Sacks: 117 books

Techniques of Functional Analysis for Differential and Integral Equations describes a variety of powerful and modern tools from mathematical analysis, for graduate study and further research in ordinary differential equations, integral equations and partial differential equations. Knowledge of these...

In the last two decades, there has been a major increase in the actual numbers of women diagnosed with breast cancer (from 65000 new cases 20 years ago in the United States to 183000 in 1993). Concomitant with this has been a shift toward making the diagnosis earlier and toward diagnosing an earlier...

Three M.I.T. students are brought together to work on an economics project; under such innocuous conditions, they never could have predicted how, over the next decade and half, their lives would be intertwined as they are drawn into an international plot to sabotage the economic power of America and...

Die Zeitschrift "Bild der Wissenschaft" kürte 1995 in der Rubrik Unterhaltung "Eine Anthropologin auf dem Mars" zum Wissenschaftsbuch des Jahres. Die Begründung: Das Buch, das ein Thema am spannendsten präsentiert: "In sieben spannenden Fallgeschichten führt der Mann mit dem Röntgenblick für...

Mia Jang’s murder in the spring of 2008 didn’t stand out as any less senseless than the other 522 homicides in New York City that year—not to the police who investigated the crime and not to the three people who witnessed it. But the tragic irony was that she had fallen victim to a botched robbery...