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Titolo |
Springs of scientific creativity [[electronic resource] ] : essays on founders of modern science / / Rutherford Aris, H. Ted Davis, Roger H. Stuewer, editors |
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Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, c1983 |
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ISBN |
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0-8166-5527-8 |
1-4356-0622-1 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (354 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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ArisRutherford |
DavisH. Ted (Howard Ted) |
StuewerRoger H |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Physics - History |
Physicists |
Scientists |
Creative ability in science |
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Lingua di pubblicazione |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preface; Contents; Chapter 1. Galileo and Early Experimentation; Chapter 2. Newton's Development of the Principia; Chapter 3. The Origins and Consequences of Certain of J. P. Joule's Scientific Ideas; Chapter 4. Maxwell's Scientific Creativity; Chapter 5. The Scientific Style of Josiah Willard Gibbs; Chapter 6. Principal Scientific Contributions of John William Strutt, Third Baron Rayleigh; Chapter 7. Elmer Sperry and Adrian Leverkühn: A Comparison of Creative Styles; Chapter 8. Walther Nernst and the Application of Physics to Chemistry |
Chapter 9. Albert Einstein and the Creative Act: The Case of Special RelativityChapter 10. Erwin Schrödinger and the Descriptive Tradition; Chapter 11. Michael Polanyi's Creativity in Chemistry; Chapter 12. The Role of John von Neumann in the Computer Field; Contributors; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Springs of Scientific Creativity was first published in 1983. Mathematician Henri Poincaré was boarding a bus when he realized that the transformations of non-Euclidian geometry were just those he needed in his research on the theory of functions. He did not have to |
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