Overview
- Provides an unconventional, personal and entertaining account of the emergence of modern physics, in particular complexity science
- Includes autobiographical elements and personal reminiscences
- Puts the development of science into a social context
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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.
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About the author
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 .
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Swings of Science
Book Subtitle: From Complexity to Simplicity and Back
Authors: Len Pismen
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99777-3
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Physics and Astronomy, Physics and Astronomy (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-99776-6Published: 19 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-99777-3Published: 06 December 2018
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 190
Number of Illustrations: 25 b/w illustrations, 83 illustrations in colour
Topics: Popular Science in Physics, Complex Systems, Complexity, History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics, Theoretical and Computational Chemistry