Petit Point: A Candid Portrait On The Aberrations Of Science - Couverture souple

De Gennes, Pierre-gilles

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 9812560114 ISBN 13 : 9789812560117

Editeur : World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 2004

Synopsis

In this fascinating book, Nobel Prize winner Pierre-Gilles de Gennes wittily captures the lives of personalities from both the academic and the industrial world in delightful bite-size stories. Most of the characters in this collection are like those in Aesop's fables, but in modern-day research settings. The book provides a critical account of aberrations (fortunately rare) of the scientific community. Many lessons can be drawn from the stories. For the young researcher, this book is like a telescope: for seeing other human beings beyond his or her laboratory. For the administrator, this book is like a microscope: for seeing inside the human beings huge and complex structures. However, like Aesop's fables, you would not offer the book as a gift to anyone other than a close and wise friend.Petit Point is not a book to be devoured in a single sitting. It is one to be savored and reflected upon -- it shows what the world may be like and what we ourselves may become. It is like a mirror -- to be visited from time to time.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2004
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9812560114
• ISBN 13: 9789812560117
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 80
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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