Invisible in the Storm : : The Role of Mathematics in Understanding Weather / / John Norbury, Ian Roulstone.
Invisible in the Storm is the first book to recount the history, personalities, and ideas behind one of the greatest scientific successes of modern times--the use of mathematics in weather prediction. Although humans have tried to forecast weather for millennia, mathematical principles were used in...
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