Len Pismen: The Swings of Science

Cover: 9783319997766 | The Swings of Science | From Complexity to Simplicity and Back | Buch

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Beschreibung

This book is a personal account of some aspects of the emergence of modern science, mostly from the viewpoint of those branches of physics which provided the much needed paradigm shift of "more is different" that heralded the advent of complexity science as an antidote to the purely reductionist approach in fundamental physics. It is also about the humans that have helped to shape these developments, including personal reminiscences and the realization that the so-called exact sciences are inevitably also a social endeavour with all its facets.
Served by the razor-sharp wit of the author, this erudite ramble is meant to be neither comprehensive nor systematic, but its generous insights will give the inquisitive academically trained mind a better understanding of what science, and physics in particular, could or should be about.

Über den Autor

Len Pismen is professor emeritus at Israel Institute of Technology where he held the Julius M. and Bernice Naiman Chair in Fluid Mechanics.
He has published two monographs - Vortices in Nonlinear Fields: From liquid crystals to superfluids, From non-equilibrium patterns to cosmic strings (Oxford University Press, 1999), Patterns and Interfaces in Dissipative Dynamics (Springer, 2006) - and is member of the editorial board of The European Physical Journal Special Topics .

Zusammenfassung

Provides an unconventional, personal and entertaining account of the emergence of modern physics, in particular complexity science

Includes autobiographical elements and personal reminiscences

Puts the development of science into a social context

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Swings Through the Ages.- Continuum Mechanics.- Continuum Beyond Mechanics.- From Continuum to Atoms.- Condensed Matter.- Quantum Matter.- Broken symmetry.- Complexity Simplified.- Complexity Strikes Back.- Quo Vadis?

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2018
Genre:	Technik allg.
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	viii 190 S. 25 s/w Illustr. 83 farbige Illustr. 190 p. 108 illus. 83 illus. in color.
ISBN-13:	9783319997766
ISBN-10:	3319997769
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	978-3-319-99776-6
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Pismen, Len
Auflage:	1st ed. 2018
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing Springer International Publishing AG
Maße:	235 x 155 x 12 mm
Von/Mit:	Len Pismen
Erscheinungsdatum:	19.12.2018
Gewicht:	0,312 kg

Artikel-ID: 114126847