Silliman Memorial Lectures Series – serie
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Computer and the Brain
Häftad, 2012
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166 kr
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In this classic work, one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century explores the analogies between computing machines and the living human brain. John von Neumann, whose many contributions to science, mathematics, and engineering include the basic organizational framework at the heart …
Mankind Evolving
The Evolution of the Human Species
Häftad, 1962
402 kr
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The Silliman Lectures at Yale University have been responsible for many books which have greatly influenced the progress of scientific work in the twentieth century. One of the foremost scientists of our time, Theodosius Dobzhansky, recipient of the Elliot and Kimbler prizes, and Da Costa Professor …
Origins of Knowledge and Imagination
Häftad, 1979
217 kr
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“A gem of enlightenment. . . . One rejoices in Bronowski’s dedication to the identity of acts of creativity and of imagination, whether in Blake or Yeats or Einstein or Heisenberg.”—Kirkus Reviews“A delightful look at the inquiring mind.”—Library JournalIn this eloquent volume Jacob Bronowski, …
Man Adapting
With a New Chapter by the Author
Av Rene Dubos
Häftad, 1980
785 kr
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This enlarged edition of Man Adapting includes a new chapter expanding Dr. Dubos’s discussion of the role of medicine in man’s adaptive processes. In 1965 he wrote at length of the biological and social problems of human adaptation, while treating the medical aspects of this problem only in …
Material Basis of Evolution
Reissued
Häftad, 1940
711 kr
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In his autobiography, published posthumously in 1960, Richard Goldschmidt wrote: “I am confident that in twenty years my [work], which is now ignored, will be given an honorable place in the history of evolutionary thought.” The publication of this edition, now reissued with a new introduction by …
Black Holes
The Membrane Paradigm
Av Kirk S. Thorne, Douglas A. MacDonald m. fl.
Häftad, 1986
601 kr
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This pedagogical introduction to the physics of black holes emphasizes the “membrane paradigm”, which translates the mathematics and physics of black holes into a form accessible to readers with little knowledge of general relativity but a solid grounding in nonrelativistic physics. This is …
President’s Scientists
Reminiscences of a White House Science Advisor
Häftad, 1994
522 kr
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D. Allan Bromley, one of the world's leading nuclear physicists, was The Assistant to President George Bush for Science and Technology Policy from August 1989 to January 1993. He was the first Science Advisor to have this Cabinet-level rank.In this engrossing memoir of his years at the White House, …
Radioactive Transformations
Av Ernest Rutherford, Frank Wilczek
Häftad, 2012
565 kr
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Radioactive Transformations describes Ernest Rutherford’s Nobel Prize-winning investigations into the mysteries of radioactive matter. In this historic work, Rutherford outlines the scientific investigations that led to and coincided with his own research—including the work of Wilhelm Rӧntgen, J. …
Elementary Particles
Av Enrico Fermi
Häftad, 2012
327 kr
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First published in 1951, Enrico Fermi’s Elementary Particles remains a valuable guide for physicists and scholars. Fermi’s descriptions of the then-known particle universe and its nascent conceptual framework allow readers to glimpse the foundations of the field from the perspective of one of its …
Realm of the Nebulae
Av Edwin Hubble
Häftad, 2013
492 kr
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In less than a century, the accepted picture of the universe transformed from a stagnant place, composed entirely of our own Milky Way galaxy, to a realm inhabited by billions of individual galaxies, hurtling away from one another. We must thank, in part, Edwin P. Hubble, one of the greatest …
