Overview
- Provides a comprehensive historic view on the foundations of contemporary technology
- Revisits mathematical and other abstract scientific concepts in an surprisingly easy-to-understand but exact manner
- Avoids misleading metaphors, analogies and descriptions by introducing the real scientific fundamental
- Joins together the pieces of distributed knowledge of an educated reader to a consistent world view
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Explaining Modern Technology
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Part I: Fundamentals of Mathematics and Logic
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Part II: Fundamentals of Natural Sciences
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Part III: Fundamentals of Engineering
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“The author has undertaken to teach a willing student … all the mathematics and physics behind the complex technology of contemporary society, ranging from basic numbers to calculus, probability theory, relativity, quantum mechanics, and even string theory. … the book is … elegant. Summing Up: … . General readers.” (M. Schiff, Choice, Vol. 48 (6), February, 2011)Authors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Roots of Modern Technology
Book Subtitle: An Elegant Survey of the Basic Mathematical and Scientific Concepts
Authors: Siegfried Wendt
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12062-6
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-642-12061-9Published: 30 July 2010
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-43111-1Published: 14 October 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-642-12062-6Published: 15 July 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VII, 449
Additional Information: Originally published in German as "Was Sokrates nicht wissen konnte", ISBN 978-3-8274-1953-8, 2008
Topics: Engineering, general, History of Science, Computers and Society