When Andrew Wiles of Princeton University announced a solution of Fermat's last theorem in 1993, it electrified the world of mathematics. After a flaw was discovered in the proof, Wiles had to work for another year--he had already labored in solitude for seven years--to establish that he had solved the 350-year-old problem. Simon Singh's book is a lively, comprehensible explanation of Wiles's work and of the star-, trauma-, and wacko-studded history of Fermat's last theorem. Fermat's Enigma contains some problems that offer a taste of the math, but it also includes limericks to give a feeling for the goofy side of mathematicians.
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“One of those books you literally can’t put down . . . makes The Hot Zone virus—far away in a rainforest—look like no big deal.”—Detroit Free Press Five days ago, a homeless man on a subway platform died in agony as startled commuters looked on. Yesterday, a teenager started having violent, uncontrollable spasms in art class. Within minutes, she too was dead. Dr. Alice Austen is a medical pathologist at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. What she knows is that the two deaths are connected. What she fears is that they are only the beginning. . . . “Manages to grab you with the authenticity of its scientific detective work and haunt you with its sheer plausibility.”—Entertainment Weekly
In tutto il mondo si è negli ultimi mesi iniziato a parlare con grande interesse di intelligenza emotiva e di come questa facoltà, opportunamente coltivata, possa permettere a tutti di condurre una vita migliore. A partire da un suo studio che dimostra come i figli di genitori bravi "allenatori emotivi" siano più equilibrati e sereni, più disposti ad apprendere e interagire, in una parola più felici, Gottman distingue quattro tipologie di madri e di padri: e delinea per ciascuna, con ricchezza di esempi, le linee-guida del miglior percorso di educazione emotiva.
Daniel Goleman verklaart in heldere en begrijpelijke taal zijn theorie over EQ, het ‘emotiequotiënt’. Hij laat zien dat emotionele vaardigheden, meer dan rationele vaardigheden, van doorslaggevend belang zijn voor succes in werk en relaties en voor ons lichamelijk welbevinden.