Review of The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World by Ken Alder: Free Press, New York, 2002, ISBN: 0-7432-1676-8, Price: $15.00, 436 pp.
Based on: The Measure of All Things: The Seven-Year Odyssey and Hidden Error That Transformed the World, Free Press, 0-7432-1676-8, $15.00
Publication: Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice
Volume 131, Issue 1
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Journal of Professional Issues in Engineering Education and Practice
Volume 131 • Issue 1 • January 2005
Pages: 63 - 65
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