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En este fascinante viaje por el tiempo y el espacio nos remontamos a aquellos momentos en los que las constelaciones conservaban a

¿Hay vida en otros planetas? Esta obra trata esta cuestión desde diferentes puntos de vista, pero siempre de un modo rigurosamente científico, según el enfoque de un gran experto en geología planetaria que se dedica de manera activa a la investigación y la enseñanza en el novedoso campo de la astrobiología. De manera exhaustiva y clara, al nivel de la alta divulgación, Jakosky analiza los aspectos científicos relevantes para considerar las posibilidades de vida extraterrestre: la vida en ambientes extremos de nuestro propio planeta, condiciones de habitabilidad en nuestro Sistema...

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.