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En 1956 el doctor Paul Kuroda propuso la existencia de reactores de fision nuclear naturales en epocas geologicas pasadas. Sin embargo, como a menudo sucede, sus colegas no le creyeron. En 1972, H. Bouzigues y sus colaboradores realizaron, en la planta de materiales fisionables de Pierrelatte, un analisis que midio una pequena perdida de uranio-235 en los minerales de este elemento. Encontraron que esa perdida se debia a un fenomeno extraordinario ocurrido en Gabon, Africa, cuando ese territorio era parte de la Pangea: el uranio-235 faltante se habia consumido en una serie de reactores...

Geographic Information Systems (GIS) play a pivotal role in the field of urban planning and management and provide better solutions for numerous urban problems. With GIS, one has the ability to better understand existing requirements of a city and its design to fulfill those needs. This book contributes to developing scientific knowledge based on geospatial technologies among planners, researchers, scientists, professionals, students, and laymen and providing them with better understanding for urban planning and management at various levels. The book manifests the importance of GIS in better...

Delineating the huge strides taken in cosmology in the past ten years, this much-anticipated second edition of Malcolm Longair's highly appreciated textbook has been extensively and thoroughly updated. It tells the story of modern astrophysical cosmology from the perspective of one of its most important and fundamental problems – how did the galaxies come about? Longair uses this approach to introduce the whole of what may be called "classical cosmology". What’s more, he describes how the study of the origin of galaxies and larger-scale structures in the Universe has provided us with...

In the framework of the 20th International Congress of History of Science (Liege 1997), a symposium was devoted to the historical work of Adolph P. Youschkevitch (1906-1993). The present volume includes the papers read during the symposium as well as contributions on current issues in the history of mathematics: mathematics as a cultural strength, mathematics from antiquity to the classical period, probability theory and its applications, mathematics in the 19th and 20th centuries.

La 3ª. edición de esta obra corresponde a la actualización del programa de estudios de Temas selectos de física 1 de la DGB, destacando las actividades transversales. Tienen como propósito que el estudiante reconozca las condiciones de equilibrio de diferentes sistemas de fuerzas, explique las causas de diferentes tipos de movimiento, analice modelos de máquinas simples y explique fenómenos de colisiones.