03362nam 22006015 450 991030344110332120200701050045.03-319-99777-710.1007/978-3-319-99777-3(CKB)4100000007205038(MiAaPQ)EBC5611927(DE-He213)978-3-319-99777-3(PPN)232966532(EXLCZ)99410000000720503820181206d2018 u| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Swings of Science From Complexity to Simplicity and Back /by Len Pismen1st ed. 2018.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Springer,2018.1 online resource (196 pages)3-319-99776-9 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?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.PhysicsStatistical physicsDynamical systemsComputational complexityChemistry, Physical and theoreticalPopular Science in Physicshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/Q29000Complex Systemshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P33000Complexityhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/T11022History and Philosophical Foundations of Physicshttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/P29000Theoretical and Computational Chemistryhttps://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/C25007Physics.Statistical physics.Dynamical systems.Computational complexity.Chemistry, Physical and theoretical.Popular Science in Physics.Complex Systems.Complexity.History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.Theoretical and Computational Chemistry.500Pismen Lenauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut835569BOOK9910303441103321The Swings of Science2541129UNINA