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187 produkter
Mindful Universe
Quantum Mechanics and the Participating Observer
Inbunden, 2011
514 kr
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The classical mechanistic idea of nature that prevailed in science during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was an essentially mindless conception: the physically described aspects of nature were asserted to be completely determined by prior physically described aspects alone, with our …
Decoherence
and the Quantum-To-Classical Transition
Häftad, 2010
878 kr
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Over the course of the past decade, decoherence has become a ubiquitous scienti?c term popular in all kinds of research, from fundamental theories of quantum physics to applications in nanoengineering. Decoherence has been hailed as the solution to long-standing foundational problems dating back to …
Extreme Events in Nature and Society
Av Sergio Albeverio, Volker Jentsch m. fl.
Häftad, 2010
552 kr
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Significant, and usually unwelcome, surprises, such as floods, financial crisis, epileptic seizures, or material rupture, are the topics of Extreme Events in Nature and Society. The book, authored by foremost experts in these fields, reveals unifying and distinguishing features of extreme events, …
Mathematical Representation of Physical Reality
Inbunden, 2023
606 kr
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This book deals with the rise of mathematics in physical sciences, beginning with Galileo and Newton and extending to the present day. The book is divided into two parts. The first part gives a brief history of how mathematics was introduced into physics—despite its "unreasonable effectiveness" as …
Quantum Mechanics at the Crossroads
New Perspectives from History, Philosophy and Physics
Av James Evans, Alan S. Thorndike
Inbunden, 2006
552 kr
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Quantum mechanics is a beautiful, strange and successful theory that originated in the 1920s. The theory, which Niels Bohr regarded as finished and complete, has in the last few decades rapidly developed in unexpected directions. An intense new focus on the stranger aspects of the theory, including …
Second Law of Economics
Energy, Entropy, and the Origins of Wealth
Inbunden, 2011
961 kr
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Nothing happens in the world without energy conversion and entropy production. These fundamental natural laws are familiar to most of us when applied to the evolution of stars, biological processes, or the working of an internal combustion engine, but what about industrial economies and wealth …
Second Law of Economics
Energy, Entropy, and the Origins of Wealth
Häftad, 2013
552 kr
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Nothing happens in the world without energy conversion and entropy production. These fundamental natural laws are familiar to most of us when applied to the evolution of stars, biological processes, or the working of an internal combustion engine, but what about industrial economies and wealth …
Information—Consciousness—Reality
How a New Understanding of the Universe Can Help Answer Age-Old Questions of Existence
Inbunden, 2019
456 kr
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This open access book chronicles the rise of a new scientific paradigm offering novel insights into the age-old enigmas of existence. Over 300 years ago, the human mind discovered the machine code of reality: mathematics. By utilizing abstract thought systems, humans began to decode the workings of …
Spirals and Vortices
In Culture, Nature, and Science
Av Kinko Tsuji, Stefan C. Müller
Inbunden, 2019
961 kr
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This richly illustrated book explores the fascinating and ubiquitous occurrence of spirals and vortices in human culture and in nature. Spiral forms have been used as elements in the arts for thousands of years, whereas their role in nature and science – from DNA and sea shells to galaxies – is …
Stepping Stones to Synthetic Biology
Av Sergio Carrà
Häftad, 2018
628 kr
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This book explores fascinating topics at the edge of life, guiding the reader all the way from the relation of life processes to the second law of thermodynamics and the abundance of complex organic compounds in the universe through to the latest advances in synthetic biology and metabolic …
Computer Simulations in Science and Engineering
Concepts - Practices - Perspectives
Häftad, 2018
366 kr
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This book addresses key conceptual issues relating to the modern scientific and engineering use of computer simulations. It analyses a broad set of questions, from the nature of computer simulations to their epistemological power, including the many scientific, social and ethics implications of …
Wandering Towards a Goal
How Can Mindless Mathematical Laws Give Rise to Aims and Intention?
Av Anthony Aguirre, Brendan Foster m. fl.
Häftad, 2018
628 kr
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This collection of prize-winning essays addresses the controversial question of how meaning and goals can emerge in a physical world governed by mathematical laws. What are the prerequisites for a system to have goals? What makes a physical process into a signal? Does eliminating the homunculus …
What is Fundamental?
Av Anthony Aguirre, Brendan Foster m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
822 kr
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Are there truly fundamental entities in nature? Or are the things that we regard as fundamental in our theories – for example space, time or the masses of elementary particles – merely awaiting a derivation from a new, yet to be discovered theory based on elements that are more fundamental? This …
Reality of Time Flow
Local Becoming in Modern Physics
Inbunden, 2019
986 kr
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It is commonly held that there is no place for the 'now’ in physics, and also that the passing of time is something subjective, having to do with the way reality is experienced but not with the way reality is. Indeed, the majority of modern theoretical physicists and philosophers of physics contend …
NANO-CHIPS 2030
On-Chip AI for an Efficient Data-Driven World
Av Boris Murmann, Bernd Hoefflinger
Inbunden, 2020
1420 kr
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In this book, a global team of experts from academia, research institutes and industry presents their vision on how new nano-chip architectures will enable the performance and energy efficiency needed for AI-driven advancements in autonomous mobility, healthcare, and man-machine cooperation. Recent …
NANO-CHIPS 2030
On-Chip AI for an Efficient Data-Driven World
Av Boris Murmann, Bernd Hoefflinger
Häftad, 2021
1420 kr
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In this book, a global team of experts from academia, research institutes and industry presents their vision on how new nano-chip architectures will enable the performance and energy efficiency needed for AI-driven advancements in autonomous mobility, healthcare, and man-machine cooperation. Recent …
WITTGENSTEINIAN (adj.)
Looking at the World from the Viewpoint of Wittgenstein's Philosophy
Av Shyam Wuppuluri, Newton da Costa
Inbunden, 2019
986 kr
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“Tell me," Wittgenstein once asked a friend, "why do people always say, it was natural for man to assume that the sun went round the earth rather than that the earth was rotating?" His friend replied, "Well, obviously because it just looks as though the Sun is going round the Earth." Wittgenstein …
WITTGENSTEINIAN (adj.)
Looking at the World from the Viewpoint of Wittgenstein's Philosophy
Av Shyam Wuppuluri, Newton da Costa
Häftad, 2021
986 kr
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“Tell me," Wittgenstein once asked a friend, "why do people always say, it was natural for man to assume that the sun went round the earth rather than that the earth was rotating?" His friend replied, "Well, obviously because it just looks as though the Sun is going round the Earth." Wittgenstein …
On Art and Science
Tango of an Eternally Inseparable Duo
Inbunden, 2019
903 kr
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Einstein once remarked "After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well". In this volume, some of the world’s leading thinkers come together to expound on the …
On Art and Science
Tango of an Eternally Inseparable Duo
Häftad, 2020
645 kr
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Einstein once remarked "After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well". In this volume, some of the world’s leading thinkers come together to expound on the …
Morphogenesis Deconstructed
An Integrated View of the Generation of Forms
Av Len Pismen
Inbunden, 2020
878 kr
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This book is about morphogenesis as the genesis of forms. It is not restricted to plants growing from seed or animals developing from an embryo (although these do supply the most abundant examples) but also addresses kindred processes, from inorganic to social to biomorphic technology. It is about …
Morphogenesis Deconstructed
An Integrated View of the Generation of Forms
Av Len Pismen
Häftad, 2021
628 kr
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This book is about morphogenesis as the genesis of forms. It is not restricted to plants growing from seed or animals developing from an embryo (although these do supply the most abundant examples) but also addresses kindred processes, from inorganic to social to biomorphic technology. It is about …
Computer Meets Theoretical Physics
The New Frontier of Molecular Simulation
Av Giovanni Battimelli, Giovanni Ciccotti m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
455 kr
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This book provides a vivid account of the early history of molecular simulation, a new frontier for our understanding of matter that was opened when the demands of theoretical physicists were met by the availability of the modern computers. Since their inception, electronic computers have …
Computer Meets Theoretical Physics
The New Frontier of Molecular Simulation
Av Giovanni Battimelli, Giovanni Ciccotti m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
556 kr
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This book provides a vivid account of the early history of molecular simulation, a new frontier for our understanding of matter that was opened when the demands of theoretical physicists were met by the availability of the modern computers. Since their inception, electronic computers have …
Understanding Innovation Through Exaptation
Av Caterina AM La Porta, Stefano Zapperi m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
1129 kr
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This book explores the role of exaptation in diverse areas of life, with examples ranging from biology to economics, social sciences and architecture. The concept of exaptation, introduced in evolutionary biology by Gould and Vrba in 1982, describes the possibility that already existing traits can …
Understanding Innovation Through Exaptation
Av Caterina AM La Porta, Stefano Zapperi m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
1129 kr
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This book explores the role of exaptation in diverse areas of life, with examples ranging from biology to economics, social sciences and architecture. The concept of exaptation, introduced in evolutionary biology by Gould and Vrba in 1982, describes the possibility that already existing traits can …
Time, Progress, Growth and Technology
How Humans and the Earth are Responding
Inbunden, 2020
421 kr
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This book addresses the current challenges of sustainable development, including its social, economic and environmental components. The author argues that we need to develop a new concept of time based on inter-generational solidarity, which focuses both on the long- and the short term. The …
Earth, Our Living Planet
The Earth System and its Co-evolution With Organisms
Av Philippe Bertrand, Louis Legendre
Inbunden, 2021
386 kr
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Earth is, to our knowledge, the only life-bearing body in the Solar System. This extraordinary characteristic dates back almost 4 billion years. How to explain that Earth is teeming with organisms and that this has lasted for so long? What makes Earth different from its sister planets Mars and …
Earth, Our Living Planet
The Earth System and its Co-evolution With Organisms
Av Philippe Bertrand, Louis Legendre
Häftad, 2022
386 kr
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Earth is, to our knowledge, the only life-bearing body in the Solar System. This extraordinary characteristic dates back almost 4 billion years. How to explain that Earth is teeming with organisms and that this has lasted for so long? What makes Earth different from its sister planets Mars and …
Active Matter Within and Around Us
From Self-Propelled Particles to Flocks and Living Forms
Av Len Pismen
Inbunden, 2021
933 kr
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This book presents a comprehensive review of various aspects of the novel and rapidly developing field of active matter, which encompasses a wide variety of self-organized self-driven energy-consuming media or agents. Most naturally occurring examples are of biological origin, spanning all scales …
