Taller de Matemáticas 4

Following the overthrow of the classical world picture by the findings of quantum mechanics, physicists have proposed a broad gamut of alternative worldviews. The Quantum Enigma begins with the major recognition that each of these suffers from a certain residual Cartesianism that has been smuggled in unconsciously. It turns out that the moment this hidden and problematic premise is discarded, quantum theory begins to make sense in a way that it never has before. As the author shows, it is now possible, for the first time, to integrate the findings of quantum physics into a worldview that...

La colección País 360 está compuesta por títulos de ensayo divulgativo que comprenden diversos aspectos de la realidad colombiana. Los más destacados investigadores y analistas presentan su mirada independiente sobre los temas que hoy definen nuestro país. Colombia es un país privilegiado por la naturaleza: con dos mares -cuya extensión es equivalente a su área continental-, una excepcional variedad de paisajes, ocupa el segundo lugar en diversidad de especies de flora y fauna y de ecosistemas del mundo, y el sexto en reservas de agua dulce. Sin embargo, esta riqueza se ha...

Biographies and bibliographies of members are included in many of the volumes. Lists of members are usually given on covers of the numbers.

In the beginning, Earth was an inhospitably alien place―in constant chemical flux, covered with churning seas, crafting its landscape through incessant volcanic eruptions. Amid all this tumult and disaster, life began. The earliest living things were no more than membranes stretched across microscopic gaps in rocks, where boiling hot jets of mineral-rich water gushed out from cracks in the ocean floor. Although these membranes were leaky, the environment within them became different from the raging maelstrom beyond. These havens of order slowly refined the generation of energy, using it to...