The Truth of Science: Physical Theories and Reality - Couverture souple

Newton, Roger G.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0674001818 ISBN 13 : 9780674001817

Editeur : Harvard University Press, 2000

Synopsis

A distinguished physiscist with a rare gift for making the most complicated sciencetific ideas comprehensible, Roger Newton gives us a guided tour of the intellectual structure of physical science. From there, he conducts us through the understanding of reality engendered by modern physics, the most theoretically advanced of the sciences. With its firsthand look at models, facts, and thoeries, intuition, and imagination, the use of analogies and metaphors, the importance of mathematics (and now, computers) and the "virtual" reality of the physics of micro-particles, The Truth of Science truly is a practicing scientist's account of the foundations, processes, and value of science.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Roger G. Newton is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Physics at Indiana University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0674001818
• ISBN 13: 9780674001817
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 272
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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