Sun mixes L.A. Gang culture, B-Boy-ism and Egyptology to tell the heroic tale of a Hip-Hop group from East L.A. who must battle an ancient, alien God sent to earth to continue a Black Curse--which turns drug dealers and gangsters into zombies! With a deep love of the Hip-Hop culture, Zulu-X and his crew go head-to-head with a nefarious ancient order that has infiltrated the inner cities to settle an ancient score. What happens next can only be described as the perfect blend of action, ancient wisdom and street-smarts all rolled into one epic adventure. Boasting one of the most eclectic ensemble cast of characters, Masters of the Sun delivers a powerful social allegory in the form of a new movement...#stayWOKE!!!

Sunday's Child

Author: Tom Lewis
Publisher: McBryde Publishing
ISBN: 098431847X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 287

Book Description
Sunday Everette has a childhood unlike any other in the "Jim Crow" era of the South, growing up at the Pea Island Life-Saving Station among the barren dunes of North Carolina's stormy Outer Banks. In sheltered isolation, guided solely by the influence of the Station's heroic all-black crewmen, she blossoms into a strong and beautiful young woman with a spirit to match. But Sunday's secluded paradise cannot last. Her calm, simple days by the sea must inevitably give way to the fast-approaching storms of life. Unexpectedly, those darkening skies bring with them an unlikely mix of forbidden love, murder, and revenge--along with a Nazi submarine carrying millions of dollars in gold stolen from Hitler's Third Reich. First in a trilogy, Sunday's Child begins the saga of three unique families from across the world, flung fatally together by three of mankind's most basic traits: war, love, and greed.

Sun! One in a Billion

Author: Stacy McAnulty
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company (BYR)
ISBN: 125022991X
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 21

Book Description
From the author of Earth! My First 4.54 Billion Years comes a new picture book about space—this time starring our Sun! Meet Sun: He's a star! And not just any star—he's one in a billion. He lights up our solar system and makes life possible. With characteristic humor and charm, Stacy McAnulty channels the voice of Sun in this next celestial "autobiography." Rich with kid-friendly facts and beautifully illustrated, Sun! One in a Billion is an equally charming and irresistible companion to Earth! My First 4.54 Billion Years.

Bulletin

Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 838

Book Description

Physics of the Sun and Its Atmosphere

Author: B. N. Dwivedi
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9812832718
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 294

Book Description
This book presents a pedagogical, updated and modern view of the Sun from its interior to its exterior as well as the Sun?Earth system. Written by eminent scientists in solar physics, the chapters deal with recent advances in solar physics, seismic Sun, solar magnetic field, waves and oscillations, spectroscopic diagnostics of solar plasmas, partially ionized lower atmosphere, coronal heating, coronal mass ejections, radio Sun, solar wind, and the Sun?Earth system. Each chapter is fully illustrated and has a comprehensive reference list. The book covers all major topics in solar physics, and presents a rich menu to motivate graduate students who wish to pursue a solar physics research career.

Mathematics and the Imagination

Author: Edward Kasner
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486320278
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 402

Book Description
With wit and clarity, the authors progress from simple arithmetic to calculus and non-Euclidean geometry. Their subjects: geometry, plane and fancy; puzzles that made mathematical history; tantalizing paradoxes; more. Includes 169 figures.

The World of Mathematics

Author: James Roy Newman
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486411516
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 627

Book Description
Presents 33 essays on such topics as statistics and the design of experiments, group theory, the mathematics of infinity, the mathematical way of thinking, the unreasonableness of mathematics, and mathematics as an art. A reprint of volume 3 of the four-volume edition originally published by Simon and Schuster in 1956. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).