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Télécharger le livre : Particles, Fields and Forces
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Particles, Fields and Forces
Wouter Schmitz
How can fundamental particles exist as waves in the vacuum?How can such waves have particle properties such as inertia? What is behind the notion of “virtual” particles? Why and how do particles exert forces on one another? Not least: What are forces anyway? These are...

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Parution : 2019-04-23
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84,79 €
Télécharger le livre : Information—Consciousness—Reality
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Information—Consciousness—Reality
James B. Glattfelder
This open access book chronicles the rise of a new scientific paradigm offering novel insights into the age-old enigmas of existence. Over 300 years ago, the human mind discovered the machine code of reality: mathematics. By utilizing abstract thought systems, humans...

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Parution : 2019-04-10
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Télécharger le livre : Spirals and Vortices
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Spirals and Vortices
Stefan C. Müller , Kinko Tsuji
This richly illustrated book explores the fascinating and ubiquitous occurrence of spirals and vortices in human culture and in nature. Spiral forms have been used as elements in the arts for thousands of years, whereas their role in nature and science – from DNA and...

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Parution : 2019-04-04
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90,09 €
Télécharger le livre : What is Fundamental?
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What is Fundamental?
Anthony Aguirre , Brendan Foster , Zeeya Merali
Are there truly fundamental entities in nature? Or are the things that we regard as fundamental in our theories – for example space, time or the masses of elementary particles – merely awaiting a derivation from a new, yet to be discovered theory based on elements that...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-03-21
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79,49 €
Télécharger le livre : Stepping Stones to Synthetic Biology
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Stepping Stones to Synthetic Biology
Sergio Carrà
This book explores fascinating topics at the edge of life, guiding the reader all the way from the relation of life processes to the second law of thermodynamics and the abundance of complex organic compounds in the universe through to the latest advances in synthetic...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2018-10-10
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60,41 €
Télécharger le livre : Computer Simulations in Science and Engineering
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Computer Simulations in Science and Engineering
Juan Manuel Durán
This book addresses key conceptual issues relating to the modern scientific and engineering use of computer simulations. It analyses a broad set of questions, from the nature of computer simulations to their epistemological power, including the...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2018-09-20
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34,97 €
Télécharger le livre : Wandering Towards a Goal
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Wandering Towards a Goal
Anthony Aguirre , Brendan Foster , Zeeya Merali
This collection of prize-winning essays addresses the controversial question of how meaning and goals can emerge in a physical world governed by mathematical laws. What are the prerequisites for a system to have goals? What makes a physical process into a signal? Does...

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Parution : 2018-05-30
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60,41 €
Télécharger le livre : The Map and the Territory
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The Map and the Territory
Francisco Antonio Doria , Shyam Wuppuluri
This volume presents essays by pioneering thinkers including Tyler Burge, Gregory Chaitin, Daniel Dennett, Barry Mazur, Nicholas Humphrey, John Searle and Ian Stewart. Together they illuminate the Map/Territory Distinction that underlies at the foundation of the...

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Parution : 2018-02-13
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127,19 €
Télécharger le livre : The Essential Tension
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The Essential Tension
Sonya Bahar
'The Essential Tension' explores how agents that naturally compete come to act together as a group. The author argues that the controversial concept of multilevel selection is essential to biological evolution, a proposition set to stimulate new debate. The idea of one...

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Parution : 2017-11-28
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Télécharger le livre : The Computability of the World
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The Computability of the World
Bernd-Olaf Küppers , Paul Woolley
In this thought-provoking book Küppers, an internationally renowned physicist, philosopher and theoretical biologist, addresses a number of science's deepest questions: Can physics advance to the origin of all things and explain the unique phenomena of life, time and...

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Parution : 2017-11-28
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37,09 €
Télécharger le livre : The Seneca Effect
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The Seneca Effect
Ugo Bardi
The essence of this book can be found in a line written by the ancient Roman Stoic Philosopher Lucius Annaeus Seneca: "Fortune is of sluggish growth, but ruin is rapid". This sentence summarizes the features of the phenomenon that we call "collapse," which is...

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Parution : 2017-08-22
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90,09 €
Télécharger le livre : Chemical Complexity
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Chemical Complexity
Gerhard Ertl , Alexander S. Mikhailov
This book provides an outline of theoretical concepts and their experimental verification in studies of self-organization phenomena in chemical systems, as they emerged in the mid-20th century and have evolved since. Presenting essays on selected topics, it was prepared...

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Parution : 2017-08-10
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Télécharger le livre : The Technological Singularity
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The Technological Singularity
Stuart Armstrong , Victor Callaghan , James Miller , Roman Yampolskiy
This volume contains a selection of authoritative essays exploring the central questions raised by the conjectured technological singularity. In informed yet jargon-free contributions written by active research scientists, philosophers and sociologists, it goes...

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Parution : 2017-05-22
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63,59 €
Télécharger le livre : The Quantum World
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The Quantum World
Bernard D'espagnat , Hervé Zwirn
In this largely nontechnical book, eminent physicists and philosophers address the philosophical impact of recent advances in quantum physics. These are shown to shed new light on profound questions about realism, determinism, causality or locality. The participants...

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Parution : 2017-05-08
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63,59 €
Télécharger le livre : Information and Interaction
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Information and Interaction
Ian T. Durham , Dean Rickles
In this essay collection, leading physicists, philosophers, and historians attempt to fill the empty theoretical ground in the foundations of information and address the related question of the limits to our knowledge of the world.Over recent decades, our practical...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2016-12-09
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74,19 €
Télécharger le livre : Space, Time and the Limits of Human Understanding
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Space, Time and the Limits of Human Understanding
Giancarlo Ghirardi , Shyam Wuppuluri
In this compendium of essays, some of the world’s leading thinkers discuss their conceptions of space and time, as viewed through the lens of their own discipline. With an epilogue on the limits of human understanding, this volume hosts contributions from six or more...

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Parution : 2016-12-01
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79,49 €
Télécharger le livre : Quantum [Un]Speakables II
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Quantum [Un]Speakables II
Reinhold Bertlmann , Anton Zeilinger
This self-contained essay collection is published to commemorate half a century of Bell’s theorem. Like its much acclaimed predecessor “Quantum [Un]Speakables: From Bell to Quantum Information” (published 2002), it comprises essays by many of the worlds leading quantum...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2016-11-15
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95,39 €
Télécharger le livre : Ancestors, Territoriality, and Gods
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Ancestors, Territoriality, and Gods
Davina Grojnowski , Ina Wunn
This books sets out to explain how and why religion came into being. Today this question is as fascinating as ever, especially since religion has moved to the centre of socio-political relationships. In contrast to the current, but incomplete approaches...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2016-07-27
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81,61 €
Télécharger le livre : Energy, Complexity and Wealth Maximization
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Energy, Complexity and Wealth Maximization
Robert Ayres
This book is about the mechanisms of wealth creation, or what we like to think of as evolutionary "progress." The massive circular flow of goods and services between producers and consumers is not a perpetual motion machine; it has been dependent for the past 150 years...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2016-07-14
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95,39 €
Télécharger le livre : The Challenge of Chance
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The Challenge of Chance
Klaas Landsman , Ellen Van Wolde
This book presents a multidisciplinary perspective on chance, with contributions from distinguished researchers in the areas of biology, cognitive neuroscience, economics, genetics, general history, law, linguistics, logic, mathematical physics, statistics, theology and...

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Parution : 2016-06-09
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