April is said to be the cruellest month, as the poem goes, “mixing memory with desire”. And this is oddly reflected in some of the non-fiction books we’ve rounded up for you this month. There’s the ...
Emmy Noether was a mathematician who discovered perhaps the most profound idea in contemporary physics. Noether’s theorem, which she formulated in 1915, says that symmetries in the universe give rise ...
FISHER 1 in 1930 stated his “fundamental theorem of natural selection” in the form: “The rate of increase in fitness of any organism at any time is equal to its genetic variance in fitness at that ...