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Circles disturbed [[electronic resource] ] : the interplay of mathematics and narrative / / edited by Apostolos Doxiadis and Barry Mazur
| Circles disturbed [[electronic resource] ] : the interplay of mathematics and narrative / / edited by Apostolos Doxiadis and Barry Mazur |
| Edizione | [Core Textbook] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2012 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (593 p.) |
| Disciplina | 510.1/4 |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
DoxiadēsApostolos K. <1953->
MazurBarry |
| Soggetto topico |
Mathematics - Language
Communication in mathematics Mathematics - History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Alasdair MacIntyre
Archimedes Aristotle Bleak House Borel sets Bourbaki Carl Friedrich Gauss David Hilbert Emmy Noether Enlightenment G. E. R. Lloyd Georg Cantor Greece Jean-Pierre Vernant John Archibald Wheeler K-ness L'Algebra Leo Perutz Leopold Kronecker Middlemarch Paul Gordan Plato Rafael Bombelli Robert Thomason ThomasonДrobaugh article Tom Trobaugh abstraction aesthetic contingency algebra automated theorem provers axiomatic mathematics belief chiasmus clues cognitive meaning compound machines computational modeling computer simulations cubic equations deductive mathematics diagramma dreams energeia epistemology existential contingency explanation exploration mathematics finiteness theorems focalization forensic rhetoric formal models geometry ghost ghostwriter group highest common factor imaginary numbers incommensurability intuition irony literary narrative literature machine metaphor mathematical argument mathematical concepts mathematical enquiry mathematical line mathematical modeling mathematical models mathematical objects mathematical physics mathematicians mathematics metanarratology metaphor myth narrative analysis narrative representation narrative subjectivity narrative narratology negative numbers non-Euclidean epistemology non-Euclidean geometry non-Euclidean mathematics non-Euclidean physics non-Euclidean thinking orthe permutation groups perspective poetic storytelling polynomial equations proof quantum mechanics rational enquiry rationality reality scientific inquiry square roots story generator algorithm story grammars story storytelling structural linguistics symbols theology theorems tragic mathematical heroes truth variste Galois vestibular line visions visual line vividness |
| ISBN |
1-283-45704-0
9786613457042 1-4008-4268-9 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. From Voyagers to Martyrs / Alexander, Amir -- Chapter 2. Structure of Crystal, Bucket of Dust / Galison, Peter -- Chapter 3. Deductive Narrative and the Epistemological Function of Belief in Mathematics / Nave, Federicala -- Chapter 4. Hilbert on Theology and Its Discontents / Mclarty, Colin -- Chapter 5. Do Androids Prove Theorems in Their Sleep? / Harris, Michael -- Chapter 6. Visions, Dreams, and Mathematics / Mazur, Barry -- Chapter 7. Vividness in Mathematics and Narrative / Gowers, Timothy -- Chapter 8. Mathematics and Narrative / Teissier, Bernard -- Chapter 9. Narrative and the Rationality of Mathematical Practice / Corfield, David -- Chapter 10. A Streetcar Named (among Other Things) Proof / Doxiadis, Apostolos -- Chapter 11. Mathematics and Narrative: An Aristotelian Perspective / Lloyd, G . E . R . -- Chapter 12. Adventures of the Diagonal: Non-Euclidean Mathematics and Narrative / Plotnitsky, Arkady -- Chapter 13. Formal Models in Narrative Analysis / Herman, David -- Chapter 14. Mathematics and Narrative: A Narratological Perspective / Margolin, Uri -- Chapter 15. Tales of Contingency, Contingencies of Telling / Meister, Jan Christoph -- Contributors -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910778928403321 |
| Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2012 | ||
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| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Information and Interaction : Eddington, Wheeler, and the Limits of Knowledge / Ian T. Durham, Dean Rickles editors
| Information and Interaction : Eddington, Wheeler, and the Limits of Knowledge / Ian T. Durham, Dean Rickles editors |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Cham, : Springer, 2017 |
| Descrizione fisica | xxiii, 212 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
| Soggetto topico |
68-XX - Computer science [MSC 2020]
00A79 (77-XX) - Physics [MSC 2020] 00-XX - General and overarching topics; collections [MSC 2020] |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Arthur Stanley Eddington
Epistemic vs. Ontic Interpretations Foundations of Information John Archibald Wheeler Ontology of Information Physics of Information Quantum computation |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Titolo uniforme | |
| Record Nr. | UNICAMPANIA-VAN0189405 |
| Cham, : Springer, 2017 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Vanvitelli | ||
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What does a black hole look like? / / Charles D. Bailyn
| What does a black hole look like? / / Charles D. Bailyn |
| Autore | Bailyn Charles D. |
| Edizione | [Course Book] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, New Jersey ; ; Oxfordshire, England : , : Princeton University Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
| Disciplina | 523.8/875 |
| Collana | Princeton Frontiers in Physics |
| Soggetto topico |
Black holes (Astronomy)
Astrophysics |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Bondi-Hoyle accretion
Hawking radiation John Archibald Wheeler Kerr black hole Schwarzschild black hole X-ray astronomy X-ray detectors X-ray sources accretion disk accretion disks accretion energy accretion flows accretion accretor mass active galactic nuclei astronomical literature astronomical objects astronomy binary star system black hole evolution black hole formation black holes celestial sources collimated emission beams event horizon event horizons galaxy gas flow geometry general relativity gravitational physics gravitational potential energy gravitational radiation gravitational waves infalling material innermost stable circular orbit intermediate-mass black holes jets kinetic energy light travel luminosity mass infall rate merging black holes multiverses nonspinning black hole observational astrophysics optical stars outflows quantum mechanics quasars quasi-stellar objects radiation relativity scientific study singularities spinning black hole star stellar evolution stellar-mass black holes supermassive black holes supernova explosions supernovae theoretical physics wormholes |
| ISBN | 1-4008-5056-8 |
| Classificazione | US 2200 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introducing Black Holes: Event Horizons and Singularities -- 2. Accretion onto a Black Hole -- 3. Outflows and Jets -- 4. Stellar-Mass Black Holes -- 5. Supermassive Black Holes -- 6. Formation and Evolution of Black Holes -- 7. Do Intermediate-Mass Black Holes Exist? -- 8. Black Hole Spin -- 9. Detecting Black Holes through -- 10. Black Hole Exotica -- Glossary -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910786656903321 |
Bailyn Charles D.
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| Princeton, New Jersey ; ; Oxfordshire, England : , : Princeton University Press, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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What does a black hole look like? / / Charles D. Bailyn
| What does a black hole look like? / / Charles D. Bailyn |
| Autore | Bailyn Charles D. |
| Edizione | [Course Book] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, New Jersey ; ; Oxfordshire, England : , : Princeton University Press, , 2014 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (225 p.) |
| Disciplina | 523.8/875 |
| Collana | Princeton Frontiers in Physics |
| Soggetto topico |
Black holes (Astronomy)
Astrophysics |
| Soggetto non controllato |
Bondi-Hoyle accretion
Hawking radiation John Archibald Wheeler Kerr black hole Schwarzschild black hole X-ray astronomy X-ray detectors X-ray sources accretion disk accretion disks accretion energy accretion flows accretion accretor mass active galactic nuclei astronomical literature astronomical objects astronomy binary star system black hole evolution black hole formation black holes celestial sources collimated emission beams event horizon event horizons galaxy gas flow geometry general relativity gravitational physics gravitational potential energy gravitational radiation gravitational waves infalling material innermost stable circular orbit intermediate-mass black holes jets kinetic energy light travel luminosity mass infall rate merging black holes multiverses nonspinning black hole observational astrophysics optical stars outflows quantum mechanics quasars quasi-stellar objects radiation relativity scientific study singularities spinning black hole star stellar evolution stellar-mass black holes supermassive black holes supernova explosions supernovae theoretical physics wormholes |
| ISBN | 1-4008-5056-8 |
| Classificazione | US 2200 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | Front matter -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introducing Black Holes: Event Horizons and Singularities -- 2. Accretion onto a Black Hole -- 3. Outflows and Jets -- 4. Stellar-Mass Black Holes -- 5. Supermassive Black Holes -- 6. Formation and Evolution of Black Holes -- 7. Do Intermediate-Mass Black Holes Exist? -- 8. Black Hole Spin -- 9. Detecting Black Holes through -- 10. Black Hole Exotica -- Glossary -- Index |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910817229703321 |
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Bailyn Charles D.
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| Princeton, New Jersey ; ; Oxfordshire, England : , : Princeton University Press, , 2014 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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