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How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine . . . for Now
Stanislas Dehaene · Viking
Pages: 352
Format: Hardcover
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An illuminating dive into the latest science on our brain's remarkable learning abilities and the potential of the machines we program to imitate themThe human brain is an extraordinary machine. Its ability to process information and adapt to circumstances by reprogramming itself is unparalleled... |
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Humble Pi: When Math Goes Wrong in the Real World
Matt Parker · Riverhead Books
Pages: 336
Format: Hardcover
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This entertaining tour of real-world mathematical disasters reveals the importance of math in our everyday lives An international bestseller Our whole world is built on math, from the code running a website to the equations enabling the design of skyscrapers and bridges. Most of the time... |
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SAM: One Robot, a Dozen Engineers, and the Race to Revolutionize the Way We Build
Jonathan Waldman · Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
Pages: 288
Format: Hardcover
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A true story of innovation, centered on a scrappy team of engineers - far from the Silicon Valley limelight - and their quest to achieve a surprisingly difficult technological feat: building a robot that can lay bricks.Humans have landed men on the moon, programmed cars to drive themselves,... |
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Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives
Daniel J Levitin · Dutton
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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Author of the iconic bestsellers This Is Your Brain on Music and The Organized Mind, Daniel Levitin turns his keen insights to what happens in our brains as we age, why we should think about health span, not life span, and, based on a rigorous analysis of neuroscientific evidence,... |
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Human Diversity: The Biology of Gender, Race, and Class
Charles Murray · Twelve
Pages: 528
Format: Hardcover
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All people are equal but, as Human Diversity explores, all groups of people are not the same -- a fascinating investigation of the genetics and neuroscience of human differences.The thesis of Human Diversity is that advances in genetics and neuroscience are overthrowing an intellectual... |
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