The class of rough collision laws is quite large and includes random elements. Our main results characterize the rough collision laws for a freely moving rough disk and a fixed rough wall in dimension 2. Any collision law which (i) is symmetric with respect to a certain well-known invariant measure from billiards theory, and (ii) conserves the projection of the phase space velocity onto the “rolling velocity” is a rough collision law.

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Thomas Harriot: A Life in Science puts a human face to scientific inquiry in the Elizabethan and Jacobean worlds, and at long last gives proper due to the life and times of one of history's most remarkable minds.

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This volume offers to general and specialist readers alike the fullest and most complete survey of the development of science in the eighteenth century, exploring the implications of the 'scientific revolution' of the previous century and the major new growth-points, particularly in the experimental sciences.

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On the transformative role of greed in global science and technology during the 1980s.

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Drawing on vivid accounts from bioscientists who experienced and enacted the shift toward commercialization, the book offers an insider's view into the way scientists navigate the complex and shifting landscape of science, innovation, and economic policy.

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A rich, narrative explanation of the mathematics that has brought us machine learning and the ongoing explosion of artificial intelligence.

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In 2012, Munroe started answering reader-submitted hypotheticals using Internet research along with his own knowledge. That series, "What If," is the focus of this witty nonfiction debut, which features a plethora of new black-and-white cartoons.

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In accessible and engaging fashion, Global Mega-Science examines the origins of this unprecedented growth of knowledge production over the past hundred and twenty years.

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Can faith in God and belief in science coexist? Could our love of God inspire our love of His works, and could science even help us wonder at and love God more? Absolutely! In Scientists of Faith, readers will meet 28 brilliant men and women from different countries, time periods, religions, and fields of study who all share one thing in common: an unshakable faith in God.

The Blind Spot goes where no science book goes, urging us to create a new scientific culture that views ourselves both as an expression of nature and as a source of nature's self-understanding, so that humanity can flourish in the new millennium.