Mapping the Next Millennium - Softcover

Hall, S.

 
9780679741756: Mapping the Next Millennium

Synopsis

Discusses the use of innovative new techniques to map diverse areas of the universe, from the mathmatical constant pi, to human chromosomes, to the ocean floor

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tunning and conceptually explosive report from the frontiers of mapmaking. Ranging from the mapping of the ocean floor to the scanning of remote galaxies, from portraits of subatomic collisions to an unprecedented view of the mathematical constant "pi, " this work makes the theoretical compellingly concrete, even as it reminds us that the world is far more vast than we ever dreamed. Photographs throughout.

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