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[EAN: 9780198609414], Neubuch, [SC: 11.99], [PU: OUP Oxford], ENGLISCHE BÜCHER / NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN; ENTDECKUNG (ALLGEMEIN), Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Any lite… More...

[EAN: 9780198609414], Neubuch, [SC: 11.99], [PU: OUP Oxford], ENGLISCHE BÜCHER / NATURWISSENSCHAFTEN; ENTDECKUNG (ALLGEMEIN), Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Any literate person should be familiar with the central ideas of modern science. In his sparkling new book, Peter Atkins introduces his choice of the ten great ideas of science. With wit, charm, patience, and astonishing insights, he leads the reader through the emergence of the concepts, and then presents them in a strikingly effective manner. At the same time, he works into his engaging narrative an illustration of the scientific method and shows how simple ideascan have enormous consequences.His choice of the ten great ideas are:\\* Evolution occurs by natural selection, in which the early attempts at explaining the origin of species is followed by an account of the modern approach and some of its unsolved problems.\\* Inheritance is encoded in DNA, in which the story of the emergence of an understanding of inheritance is followed through to the mapping of the human genome.\\* Energy is conserved, in which we see how the central concept of energy gradually dawned on scientists as they mastered the motion of particles and the concept of heat.\\* All change is the consequence of the purposeless collapse of energy and matter into disorder, in which the extraordinarily simple concept of entropy is used to account for events in the world.\\* Matter is atomic, in which we see how the concept of atoms emerged and how the different personalities of the elements arise from the structures of their atoms.\\* Symmetry limits, guides, and drives, in which we see how concepts related to beauty can be extended to understand the nature of fundamental particles and the forces that act between them.\\* Waves behave like particles and particles behave like waves, in which we see how old familiar ideas gave way to the extraordinary insights of quantum theory and transformed our perception of matter.\\* The universe is expanding, in which we see how a combination of astronomy and a knowledge of elementary particles accounts for the origin of the universe and its long term future.\\* Spacetime is curved by matter, in which we see the emergence of the theories of special and general relativity and come to understand the nature of space and time.\\* If arithmetic is consistent, then it is incomplete, in which we learn the origin of numbers and arithmetic, see how the philosophy of mathematics lets us understand the nature of this most cerebral of subjects, and are brought to the limits of its power.C. P. Snow once said 'not knowing the second law of thermodynamics is like never having read a work by Shakespeare'. This is an extraordinary, exciting book that not only will make you literate in science but give you deep enjoyment on the way. 398 pp, Books<

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Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science

Author:	Atkins, Peter
Title:	Galileo's Finger: The Ten Great Ideas of Science
ISBN:	0198609418

An account of the central ideas of contemporary science, written in an accessible style, so even the most complicated ideas can be enjoyed by non-scientists. The hardback was a "Sunday Times" best-seller, selling over 15,000 copies in the first 6 months of publication.

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EAN (ISBN-13): 9780198609414
ISBN (ISBN-10): 0198609418
Hardcover
Paperback
Publishing year: 2004
Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
Weight: 0,277 kg
Language: eng/Englisch

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ISBN/EAN: 0198609418

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