Charles Flowers

Instability Rules

The Ten Most Amazing Ideas of Modern Science

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A light, accessible introduction to the ten most important discoveries in science and math during the 20th century.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: John Wiley & Sons / Turner Publishing Company
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 243mm x 164mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780471380429
• ISBN-10: 0471380423
• Artikelnr.: 10536777

Autorenporträt

CHARLES FLOWERS is an award-winning author or coauthor of fifty-eight books, most recently Mapping the Stars, The Big Bang (with David Appel), and A Science Odyssey: 100 Years of Discovery, the companion book to the PBS series.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface: "It Moves . . . " 1 Hubble and the Expanding Universe. 2 Einstein and the Wonder of Light. 3 Bohr and the Puzzles of the Quantum World. 4 Wegener and the Dance of the Continents. 5 Big Bang
Big Crunch
and Big Bore. 6 Fermat
Godel
and Fuzzy Math. 7 Mendel
Watson
Crick
and the Human Genome. 8 Hominids
Humans
and the Search for Origins. 9 Turing and the Brain as Computer
and Vice Versa. 10 Freud
the Unconscious
and Other Views. Acknowledgments. Photo Credits. Index.