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Figments of Reality
Buch von Ian Stewart
Sprache: Englisch

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Popular science tour de force from bestselling authors, on evolution of intelligence, culture and mind.
Popular science tour de force from bestselling authors, on evolution of intelligence, culture and mind.
Über den Autor
Ian Stewart is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He has five honorary doctorates and is an honorary wizard of Unseen University. His more than 130 books include Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities and the four-volume series The Science of Discworld with Terry Pratchett and Jack Cohen. His SF novels include the trilogy Wheelers, Heaven, and Oracle (with Jack Cohen), The Living Labyrinth and Rock Star (with Tim Poston), and Jack of All Trades. Short story collections are Message from Earth and Pasts, Presents, Futures. His Flatland sequel Flatterland has extensive fantasy elements. He has published 33 short stories in Analog, Omni, Interzone, and Nature, with 10 stories in Nature's 'Futures' series. He was Guest of Honour at Novacon 29 in 1999 and Science Guest of Honour and Hugo Award Presenter at Worldcon 75 in Helsinki in 2017. He delivered the 1997 Christmas Lectures for BBC television. His awards include the Royal Society's Faraday Medal, the Gold Medal of the IMA, the Zeeman Medal, the Lewis Thomas Prize, the Euler Book Prize, the Premio Internazionale Cosmos, the Chancellor's Medal of the University of Warwick, and the Bloody Stupid Johnson Award for Innovative Uses of Mathematics.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface; Prologue; 1. The origins of life; 2. The reductionist nightmare; 3. Ant country; 4. Winning ways; 5. Universals and parochials; 6. Neural nests; 7. Features great and small; 8. What is it like to be a human?; 9. We wanted to have a chapter on free will, but we decided not to, so here it is; 10. Extelligence; 11. Simplex, complex, multiplex; Epilogue; Notes; Further reading; Index.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Genre: Biologie
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 340
ISBN-13: 9780521571555
ISBN-10: 0521571553
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Stewart, Ian
Hersteller: Cambridge University Press
Maße: 235 x 157 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Ian Stewart
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.12.2010
Gewicht: 0,705 kg
preigu-id: 106867961
Über den Autor
Ian Stewart is Emeritus Professor of Mathematics at the University of Warwick and a Fellow of the Royal Society. He has five honorary doctorates and is an honorary wizard of Unseen University. His more than 130 books include Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities and the four-volume series The Science of Discworld with Terry Pratchett and Jack Cohen. His SF novels include the trilogy Wheelers, Heaven, and Oracle (with Jack Cohen), The Living Labyrinth and Rock Star (with Tim Poston), and Jack of All Trades. Short story collections are Message from Earth and Pasts, Presents, Futures. His Flatland sequel Flatterland has extensive fantasy elements. He has published 33 short stories in Analog, Omni, Interzone, and Nature, with 10 stories in Nature's 'Futures' series. He was Guest of Honour at Novacon 29 in 1999 and Science Guest of Honour and Hugo Award Presenter at Worldcon 75 in Helsinki in 2017. He delivered the 1997 Christmas Lectures for BBC television. His awards include the Royal Society's Faraday Medal, the Gold Medal of the IMA, the Zeeman Medal, the Lewis Thomas Prize, the Euler Book Prize, the Premio Internazionale Cosmos, the Chancellor's Medal of the University of Warwick, and the Bloody Stupid Johnson Award for Innovative Uses of Mathematics.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Preface; Prologue; 1. The origins of life; 2. The reductionist nightmare; 3. Ant country; 4. Winning ways; 5. Universals and parochials; 6. Neural nests; 7. Features great and small; 8. What is it like to be a human?; 9. We wanted to have a chapter on free will, but we decided not to, so here it is; 10. Extelligence; 11. Simplex, complex, multiplex; Epilogue; Notes; Further reading; Index.
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Genre: Biologie
Rubrik: Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium: Buch
Seiten: 340
ISBN-13: 9780521571555
ISBN-10: 0521571553
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Einband: Gebunden
Autor: Stewart, Ian
Hersteller: Cambridge University Press
Maße: 235 x 157 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Ian Stewart
Erscheinungsdatum: 16.12.2010
Gewicht: 0,705 kg
preigu-id: 106867961
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