Holy Sci-Fi!: Where Science Fiction and Religion Intersect - Couverture souple

Nahin, Paul J. J.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1493906178 ISBN 13 : 9781493906178

Editeur : Springer, 2014

Synopsis

In Holy Sci-Fi!, popular writer Paul Nahin explores the fertile and sometimes uneasy relationship between science fiction and religion. It draws connections between science fact, science fiction, philosophy and theological debate over the past five centuries.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Paul Nahin was born in California, and did all of his schooling there (Brea-Olinda High 1958, Stanford BS 1962, Caltech MS 1963 and - as a Howard Hughes Staff Doctoral Fellow - UC/Irvine PhD 1972, with all degrees in electrical engineering). He has taught at Harvey Mudd College, the Naval Postgraduate School and the Universities of New Hampshire (where he is now emeritus professor of electrical engineering) and Virginia.

Prof. Nahin has published a couple of dozen short science fiction stories in ANALOG, OMNI, and TWILIGHT ZONE magazines, and has written 14 books on mathematics and physics. He has given invited talks on mathematics at Bowdoin College, the Claremont Graduate School, the University of Tennessee and Caltech, has appeared on National Public Radio's "Science Friday" show (discussing time travel) as well as on New Hampshire Public Radio's "The Front Porch" show (discussing imaginary numbers) and advised Boston's WGBH Public Television's "Nova" program on the scriptfor their time travel episode. He gave the invited Sampson Lectures for 2011 in Mathematics at Bates College (Lewiston, Maine).

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer
• Date d'édition: 2014
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1493906178
• ISBN 13: 9781493906178
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 244
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