The Swings of Science

From Complexity to Simplicity and Back

Len Pismen (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

VIII, 190 Seiten

2018 | 1st ed. 2018
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-99776-6 (ISBN)

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This book is a personal account of some aspects of the emergence of modern science, mostly from the viewpoint of those branches of physics which provided the much needed paradigm shift of "more is different" that heralded the advent of complexity science as an antidote to the purely reductionist approach in fundamental physics. It is also about the humans that have helped to shape these developments, including personal reminiscences and the realization that the so-called exact sciences are inevitably also a social endeavour with all its facets.
Served by the razor-sharp wit of the author, this erudite ramble is meant to be neither comprehensive nor systematic, but its generous insights will give the inquisitive academically trained mind a better understanding of what science, and physics in particular, could or should be about.

Len Pismen is professor emeritus at Israel Institute of Technology where he held the Julius M. and Bernice Naiman Chair in Fluid Mechanics. He has published two monographs - Vortices in Nonlinear Fields: From liquid crystals to superfluids, From non-equilibrium patterns to cosmic strings (Oxford University Press, 1999), Patterns and Interfaces in Dissipative Dynamics (Springer, 2006) - and is member of the editorial board of The European Physical Journal Special Topics .

Swings Through the Ages.- Continuum Mechanics.- Continuum Beyond Mechanics.- From Continuum to Atoms.- Condensed Matter.- Quantum Matter.- Broken symmetry.- Complexity Simplified.- Complexity Strikes Back.- Quo Vadis?

Erscheinungsdatum	29.12.2018
Zusatzinfo	VIII, 190 p. 108 illus., 83 illus. in color.
Verlagsort	Cham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	314 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturwissenschaft
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Informatik ► Theorie / Studium
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Angewandte Mathematik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie ► Allgemeines / Lexika
Schlagworte	Complexity • from complexity to simplicity and back • History of complexity science • History of modern physics • More is different • Patterns in science • Science as a social endeavour • science from complexity to simplicity
ISBN-10	3-319-99776-9 / 3319997769
ISBN-13	978-3-319-99776-6 / 9783319997766
Zustand	Neuware