04946oam 2200481 450 99641844570331620210420045507.03-030-55169-510.1007/978-3-030-55169-8(CKB)4100000011558814(DE-He213)978-3-030-55169-8(MiAaPQ)EBC6386026(PPN)252509919(EXLCZ)99410000001155881420210420d2020 uy 0engurnn|008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe ABC's of science /Giuseppe Mussardo1st ed. 2020.Cham, Switzerland :Springer,[2020]©20201 online resource (VIII, 248 p. 35 illus., 5 illus. in color.) 3-030-55168-7 Absolute zero. Some like it cold -- Boltzmann. The genius of disorder -- Chandra. The journey of a star -- Dimensions. The story behind the scenery -- Euler. A mine of golden formulas -- Faraday. A portrait of the scientist as a young man -- Germain. Sophie’s choice -- Harriott. Looking for Mr. Harry -- Ising. A magnetic modesty -- Jacobi. An elliptic thriller -- Kepler. Cannonballs and bee cells -- Landau. The Ten Commandments -- Maxwell. Fiat lux -- Numbers. Prime suspect -- Oppenheimer. An explosive plan -- Pauli. A strange couple -- Quantum. The garden of forking paths -- Rasetti. From atomic nuclei to Cambrian trilobites -- Spallanzani. The uncanny priest -- Touschek. The Lord of the Rings -- Ulam. The art of simulation -- Venus. The cruel goddess -- Weil. The Brahmin of Mathematics -- X-ray. Seeing the invisible -- Yang. Mirror of Deception -- Zwicky. Dark is the sky.Science, with its inherent tension between the known and the unknown, is an inexhaustible mine of great stories. Collected here are twenty-six among the most enchanting tales, one for each letter of the alphabet: the main characters are scientists of the highest calibre mostly of whom, however, are unknown to the general public. This book goes from A to Z. The letter A stands for Abel, the great Norwegian mathematician, here involved in an elliptic thriller about a fundamental theorem of mathematics, while the letter Z refers to Absolute Zero, the ultimate and lowest temperature limit, - 273,15 degrees Celsius, a value that is tremendously cooler than the most remote corner of the Universe: the race to reach this final outpost of coldness is not yet complete, but, similarly to the history books of polar explorations at the beginning of the 20th century, its pages record successes, failures, fierce rivalries and tragic desperations. In between the A and the Z, the other letters of the alphabet are similar to the various stages of a very fascinating journey along the paths of science, a journey in the company of a very unique set of characters as eccentric and peculiar as those in Ulysses by James Joyce: the French astronomer who lost everything, even his mind, to chase the transits of Venus; the caustic Austrian scientist who, perfectly at ease with both the laws of psychoanalysis and quantum mechanics, revealed the hidden secrets of dreams and the periodic table of chemical elements; the young Indian astrophysicist who was the first to understand how a star dies, suffering the ferocious opposition of his mentor for this discovery. Or the Hungarian physicist who struggled with his melancholy in the shadows of the desert of Los Alamos; or the French scholar who was forced to hide her femininity behind a false identity so as to publish fundamental theorems on prime numbers. And so on and so forth. Twenty-six stories, which reveal the most authentic atmosphere of science and the lives of some of its main players: each story can be read in quite a short period of time -- basically the time it takes to get on and off the train between two metro stations. Largely independent from one another, these twenty-six stories make the book a harmonious polyphony of several voices: the reader can invent his/her own very personal order for the chapters simply by ordering the sequence of letters differently. For an elementary law of Mathematics, this can give rise to an astronomically large number of possible books -- all the same, but - then again - all different. This book is therefore the ideal companion for an infinite number of real or metaphoric journeys.ScienceMiscellaneaScienceHistoryMiscellaneaScientistsMiscellaneaScienceScienceHistoryScientists500Mussardo G.502214MiAaPQMiAaPQUtOrBLWBOOK996418445703316Alfabeto della scienza. Da Abel a Zero assoluto 26 storie di ordinaria genialità1885372UNISA03614nam 22006852 450 991081607620332120160418161414.01-139-61065-11-107-23599-51-139-61251-41-139-61623-41-139-15084-71-107-25455-81-139-62553-51-299-27644-X1-139-62181-5(CKB)2560000000099586(EBL)1139590(OCoLC)828928461(SSID)ssj0000804358(PQKBManifestationID)11498361(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000804358(PQKBWorkID)10813008(PQKB)10981332(UkCbUP)CR9781139150842(Au-PeEL)EBL1139590(CaPaEBR)ebr10656312(CaONFJC)MIL458894(MiAaPQ)EBC1139590(EXLCZ)99256000000009958620141103d2012|||| uy| 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierCongress and the politics of problem solving /E. Scott Adler, John D. Wilkerson[electronic resource]Cambridge :Cambridge University Press,2012.1 online resource (xiv, 246 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).1-107-02318-1 1-107-67031-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.1. Congress and the politics of problem solving -- 2. Problem-focused voters and congressional accountability -- 3. Congressional approval and incumbent accountability -- 4. Problem-solving constraints and legislative institutions -- 5. Agenda scarcity, problem solving, and temporary legislation -- 6. Rethinking committee reform -- 7. Agenda setting in a problem-solving legislature -- 8. Problem solving and policy focal points -- 9. Problem solving and the dynamics of policy change -- 10. Problem solving and American politics.How do issues end up on the agenda? Why do lawmakers routinely invest in program oversight and broad policy development? What considerations drive legislative policy change? For many, Congress is an institution consumed by partisan bickering and gridlock. Yet the institution's long history of addressing significant societal problems - even in recent years - seems to contradict this view. Congress and the Politics of Problem Solving argues that the willingness of many voters to hold elected officials accountable for societal conditions is central to appreciating why Congress responds to problems despite the many reasons mustered for why it cannot. The authors show that, across decades of policy making, problem-solving motivations explain why bipartisanship is a common pattern of congressional behavior and offer the best explanation for legislative issue attention and policy change.Congress & the Politics of Problem SolvingDecision makingPolitical aspectsUnited StatesLegislationPolitical aspectsUnited StatesDecision makingPolitical aspectsLegislationPolitical aspects328.73POL040000bisacshAdler E. Scott1624646Wilkerson John D.1939-UkCbUPUkCbUPBOOK9910816076203321Congress and the politics of problem solving4118901UNINA