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Alternative beta strategies and hedge fund replication [[electronic resource] /] / Lars Jaeger ; with Jeffrey Pease
| Alternative beta strategies and hedge fund replication [[electronic resource] /] / Lars Jaeger ; with Jeffrey Pease |
| Autore | Jaeger Lars |
| Edizione | [1st edition] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (275 p.) |
| Disciplina |
332.64/524
332.64524 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | PeaseJeffrey |
| Soggetto topico | Hedge funds |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-119-20710-X
1-281-93956-0 9786611939564 0-470-72124-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Alternative Beta Strategies and Hedge Fund Replication; Contents; Preface; 1 Breaking the Black Box; 1.1 New popularity, old confusion; 1.2 The challenges of understanding hedge funds; 1.3 Leaving Alphaville; 1.4 The beauty of beta; 1.5 Alternative versus traditional beta; 1.6 The replication revolution; 1.7 Full disclosure; 2 What Are Hedge Funds, Where Did They Come From, and Where Are They Going?; 2.1 Characteristics of hedge funds; 2.2 Hedge funds as an asset class; 2.3 Taxonomy of hedge funds; 2.4 Myths, misperceptions, and realities about hedge funds; 2.5 A short history of hedge funds
2.6 The hedge fund industry today2.7 The future of hedge funds - opportunities and challenges; 3 The Individual Hedge Fund Strategies' Characteristics; 3.1 Equity Hedged - Long/Short Equity; 3.2 Equity Hedged - Equity Market Neutral; 3.3 Equity Hedged - Short Selling; 3.4 Relative Value - general; 3.5 Relative Value - Fixed Income Arbitrage; 3.6 Relative Value - Convertible Arbitrage; 3.7 Relative Value - Volatility Arbitrage; 3.8 Relative Value - Capital Structure Arbitrage; 3.9 Event Driven - general; 3.10 Event Driven - Merger Arbitrage; 3.11 Event Driven - Distressed Securities 3.12 Event Driven - Regulation D3.13 Opportunistic - Global Macro; 3.14 Managed Futures; 3.15 Managed Futures - Systematic; 3.16 Managed Futures - Discretionary; 3.17 Conclusion of the chapter; 4 Empirical Return and Risk Properties of Hedge Funds; 4.1 When the Sharpe ratio is not sharp enough; 4.2 Challenges of hedge fund performance measurement - the issue with hedge fund indices; 4.3 Sources of empirical data; 4.4 Risk and return properties of hedge fund strategies; 4.5 Comparison with equities and bonds; 4.6 Deviation from normal distribution; 4.7 Unconditional correlation properties 4.8 Conditional returns and correlations4.9 Hedge fund behavior in extreme market situations; 4.10 Benefits of hedge funds in a traditional portfolio; 4.11 Quantitative portfolio optimization for hedge funds revisited; 4.12 Summary of empirical properties; 4.13 Appendix: Data providers for past hedge fund performance; 5 The Drivers of Hedge Fund Returns; 5.1 Alpha versus beta; 5.2 The enigma of hedge fund returns; 5.3 Hedge fund returns: how much is alpha?; 5.4 The efficient market hypothesis; 5.5 Questioning the efficient market hypothesis: behavioral finance 5.6 The theoretical framework of modern finance: asset pricing models and the interpretations of alpha5.7 Systematic risk premia: the prevalence of beta in the global capital markets; 5.8 Risk premia and economic functions; 5.9 Market inefficiencies: the 'search for alpha'; 5.10 An illustration of the nature of hedge fund returns; 5.11 The decrease of alpha; 5.12 The beauty of alternative beta; 5.13 The future of hedge fund capacity; 5.14 Momentum and value; 5.15 Active strategies and option-like returns; 5.16 Why manager skill matters 5.17 Buyer beware: some final words of caution about hedge fund returns |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910144104203321 |
Jaeger Lars
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| Chichester, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, c2008 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Alternative beta strategies and hedge fund replication [[electronic resource] /] / Lars Jaeger ; with Jeffrey Pease
| Alternative beta strategies and hedge fund replication [[electronic resource] /] / Lars Jaeger ; with Jeffrey Pease |
| Autore | Jaeger Lars |
| Edizione | [1st edition] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (275 p.) |
| Disciplina |
332.64/524
332.64524 |
| Altri autori (Persone) | PeaseJeffrey |
| Soggetto topico | Hedge funds |
| ISBN |
1-119-20710-X
1-281-93956-0 9786611939564 0-470-72124-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Alternative Beta Strategies and Hedge Fund Replication; Contents; Preface; 1 Breaking the Black Box; 1.1 New popularity, old confusion; 1.2 The challenges of understanding hedge funds; 1.3 Leaving Alphaville; 1.4 The beauty of beta; 1.5 Alternative versus traditional beta; 1.6 The replication revolution; 1.7 Full disclosure; 2 What Are Hedge Funds, Where Did They Come From, and Where Are They Going?; 2.1 Characteristics of hedge funds; 2.2 Hedge funds as an asset class; 2.3 Taxonomy of hedge funds; 2.4 Myths, misperceptions, and realities about hedge funds; 2.5 A short history of hedge funds
2.6 The hedge fund industry today2.7 The future of hedge funds - opportunities and challenges; 3 The Individual Hedge Fund Strategies' Characteristics; 3.1 Equity Hedged - Long/Short Equity; 3.2 Equity Hedged - Equity Market Neutral; 3.3 Equity Hedged - Short Selling; 3.4 Relative Value - general; 3.5 Relative Value - Fixed Income Arbitrage; 3.6 Relative Value - Convertible Arbitrage; 3.7 Relative Value - Volatility Arbitrage; 3.8 Relative Value - Capital Structure Arbitrage; 3.9 Event Driven - general; 3.10 Event Driven - Merger Arbitrage; 3.11 Event Driven - Distressed Securities 3.12 Event Driven - Regulation D3.13 Opportunistic - Global Macro; 3.14 Managed Futures; 3.15 Managed Futures - Systematic; 3.16 Managed Futures - Discretionary; 3.17 Conclusion of the chapter; 4 Empirical Return and Risk Properties of Hedge Funds; 4.1 When the Sharpe ratio is not sharp enough; 4.2 Challenges of hedge fund performance measurement - the issue with hedge fund indices; 4.3 Sources of empirical data; 4.4 Risk and return properties of hedge fund strategies; 4.5 Comparison with equities and bonds; 4.6 Deviation from normal distribution; 4.7 Unconditional correlation properties 4.8 Conditional returns and correlations4.9 Hedge fund behavior in extreme market situations; 4.10 Benefits of hedge funds in a traditional portfolio; 4.11 Quantitative portfolio optimization for hedge funds revisited; 4.12 Summary of empirical properties; 4.13 Appendix: Data providers for past hedge fund performance; 5 The Drivers of Hedge Fund Returns; 5.1 Alpha versus beta; 5.2 The enigma of hedge fund returns; 5.3 Hedge fund returns: how much is alpha?; 5.4 The efficient market hypothesis; 5.5 Questioning the efficient market hypothesis: behavioral finance 5.6 The theoretical framework of modern finance: asset pricing models and the interpretations of alpha5.7 Systematic risk premia: the prevalence of beta in the global capital markets; 5.8 Risk premia and economic functions; 5.9 Market inefficiencies: the 'search for alpha'; 5.10 An illustration of the nature of hedge fund returns; 5.11 The decrease of alpha; 5.12 The beauty of alternative beta; 5.13 The future of hedge fund capacity; 5.14 Momentum and value; 5.15 Active strategies and option-like returns; 5.16 Why manager skill matters 5.17 Buyer beware: some final words of caution about hedge fund returns |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910830899103321 |
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Jaeger Lars
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| Chichester, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, c2008 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Alternative beta strategies and hedge fund replication / / Lars Jaeger ; with Jeffrey Pease
| Alternative beta strategies and hedge fund replication / / Lars Jaeger ; with Jeffrey Pease |
| Autore | Jaeger Lars |
| Edizione | [1st edition] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Chichester, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (275 p.) |
| Disciplina | 332.64/524 |
| Soggetto topico | Hedge funds |
| ISBN |
1-119-20710-X
1-281-93956-0 9786611939564 0-470-72124-3 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Alternative Beta Strategies and Hedge Fund Replication; Contents; Preface; 1 Breaking the Black Box; 1.1 New popularity, old confusion; 1.2 The challenges of understanding hedge funds; 1.3 Leaving Alphaville; 1.4 The beauty of beta; 1.5 Alternative versus traditional beta; 1.6 The replication revolution; 1.7 Full disclosure; 2 What Are Hedge Funds, Where Did They Come From, and Where Are They Going?; 2.1 Characteristics of hedge funds; 2.2 Hedge funds as an asset class; 2.3 Taxonomy of hedge funds; 2.4 Myths, misperceptions, and realities about hedge funds; 2.5 A short history of hedge funds
2.6 The hedge fund industry today2.7 The future of hedge funds - opportunities and challenges; 3 The Individual Hedge Fund Strategies' Characteristics; 3.1 Equity Hedged - Long/Short Equity; 3.2 Equity Hedged - Equity Market Neutral; 3.3 Equity Hedged - Short Selling; 3.4 Relative Value - general; 3.5 Relative Value - Fixed Income Arbitrage; 3.6 Relative Value - Convertible Arbitrage; 3.7 Relative Value - Volatility Arbitrage; 3.8 Relative Value - Capital Structure Arbitrage; 3.9 Event Driven - general; 3.10 Event Driven - Merger Arbitrage; 3.11 Event Driven - Distressed Securities 3.12 Event Driven - Regulation D3.13 Opportunistic - Global Macro; 3.14 Managed Futures; 3.15 Managed Futures - Systematic; 3.16 Managed Futures - Discretionary; 3.17 Conclusion of the chapter; 4 Empirical Return and Risk Properties of Hedge Funds; 4.1 When the Sharpe ratio is not sharp enough; 4.2 Challenges of hedge fund performance measurement - the issue with hedge fund indices; 4.3 Sources of empirical data; 4.4 Risk and return properties of hedge fund strategies; 4.5 Comparison with equities and bonds; 4.6 Deviation from normal distribution; 4.7 Unconditional correlation properties 4.8 Conditional returns and correlations4.9 Hedge fund behavior in extreme market situations; 4.10 Benefits of hedge funds in a traditional portfolio; 4.11 Quantitative portfolio optimization for hedge funds revisited; 4.12 Summary of empirical properties; 4.13 Appendix: Data providers for past hedge fund performance; 5 The Drivers of Hedge Fund Returns; 5.1 Alpha versus beta; 5.2 The enigma of hedge fund returns; 5.3 Hedge fund returns: how much is alpha?; 5.4 The efficient market hypothesis; 5.5 Questioning the efficient market hypothesis: behavioral finance 5.6 The theoretical framework of modern finance: asset pricing models and the interpretations of alpha5.7 Systematic risk premia: the prevalence of beta in the global capital markets; 5.8 Risk premia and economic functions; 5.9 Market inefficiencies: the 'search for alpha'; 5.10 An illustration of the nature of hedge fund returns; 5.11 The decrease of alpha; 5.12 The beauty of alternative beta; 5.13 The future of hedge fund capacity; 5.14 Momentum and value; 5.15 Active strategies and option-like returns; 5.16 Why manager skill matters 5.17 Buyer beware: some final words of caution about hedge fund returns |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910877319603321 |
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Jaeger Lars
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| Chichester, England ; ; Hoboken, NJ, : Wiley, c2008 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The second quantum revolution : from entanglement to quantum computing and other super-technologies / / by Lars Jaeger
| The second quantum revolution : from entanglement to quantum computing and other super-technologies / / by Lars Jaeger |
| Autore | Jaeger Lars |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2018.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Copernicus, , 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XVIII, 339 p. 2 illus.) |
| Disciplina | 530 |
| Soggetto topico |
Physics
Quantum computers Spintronics Quantum physics Popular Science in Physics Quantum Information Technology, Spintronics Quantum Physics |
| ISBN | 3-319-98824-7 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Prologue: The white rabbit -- Part 1: Quantum 2.0 – The second technological revolution arising from the quantum world: Mighty power – How a theory of the microcosm changed our world.-There‘s plenty of room at the bottom – A new generation of quantum technologies -- Technology on the smallest scales – The possibilities of nanotechnology -- Incredibly fast – From digital to the quantum computer -- Part 2: Quantum Worlds – The bizarre in the very small: Contradictory atoms – Philosophical problems with the smallest building blocks of nature -- Natura facit saltus – On quantum jumps and particles being made out of nothing -- Tertium datur – Wave and particles at the same time -- As well as neither/-nor – Superposition: how things can be here and there at the same time -- Loss of identity – The New Reality Concept of Quantum Physics and its Consequences -- Part 3: From Quantum Field Theories to a "Theory of Everything" – All matter dissolves: Negative energies and the electron spin – Combining the theory of relativity to produce a new quantum theory -- Quantum field theories – All matter dissolves -- Infinity minus infinity gives something finite – How physicists learnt to deal with infinitely large values in the infinitely small -- More and more particles – From the particle zoo to the standard model of elementary particle physics -- Einstein does not fit – The fundamental problem in physics today -- Part 4: Cutting across philosophical, aesthetic, and spiritual, frames of thought: The Path towards Substancelessness – Breaking with 2,600 years of philosophical thought -- A New Understanding of Truth – How quantum physics made absolute reality disappear, and with it absolute truth -- The eternal interplay – Surprising overlaps between quantum physics and Buddhism -- Symmetries – Beauty in the House of Physics -- Quantum Consciousness and the Tao of Physics - On quantum holism, quantum healing, and other quantum nonsense -- Quantum physics and faith– Explaining the inexplicable -- Part 5: Entanglement – getting to the crux of the matter: The destinies of cats – The quantum physical measurement problem -- Wigner´s Friend – Quantum physics and consciousness -- EPR and Hidden Variables – The debate about spooky action at a distance -- The experimental resolution of the Bohr- Einstein debate – How entangled particles made their way from theory into practice -- The Age of Entanglement – From spooks to a new quantum revolution -- Schrödinger‘s cat is alive – The path back to classical physics -- Part 6: The future – Where are we going?: Quantum Revolution 2.0 – When nanobots and quantum computers become part of our everyday lives. . |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910309663103321 |
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Jaeger Lars
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| Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Copernicus, , 2018 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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The stumbling progress of 20th century science : how crises and great minds have shaped our modern world / / Lars Jaeger
| The stumbling progress of 20th century science : how crises and great minds have shaped our modern world / / Lars Jaeger |
| Autore | Jaeger Lars |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (254 pages) |
| Disciplina | 509 |
| Soggetto topico |
Discoveries in science - History - 20th century
Science - History - 20th century |
| ISBN | 3-031-09618-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Prologue -- Contents -- Part I The Great Confusion -- 1 Newton's World Formula that Wasn't One-How the Speed of Light Shook Up Classical Physics -- The Last Magician -- Blank Spots on the Map of Science -- Steam Flasks and Stills -- The Twitching of Dead Frogs -- Magnetic Forces and Magical Thinking -- Faraday: From Magic to Science -- The Last Riddle -- Small Problems and Big Contradictions -- 2 The Battle for the Atom-From Boltzmann to Einstein-How Chance Broke into the Well-Ordered World of Physics -- Locomotives and Hot Water Bottles -- Chance Enters the Stage of Physics -- A Gravestone at the Vienna Central Cemetery -- Planck's Act of Desperation -- Einstein's Solution and Other Fundamental Contradictions -- Einstein's Second Master Stroke -- The Third Revolution from the Bern Patent Office -- Wanderer Between Two Worlds -- The Contours of the Atom-Further Contradictions -- 3 Mathematics Becomes Paradoxical-Georg Cantor and the Insurmountable Contradictions of the Infinite -- The Forbidden Door -- More Major Challenges -- Rumbling Wheels -- The Lies of the Cretans and the Truth About Infinities -- New Construction Instead of Renovation -- The Big Bang -- Is It Worth the Effort? -- 4 Darwin's Hesitation and Mendel's Diligence-Life as a Plaything of Atomic Elements -- Turtles and Mocking birds -- Chance and Necessity -- Darwin's Struggle for Existence -- Man Becomes Part of the Animal Kingdom -- Darwin and Boltzmann -- The Atoms of Life -- Approach to the Gene -- New Theories Without Answers -- 5 The Ground Slips from Under Our Feet-The Collapse of the Classical Sciences -- A Short Excursion into Philosophy -- The Fundamental Limits of Scientific Knowledge -- Ignorabimus in Mathematics -- No Longer Master in One's Own House -- Early Philosophical Crises: Nihilism and Existentialism -- Total War.
From International Cooperation to National Polemics -- Whatever Happened to the Quest for Truth? -- Science in the Soviet Union -- Part II Geniuses Create a New World -- 6 The New Boys' Physics-A New Generation Discovers the Abstract World of Quanta -- Ups and Downs -- With Hay Fever to Helgoland -- Chance Shows up Again -- Dispute Among Physicists -- A Farewell to Classical Certainty -- The Confounded Double-Slit Experiment -- Dirac's Stroke of Genius -- 7 Einstein and Schrödinger Versus Bohr and Heisenberg-How Philosophy Was Displaced by Mathematics -- A Vivid Explanation from Denmark -- An Unreliable World -- Quantum Particles Without Identity -- The Fate of a Cat Becomes the Fate of Quantum Theory -- A New Addition to the Vocabulary of Philosophers and Physicists -- Einstein Provides a Solution for Himself -- Mathematics Becomes Substance -- The Current State of Philosophy -- 8 The Final Dissolution of All Matter-The Shift from German to American Physics -- The Electromagnetic Field is Quantised -- The Photon Drops Its Mask -- Fluctuations and More Permanent Emanations of Energy -- The Disappearance of Matter -- The New American Quantum World -- Particle Zoo Without Theory -- 9 Mathematics Becomes a Superpower-How Emmy Noether, John Von Neumann, and Alan Turing Changed the World -- The Unknown Universal Genius of the Twentieth Century -- A Celebrated Bon Vivant -- The Architect of the Red Button -- The Computer Sees the Light of day -- Alan Turing-The Birth of the Digital Age -- The Mathematicians' War -- Emmy Noether Finds a Compass for the Abstract World -- Cinderella at the Mathematical Institute -- 10 The Architecture of Life is Decoded-How the "Science Clowns" Watson and Crick Ended a Decades-Long Quest -- The Birth of a New Science -- Breakthrough in the Fly Lab -- The Unknown Compound in the Centrifuge -- The Molecule of Life. The Discovery of the Double Helix -- From DNA to Proteins -- 11 The Pyrrhic Victory of Big Science-How Science Was Domesticated by the Military and Industry -- Penicillin-The Miracle Drug of Modern Medicine -- Quantum Effects in Everyday Life -- A Strong Team: Quantum Theory, Logic, and Computer Science -- In the Grip of the Military and Industry -- 12 What is a Human Being?-Our Mind as a Scientifically Ascertainable Entity -- A Look into the Distant Past -- The Neanderthal in US -- An Organ Steps Out of the Shadows -- A New View of Feeling and Thinking -- Thinking About Thinking -- At the Limits of the Explainable -- Step by Step -- The Self-Model in the World Model -- Epilogue: The Fifth Virtue of Science -- References -- Index. |
| Record Nr. | UNISA-996490349103316 |
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Jaeger Lars
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| Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. di Salerno | ||
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The stumbling progress of 20th century science : how crises and great minds have shaped our modern world / / Lars Jaeger
| The stumbling progress of 20th century science : how crises and great minds have shaped our modern world / / Lars Jaeger |
| Autore | Jaeger Lars |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (254 pages) |
| Disciplina | 509 |
| Soggetto topico |
Discoveries in science - History - 20th century
Science - History - 20th century |
| ISBN | 3-031-09618-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Prologue -- Contents -- Part I The Great Confusion -- 1 Newton's World Formula that Wasn't One-How the Speed of Light Shook Up Classical Physics -- The Last Magician -- Blank Spots on the Map of Science -- Steam Flasks and Stills -- The Twitching of Dead Frogs -- Magnetic Forces and Magical Thinking -- Faraday: From Magic to Science -- The Last Riddle -- Small Problems and Big Contradictions -- 2 The Battle for the Atom-From Boltzmann to Einstein-How Chance Broke into the Well-Ordered World of Physics -- Locomotives and Hot Water Bottles -- Chance Enters the Stage of Physics -- A Gravestone at the Vienna Central Cemetery -- Planck's Act of Desperation -- Einstein's Solution and Other Fundamental Contradictions -- Einstein's Second Master Stroke -- The Third Revolution from the Bern Patent Office -- Wanderer Between Two Worlds -- The Contours of the Atom-Further Contradictions -- 3 Mathematics Becomes Paradoxical-Georg Cantor and the Insurmountable Contradictions of the Infinite -- The Forbidden Door -- More Major Challenges -- Rumbling Wheels -- The Lies of the Cretans and the Truth About Infinities -- New Construction Instead of Renovation -- The Big Bang -- Is It Worth the Effort? -- 4 Darwin's Hesitation and Mendel's Diligence-Life as a Plaything of Atomic Elements -- Turtles and Mocking birds -- Chance and Necessity -- Darwin's Struggle for Existence -- Man Becomes Part of the Animal Kingdom -- Darwin and Boltzmann -- The Atoms of Life -- Approach to the Gene -- New Theories Without Answers -- 5 The Ground Slips from Under Our Feet-The Collapse of the Classical Sciences -- A Short Excursion into Philosophy -- The Fundamental Limits of Scientific Knowledge -- Ignorabimus in Mathematics -- No Longer Master in One's Own House -- Early Philosophical Crises: Nihilism and Existentialism -- Total War.
From International Cooperation to National Polemics -- Whatever Happened to the Quest for Truth? -- Science in the Soviet Union -- Part II Geniuses Create a New World -- 6 The New Boys' Physics-A New Generation Discovers the Abstract World of Quanta -- Ups and Downs -- With Hay Fever to Helgoland -- Chance Shows up Again -- Dispute Among Physicists -- A Farewell to Classical Certainty -- The Confounded Double-Slit Experiment -- Dirac's Stroke of Genius -- 7 Einstein and Schrödinger Versus Bohr and Heisenberg-How Philosophy Was Displaced by Mathematics -- A Vivid Explanation from Denmark -- An Unreliable World -- Quantum Particles Without Identity -- The Fate of a Cat Becomes the Fate of Quantum Theory -- A New Addition to the Vocabulary of Philosophers and Physicists -- Einstein Provides a Solution for Himself -- Mathematics Becomes Substance -- The Current State of Philosophy -- 8 The Final Dissolution of All Matter-The Shift from German to American Physics -- The Electromagnetic Field is Quantised -- The Photon Drops Its Mask -- Fluctuations and More Permanent Emanations of Energy -- The Disappearance of Matter -- The New American Quantum World -- Particle Zoo Without Theory -- 9 Mathematics Becomes a Superpower-How Emmy Noether, John Von Neumann, and Alan Turing Changed the World -- The Unknown Universal Genius of the Twentieth Century -- A Celebrated Bon Vivant -- The Architect of the Red Button -- The Computer Sees the Light of day -- Alan Turing-The Birth of the Digital Age -- The Mathematicians' War -- Emmy Noether Finds a Compass for the Abstract World -- Cinderella at the Mathematical Institute -- 10 The Architecture of Life is Decoded-How the "Science Clowns" Watson and Crick Ended a Decades-Long Quest -- The Birth of a New Science -- Breakthrough in the Fly Lab -- The Unknown Compound in the Centrifuge -- The Molecule of Life. The Discovery of the Double Helix -- From DNA to Proteins -- 11 The Pyrrhic Victory of Big Science-How Science Was Domesticated by the Military and Industry -- Penicillin-The Miracle Drug of Modern Medicine -- Quantum Effects in Everyday Life -- A Strong Team: Quantum Theory, Logic, and Computer Science -- In the Grip of the Military and Industry -- 12 What is a Human Being?-Our Mind as a Scientifically Ascertainable Entity -- A Look into the Distant Past -- The Neanderthal in US -- An Organ Steps Out of the Shadows -- A New View of Feeling and Thinking -- Thinking About Thinking -- At the Limits of the Explainable -- Step by Step -- The Self-Model in the World Model -- Epilogue: The Fifth Virtue of Science -- References -- Index. |
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Jaeger Lars
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| Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2022] | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Ways out of the climate catastrophe : ingredients for a sustainable energy and climate policy / / Lars Jaeger
| Ways out of the climate catastrophe : ingredients for a sustainable energy and climate policy / / Lars Jaeger |
| Autore | Jaeger Lars |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2021] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (257 pages) |
| Disciplina | 363.73874526 |
| Soggetto topico | Climatic changes - Government policy |
| ISBN |
9783030851323
303085132X 3-030-85132-X 9783030851316 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Thanks to -- Contents -- Part I Energy -- 1 From Aristotle to Nuclear Fusion: The Long Road to Understanding What Energy Actually Is -- 1.1 In the Beginning Was the Force -- 1.2 The Impulse and the Ars Viva -- 1.3 The Great Energy Confusion -- 1.4 Steam Engines as a Driver for Basic Research -- 1.5 The Limits of Energy Conversion -- 1.6 Maximum Energy in the Smallest Space -- 1.7 Energy and Life -- 1.8 How We Measure Energy -- 1.9 Energy on a Global Scale -- Annex 1: Energy in Various Guises -- References -- 2 The Foundation of Civilisation -- 2.1 Energy Cycle on Our Own Behalf -- 2.2 Fire, Wind, and Water -- 2.3 The Demand for Energy Keeps Growing -- 2.4 No Oil from the Socket -- 2.5 The Biggest Lever -- 2.6 The Future of Energy, the Energy of the Future -- 2.7 Moving Away from Fossil Fuels -- 3 The Comeback of Sustainable Energy: Why Fossil Energy Sources Are Only a Footnote in Human History -- 3.1 In the Beginning There Was Fire -- 3.2 The Material of the First Industrialisation -- 3.3 Entry into the Fossil Age -- 3.4 Electricity for All -- 3.5 The Black Gold -- 3.6 The End of the Golden Age of Oil -- 3.7 Rise and Fall of Nuclear Energy -- 3.8 Sustainable Energy Sources Are Returning -- 4 Electricity Wars and Smart Grids: The Key Role of Electricity Storage and Transport -- 4.1 The Issue with the Current -- 4.2 The Saliva of Mr. Volta -- 4.3 The Search for the Best Combination -- 4.4 An Old War Technology in a New Guise -- 4.5 The Coal of the Future -- 4.6 The Electricity War Between Edison and Westinghouse -- 4.7 The Return of the Direct Current -- 4.8 Juggling in Smart Grids -- References -- Part II Climate -- 5 A Brief History of the Climate: What Makes Current Global Warming so Special -- 5.1 Hot Plates and Black Stones -- 5.2 The Earth in Balance -- 5.3 The Natural and the Unnatural Greenhouse Effect.
5.4 The Changing Fever of the Earth -- 5.5 Temporary Malfunctions -- 5.6 A Steamroller that Picks Up Speed -- 6 The Beat of the butterfly's Wings: How Climate Research and Climate Models Work -- 6.1 Falling Leaves in Autumn -- 6.2 Tamed Chaos -- 6.3 Caught Red-Handed -- Reference -- 7 Risk Ethics and Integrity: Why the Competence of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Forces Us to Act -- 7.1 Global Issues, Global Research -- 7.2 Future Scenarios for the Climate and Our Society -- 7.3 The Influence of Politics -- 7.4 What We Know ... -- 7.5 Too Careful or Not Careful Enough? -- 7.6 Unpredictable Risks -- 7.7 Integrity -- References -- 8 Climate Deniers, Climate Hysterics, and Nimbys: In the Self-service Shop of Arguments -- 8.1 1st Group: The Experts-Controversies Lead to Insight -- 8.2 2nd Group: Conservative Believers-The Belief in Higher Powers Than Science -- 8.3 3rd Group: Ideologists-The Fatal Stubbornness of Populists -- 8.4 4th Group: Lobbyists-The Great Fear of Reorientation -- 8.5 5th Group: Nimbys-Let Others Lead the Fight -- 8.6 Argumentation Aids for the Righteous -- Part III Power -- 9 The Path of Renewable Electricity: From Niche Products to the High-Tech Innovations of the Future -- 9.1 Solar Power-Treadmills for Electrons -- 9.2 Photovoltaics-By No Means at the End of Its Possibilities -- 9.3 Wind Power-Electricity from the Air -- 9.4 Hydropower-Old Wine in New Wineskins -- 9.5 Geothermal Energy-From Deep Down in the Earth -- 9.6 Biomass-Carved from New Wood -- 10 The Jokers in the Game: How Game Changers Could Change Everything -- 10.1 A Joker for Energy Production: The Long Hope for Nuclear Fusion -- 10.2 A Joker for Energy Storage: Perfect Batteries Thanks to Spider Blood and Nano Capacitors -- 10.3 A Joker for Energy Consumption: Decentralised Production via 3D Printing. 10.4 The Meta-Joker: Artificial Intelligence as a Solution for Complex Tasks -- References -- 11 Yes, We Can! The Marketability of Renewable Energies -- 11.1 Follow the Money! -- 11.2 Subsidies Become Investments -- 11.3 The Fairy Tale of the Unaffordability of Renewable Energies -- 11.4 Solar Energy -- 11.5 Wind Energy -- 11.6 Hydropower -- 11.7 Geothermal Energy -- 11.8 Biomass -- 11.9 The Cost Gap Is Widening -- Reference -- 12 A Strange Expression, But Comprehensible: The Second Half in the Match Between a Carbon-Based and a Carbon-Free Power Supply -- 12.1 The Third Construction Site -- 12.2 An Unembellished Cost Accounting -- 12.3 Change Through Trade -- 12.4 The Last Hole in the Belt -- Reference -- Part IV Society -- 13 The Economy of the Future: From the Struggle for Resources to an Economy of Sharing -- 13.1 A Cynical Priest and the Club of Rome -- 13.2 The Old Growth Model of Capitalism -- 13.3 When the Balance Sheet is Overstretched ... -- 13.4 The New Consumption Model of Decentralisation -- 13.5 When Greed No Longer Pays -- 13.6 Cradle to Cradle: From Economy to Ecology -- References -- 14 The Unfortunate Primacy of Business: Why Politics Must Set Limits to Markets -- 14.1 Sand in the Gears -- 14.2 The Soul Sellers of Doubt -- 14.3 The Wave Spills Over into Europe -- 14.4 The Taming of Black Sheep -- 14.5 The Wind is Turning on the Oil Market -- References -- 15 In the Interests of All Mankind: The Long Road from National Energy Concepts to Global Policy -- 15.1 European Energy Policy-Between Insight and Constraints -- 15.2 Chinese Energy Policy-In China's Own Interest -- 15.3 US Energy Policy-Long Dominated by Irrationality and Special Interests -- 15.4 Developing Countries-Pioneers Against Their Will -- 15.5 A Brief History of Global Climate Policy -- Reference -- 16 A Construction Site for All: The Victory of Climate Ethics. 16.1 Who can Help Shaping the Energy Transformation -- 16.2 Consumption with a Pampering Factor -- 16.3 Changes in our Everyday Life -- Reference -- What is Needed Concretely -- Epilogue. |
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Where Is Science Leading Us? : And What Can We Do to Steer It?
| Where Is Science Leading Us? : And What Can We Do to Steer It? |
| Autore | Jaeger Lars |
| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham : , : Springer International Publishing AG, , 2024 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (341 pages) |
| Altri autori (Persone) | DacorognaMichel |
| ISBN | 3-031-47138-5 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Intro -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The Takeover of Scientific Leadership -- Geniuses Create a New World -- The Shift of the Scientific Gravity Centre from Europe to the USA -- Philosophical Implications of Quantum Theory - The Concept of Reality Called into Question -- Highly Controversial Philosophical Discussions Among Physicists in the 1930s -- How Europe and Philosophy Both Lost Their Dominance in Science -- Pragmatism Now Governing Science - With Consequences -- Philosophy for Quantum Physics - Still Essential Today -- Scientific Revolutions Beyond Physics -- 3 Publicly Backed Science in Competition with Private Companies -- The Transition from Fundamental Scientific Research to Technological Applications -- Relationship of Sciences and Technological Applications Today -- Who Finances Modern Science? -- How Do We Judge the Quality of Scientific Papers Today? -- Where Should We Go in Science? -- Three Past Examples from Fundamental Research to Revolutionary Technology - Penicillin, PCR and the Atomic Bomb -- Penicillin -- Atomic Bomb -- Polymerase Chain Reaction PCR -- The Most Important Technological Efforts Today - And Those in the Future -- 4 Philosophy in Science Is Over -- The Tradition of Science Interacting with Philosophy -- The Breakdown of Absolute Knowledge in Science Is a Profound Philosophical Challenge -- Does Philosophy Still Have an Importance for Science? -- Open Questions in Science Today Are as Well Open Philosophical Questions -- Why the Influence of Philosophy into Science, Besides All Its Needs, Is Still so Low Today -- A Key Mathematician Steps Out of Science Protesting Against Its Nature of Leaving Out Important Topics -- A Good Example for an Interaction of Philosophy and Science: Research on the Nature of the Human Ego-Consciousness -- More and More Important: The Relationship Between Science and Ethics.
5 Promising and Scary Developments in Future Technologies -- The Future Technological Application Changing the World and Human Beings -- Artificial Intelligence - Improving or Controlling Our Lives? -- Quantum Computers - Millions of Times Faster Computation or Just a Dream by Physicists? -- CO2-Neutrality - Can We Create Enough Alternative Energies in the Next Few Years to Prevent a Climate Catastrophe -- Nuclear Fusion - The Solution of Our Energy Problems or Just a Topic of a Century of Dreaming? -- Genetics - The Victory Over Cancer or Manipulation of Mankind? -- Internet of Things - New Industrial Technologies and Smart Fabrications or a Full Invasion of Privacy? -- Neuro-Enhancements - Improving Our Thinking and Acting or Move Away From Today's Reality? -- Understanding Our Minds Through VR-Technologies - Finding Our Ego Or Is It Unfindable for Scientists? -- Digital Algorithms and Big Data - New Profiles for Our Lives or Controlling Humans' Thinking and Acting? -- Blockchain Technology - Is It a Groundbreaking Innovation or Just a Passing Trend? -- Cybersecurity - Is It a Consistently Significant Concern or Merely an Occasional Problem? -- Nanotechnology - Creation of Things from "Nothing" or Just a Dream? -- Stem Cells - Using Cells That Can Do Everything. Also for Our Entire Body and Mind? -- Biotechnology - From Frogs for Pharmacists to Nano-Robots in Our Bodies, a Medical Dream or Future Reality? -- New Food Technologies - How We Will Provide Food to 10 Billion People or Just a Science Dream Story? -- Synthetic Life- When Humans Play God: Part I -- Life Prolongation - When Humans Play God: Part II -- Are These All the Technologies that Will Shape Our Future? -- 6 Physics from 1960 to Today -- The New Quantum World - How to Deal With An Uncountable Number of New Particles -- A First Theory Integrating Various Particles and the Strong Force. The Standard Model of Elementary Particles -- "Chaos" Theory and Emergence Patterns in Today's Physics -- Today's Situation in the Macrocosm - Will We Soon Get Answers to the Fundamental Questions About the Universe? -- How Realistic Is a Unifying Theory for Physics? -- Research in Physics Today -- Philosophy of Physics Today -- 7 Computers, Nanotechnology, Internet and Many Other Technologies -- What New Technologies Physics Has Brought Us: A Tremendous Amount of Life Improvements and a Few Important Open Questions -- Nuclear Technologies -- Electronics, Digital Technologies and the Miniaturisation of Processors -- Digital Revolution (also Known as the "Third Industrial Revolution" or "Microelectronic Revolution") -- Lasers -- Mobile Phones -- Internet -- Superconductivity and Superfluidity -- Satellites in and Beyond the Atmosphere -- New Materials That Do Not Exist in Nature -- Solid-State Physics -- Quantum Computer -- Nano Particles and Nanotechnologies -- Where Are We Going? -- 8 Biology from 1953 to 2023: Major Breakthroughs and Their Ethical Issues -- The Second Foundation of Biology: Genetics -- First Steps in "Genetic Engineering" -- The Development of Life on Earth -- The Origin of Life -- Genetics Since the 1970s -- Revolution of Genetics in 2012 - As Amazing as Scary New Technologies -- Synthetic Life -- Life Prolongation - When Humans Want to Play God II -- Ethics for Today's Biology -- Humans as a Bull in a China Shop -- 9 Brain Research Since the 1990s -- History of Brain Research Until 1990s - A Rather Short Story Compared with What Happened Thereafter -- Early Brain Research as of 1990 - First Insights and Many Problems Left -- Research About Our Consciousness - How the Brain Generates Our Mind -- About Our ("Ego-")consciousness - Fundamental Open Problems -- More Methods and Results of Research on Our Consciousness. And Yes, It Does Change - The Plasticity of Our Brain -- Key Technologies - "Improving" Our Minds with Neuro-Enhancements -- More Philosophical Questions -- Our Inner Model as Virtual Reality -- Our Mind and Self-Consciousness - More Empirical Studies, Dramatic Applied Technologies and - yet Again - Ethical Issues -- Summary: Scientific Knowledge, Philosophical and Ethical Questions, and Remaining Openness -- New Questions on Social Relationships -- What is a Human Being and What Should a Human Being Be? -- 10 Artificial Intelligence from Its Origins Via Today to the Future -- History of Artificial Intelligence -- History of Computers and Computer Science -- Where AI Stands Today -- The Current Interaction of AI and Our Brain - Does that Eventually Lead to Superhuman Intelligence? -- How AI Shapes Our Society -- Who Should Deal with the Decline of Our Privacy? -- The Development of Big Data -- Artificial Intelligence's Possible Consciousness of (Strong) AI -- 11 The Path Towards Modern Mathematics -- Mathematics Before 1920 -- The Crisis in Mathematics -- The Revolution -- The Path Towards Modern Mathematics - More and More Abstraction -- Dealing with Concrete Problems Through Numerical Methods -- Mathematics Today and in the Future -- 12 Astronomical Research -- A (Very) Brief History of Astronomy Prior to 1960 -- A Rather Recent Revolution in Observing the Universe -- New Discoveries in the Last 25 Years -- Cosmology - The Origin of the Universe -- Cosmology - How the Universe is Developing -- The Current Unified Theory of the Universe - Many Open Questions -- 13 The Future of Sciences/Technologies? -- More of the Promising and Challenging Areas in Science and Technology -- CO2-Neutrality -- Nuclear Fusion -- Food Technology -- Synthetic Life and Life Prolongation -- Historical Issues. "We Go Under" Versus "Yes, We Can" - Dystopian Pessimism Versus Utopian Optimism -- Social Drivers -- Us -- 14 The Myth of the Optimally Functional Invisible Hand -- The Legend of an Invisible Hand -- Who is Likely to Best Govern the Scientific Future? - I. The Side Actors: Cultural Figures, Journalists or the Church? -- Who is Likely to Best Govern the Scientific Future? - II. The - Democratically Elected - Government? -- Who is Likely to Best Govern the Scientific Future? - III. The Scientists Themselves? -- Who is Likely to Best Govern the Scientific Future? - IV. All of Us! -- 15 Science, Technology and Spirituality -- How New Technologies Shape Up the Economy - In the Right Direction? -- More Openness, Less Dogmatism -- Rationally Irrational -- How Can Broad Knowledge About Science and Technologies and Its Rational and Democratic Assessments Make the World a Safer and Better Place -- A New Way of Approaching "Spirituality" -- Summary: Ideas Instead of Ideologies -- Name Index. |
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Wissenschaft und Spiritualität : Universum, Leben, Geist – Zwei Wege zu den großen Geheimnissen / / von Lars Jaeger
| Wissenschaft und Spiritualität : Universum, Leben, Geist – Zwei Wege zu den großen Geheimnissen / / von Lars Jaeger |
| Autore | Jaeger Lars |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2017.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Berlin, Heidelberg : , : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (XII, 480 S.) |
| Disciplina | 100 |
| Soggetto topico |
Philosophy
Philosophy and science Culture Religion Popular Science in Philosophy Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary Philosophy of Science Sociology of Culture Religious Studies, general |
| ISBN | 3-662-50284-4 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | ger |
| Nota di contenuto | 1 Einleitung: Spiritualität im Zeitalter der Wissenschaft -- 2 Wissenschaft und Spiritualität – Von gemeinsamen Wurzeln und getrennten Sphären -- 3 Die Frage nach dem Anfang – Wie entstand die Welt -- 4 Was die Welt im Innersten zusammenhält – Von der ersten und letzten Substanz der Dinge -- 5 Die Grenzen des Naturalismus – Was ist Leben? -- 6 Was uns zum Menschen macht – Das Wesen des menschlichen Geistes -- 7 Schlussbetrachtungen zum Verhältnis von Wissenschaft und Spiritualität. |
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Women of genius in science : whose frequently overlooked contributions changed the world / / Lars Jaeger
| Women of genius in science : whose frequently overlooked contributions changed the world / / Lars Jaeger |
| Autore | Jaeger Lars |
| Edizione | [1st ed. 2023.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, Switzerland : , : Springer, , [2023] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (223 pages) |
| Disciplina | 500.82 |
| Soggetto topico |
Women in science
Women in science - History Women scientists |
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9783031239267
9783031239250 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 1. Hypatia of Alexandria -- 2. Hildegard von Bingen -- 3. Émilie du Châtelet -- 4. Laura Bassi -- 5. Sophie Germain -- 6. Caroline Herschel -- 7. Ada Lovelace -- 8. Sofja Kowalevskaja -- 9. Marie Curie -- 10. Lise Meitner -- 11. Emmy Noether -- 12. Grete Hermann -- 13. Chien-Shiung Wu -- 14. Rosalind Franklin.-15. Jane Goodall -- 16. Jocelyn Bell Burnell -- 17. Lisa Randall -- 18. Maryam Mirzakhani. |
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