The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World

The Measure of All Things

The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World

By
Ken Alder
Ken Alder
2002 • 452 pages

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55 books

Year 2002

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The Pillars of Creation
The Elegant Universe: Superstrings, Hidden Dimensions, and the Quest for the Ultimate Theory
The Truth
The Street Lawyer
Treasure Box
Inviting disaster
Coming Back Alive: The True Story of the Most Harrowing Search and Rescue Mission Ever Attempted on Alaska's High Seas

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Fermi Remembered
Goedel's Way: Exploits into an undecidable world
Brave Genius: A Scientist, a Philosopher, and Their Daring Adventures from the French Resistance to the Nobel Prize
Debate en torno a la etica del discurso de Apel: Diálogo filosófico Norte-Sur desde América Latina
Love and math : the heart of hidden reality
The Road to Reality
The Large, the Small and the Human Mind

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490 books

Social History

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Paradox of Plenty
The Age of Edison
Built: The Hidden Stories Behind our Structures
Voices from Chernobyl
A History of Private Life: From Pagan Rome to Byzantium

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History

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The Age of Edison
Paradox of Plenty
The Scarlet Sisters: Sex, Suffrage, and Scandal in the Gilded Age
The Oregon Trail Diary of Twin Sisters Cecilia Adams and Parthenia Blank in 1852: The Unabridged Diary
The Dressmakers of Auschwitz: The True Story of the Women Who Sewed to Survive
Malcolm X
The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic Expedition

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Sociology Anthropology

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Culture of Fear
Paradox of Plenty
Anti-Gender Politics in the Populist Moment
When Prophecy Fails
The Age of Edison
Jesus and John Wayne
The Authoritarians

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87 books

History Of Science

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Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time
Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World
Classified: The Untold Story of Racial Classification in America
Fatal Invention
Video Games Have Always Been Queer
Superior: The Return of Race Science

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26 books

Geography

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A is for aloha
Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of his Time
A Haunted Road Atlas: Sinister Stops and Dangerous Destinations, and True Crime Tales
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics
The Map that Changed the World: William Smith & the Birth of Modern Geology
Krakatoa: The Day the World Exploded: August 27, 1883
Ice Ages: Their Social and Natural History

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6 books

History Europe France

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Institutionalizing Gender: Madness, the Family, and Psychiatric Power in Nineteenth-Century France
A Train in Winter
Joan of Arc: A History
The Great Cat Massacre
Scholars of Mayhem: My Father's Secret War in Nazi-Occupied France
The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World

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51 books

Math

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The Code for Love and Heartbreak
The Biggest Number in the World: A Journey to the Edge of Mathematics
Hypatia of Alexandria
The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics
God Created the Integers: The Mathematical Breakthroughs That Changed History
The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid

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History Europe

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The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England
Ancestors: A History of Britain in Seven Burials
Institutionalizing Gender: Madness, the Family, and Psychiatric Power in Nineteenth-Century France
Remembering and Disremembering the Dead
Punishing the Criminal Corpse, 1700-1840: Aggravated Forms of the Death Penalty in England
The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance

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Geodesy

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The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World
The Underworld: Journeys to the Depths of the Ocean
The Deepest Map: The High-Stakes Race to Chart the World's Oceans