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The Rise of Numbers
The birth of modern mathematics
In the 15th and 16th centuries, mathematics was revived in Europe. Arabic numerals, including the hitherto unknown zero, conquered commercial life and ...
Thomas de Padova
Thomas de Padova was born in 1965 in Neuwied am Rhein. He studied physics and astronomy in Bonn und Bologna. He was formerly the science editor for the Tagesspiegel and worked in 2014 as a journalist in residence for the History of Science at the Max-Planck-Institut. His latest publications by Hanser are: Allein gegen die Schwerkraft (2015) and Nonna (2018).
Nonna
Nonna tells many stories: of a seaside village so remote that travelling there is a journey to a bygone age; of an old woman, who is simple yet resembles a character from a novel; of Italy and ...
moreAlone Against Gravity
Albert Einstein has changed our understanding of space and time forever. Thomas de Padova's biography sheds a new light on Einstein's general theory of relativity. In Berlin in 1914 Einstein's ...
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