Popular Astronomy

Popular astronomy.

The Springer-Praxis Popular Astronomy programme covers the latest observations, techniques and discoveries in astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology, selecting key topics designed to fire the imagination of keen astronomers everywhere. Many of the topics selected for titles in this programme are refreshingly new, and away from the accepted mainstream of titles published in this area. Topics inc...

Popular astronomy.

The Springer-Praxis Popular Astronomy programme covers the latest observations, techniques and discoveries in astronomy, astrophysics and cosmology, selecting key topics designed to fire the imagination of keen astronomers everywhere. Many of the topics selected for titles in this programme are refreshingly new, and away from the accepted mainstream of titles published in this area. Topics inc...

Astronomy , Science Fiction and Popular Culture : 1277 to 2001 ( And beyond )

stories, myths and tales can make ideas a part of popular culture. rea at religious figures have taught with parables; we use fables and fairy tales to teach our children about life; and it has been argued that even the ancient Greek myths might have been deliberate devices for organizing and transmitting information about the natural world to non-scientifically oriented people [I]. Once an ide...

Popular and Clan-Popular b-Matchings

Suppose that each member of a set of agents has a preference list of a subset of houses, possibly involving ties, and each agent and house has their capacity denoting the maximum number of houses/agents (respectively) that can be matched to him/her/it. We want to find a matching M , called popular, for which there is no other matching M ′ such that more agents prefer M ′ to M than M to M ′, sub...

"popular" Science.