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3 produkter
3 produkter
Del 39 - Studies in Philosophy, Culture and Contemporary Society
Forgotten Genius of Physics, a work on Marian Smoluchowski
The Story of Marian Smoluchowski
Inbunden, Engelska, 2025
762 kr
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The Forgotten Genius of Physics, a work on Marian Smoluchowski is a popular science book aimed at introducing the outstanding physicist and philosopher to a wider audience. It contains many biographical elements, using memoir materials that describe Smoluchowski as a teacher, scientist, mountaineer and family man, which were published in large numbers after the physicist’s unexpected death.In the last years of his life, Smoluchowski devoted much attention to the problem of randomness. His research laid the foundation for a new branch of mathematics - statistical physics. He is considered the creator of the discipline dealing with the application of probability theory to research in physics. Ironically, one could say that Smoluchowski’s death was a coincidence. During a trip to the Ojców region, he bathed in the small Pra˛tnica river. On the same day, sewage was released into the river from an Austrian army camp upstream, causing bacteriological contamination. This led to a severe attack of dysentery and prematurely ended the scientist’s life.
Del 41 - Studies in Philosophy, Culture and Contemporary Society
Philosophy of Nature and Philosophy of Physics in the Writings of Marian Smoluchowski
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
762 kr
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Marian Smoluchowski is the most frequently cited Polish scientist – Web of Science estimates the number of citations of his works in the period from 1894 to 2014 at 7,235 (Maria Curie-Skłodowska was cited 1,582 times during the same period). Equations relating to the theory of stochastic processes are regularly cited, and Smoluchowski’s continuity equation is used in descriptions of sedimentation and coagulation processes. His research on Brownian motion contributed to the triumph of atomistic theory in physics. Thanks to their use, Richard Zsigmondy, Jean Perrin, and Theodor Svedberg received the Nobel Prize in 1925–1926. The book presents the Polish physicist’s contribution to science and philosophy, especially the philosophy of nature. Smoluchowski’s research on cause and chance led to the introduction of probability calculus into physics. His theory of the criterion of usefulness answers the questions of how science develops and how we verify hypotheses and theories. He proves that usefulness is a universal category and applies to all aspects of human functioning in the natural world.
Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
689 kr
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Jan Grzanka's book is a collection of sixteen essays devoted to the works of William Shakespeare, written with passionate and curious theatergoers in mind. The author encourages readers to become directors themselves as they read, discovering their own meanings and co-creating the significance of Shakespeare's plays. It is an invitation to make creative choices and discover aspects of Shakespeare's thinking that remain relevant today.“Jan Grzanka's essay is an excellent account of how Shakespeare's works can resonate in our contemporary reception. The author is neither a literary scholar nor a theatre scholar. He is a philosopher who has found in the great playwright's plays fascinating material for reflection in the context - on the one hand - of his own reading, but also in the juxtaposition of his reading of the plays with their theatrical realisations. To this Grzanka incorporates what can be called experience and observation of his own reality. As a result, he offers the reader interesting and unusual material for reflection and at the same time infects them with his enthusiasm for Shakespeare. He invites the reader to reread, to go to the theatre, to discover their own Shakespeare and, through his dramas, to think more deeply about their own experience of the world.” – Prof. Dr hab. Marta Gibińska-Marzec, Uniwersytet SWPS