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Richard Feynman is an American physicist who is famous in a number of dimensions. To scientists, he is a giant of 20th-century physics and a pioneer of quantum electrodynamics (QED). To the public, he is a refreshing character that went against the typical stereotype of physicists. To physics students, he was an exceptionally excellent teacher, both for his charisma and his uncanny ability to make complicated topics feel natural and intuitive. Although many of the lectures he gave at Caltech are immortalized in his three-volume series “The Feynman Lectures on Physics.” Unfortunately, not all of the lectures he gave made it to this series. In particular, a guest lecture given on March 13, 1964, entitled “The Motion of Planets around the Sun” was lost because it was somehow buried in the office of one of Feynman’s colleagues. The lecture notes were later found and restored by Caltech physicist David L. Goodstein and his wife, who worked at Caltech as an archivist. Eventually, it was published in a book titled “Feynman’s Lost Lecture,” which contains both the lecture itself and the surrounding stories in a beautiful way. The lecture mainly tries to answer the question “Why are orbits elliptic?” There is an analytical solution involving pedantic mathematical formulas, but Feynman did something special by providing a very elementary approach to answering the question. It would be a nice supplement for some students taking Physics I course since Physics I never really answers the cause of the elliptic orbits of planets.

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This book provides a self-contained introduction to ordinary differential equations and dynamical systems suitable for beginning graduate students or advanced undergraduate students. The best part of this book is how well it interlocks the very palpable concepts of mathematics such as chaos, fractals, and dynamical systems to abstract pure mathematics. It makes it an interesting text for both engineers and pure/applied mathematicians. It was even recommended by my Mathematical Analysis II (Analisi Matematica II) instructor.

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Books usually cannot replace passionate and inspiring lecturers. However, I think this book gets quite close. This the most authoritative and accessible single-volume reference book on applied mathematics really demonstrates underlying mathematical principles that serve as cornerstones for many areas, including, but not limited to engineering. In addition, it simultaneously seves as a good and quick reference book for recaping.

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Il volume rappresenta uno dei più importanti e recenti saggi dedicati all’implementazione delle policy (alla sua 4 edizione a oltre 20 anni dalla prima). Ricostruisce la storia del filone di studi sull’implementazione, e fornisce importanti indicazioni sulla ricerca di carattere sia teorico che metodologico.

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Buongiorno, sono uno studente di architettura al secondo anno di magistrale. Affrontando il mio percorso di tesi mi sono imbattuto in questo libro che contiene numerosi contenuti relativi all’argomento della povertà Energetica. Essendo un tema decisamente attuale, ritengo che questo libro possa contribuire a dare informazioni essenziali per tutti gli studenti che intendono percorrere una ricerca in questo campo, specialmente nel rapporto tra architettura e consumi energetici. Inoltre, la biblioteca al momento non fornisce alcun volume riguardante tali tematiche.

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Avrei la necessità di leggere questo libro in quanto sto svolgendo un progetto di tesi con il professore Caliari che ci ha suggerito questa lettura.

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The volume is of great interest for the Ph.D. candidate research and for the School of Architecture (in particular in the frame of the studies of Architectural History).
A short summary follows:
Re-forming Britain considers the nature and practice of architectural modernism in inter-war Britain in a new light. Bringing hitherto little considered protagonists and projects to the fore, it argues that rather than being an imported idiom, the new architecture in Britain formed part of an ongoing attempt to make a modern nation.

Spanning the period 1925-42, the book focuses on the key sites from and through which architectural modernism emerged in the UK. Part one considers the main arena in which a will to modernize Britain developed in the 1920s. In parts two and three the author documents, contextualizes and explains how this modernizing will was given modernist form, discussing the work of architects such as Wells Coates, Maxwell Fry, and Connell and Ward, and their allied ventures with likeminded reformers in other fields. These collaborations produced ‘narratives of modernity’: buildings, projects, exhibitions and books, through which, the book argues, modernist reformers were able to persuade politicians, and those with influence upon them, that modernism was the means to re-form the nation.

Re-forming Britain offers the first in-depth analysis of well-known modernist schemes such as Kensal House and the Pioneer Health Centre but also brings previously little studied or unknown activities to light. This important work invites a new understanding of the nature of architectural modernism in inter-war Britain and the ways in which it ultimately gave form to post-war Britain.

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Storia dell’urbanistica italiana, utile per corsi e studenti italiani di architettura e pianificazione nell’approfondimento dell’urbanistica

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Questo libro introduce un quadro concettuale per favorire l’analisi delle storie spaziali delle Americhe. Utile a ricerca.
L’idea fondamentale che lo spazio e il luogo siano importanti è condivisa in architettura, progettazione urbana, pianificazione e Landscape. La maggior parte delle informazioni canoniche di queste professioni proviene da altre regioni e da altri continenti.

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This is what I wish I learned from in my first year. Honestly, the third of it that is about linear algebra is one of the best linear algebra resources out there. It doesn’t pull any punches for the pure math students, but unlike many books with that target audience it stays grounded in frequent numerical examples and scientific applications. The culmination to the generalized Stokes’ theorem, as well as the way to frame Maxwell’s equations with differential forms, are particularly satisfying.

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