Stumbling Progress of 20th Century Science

How Crises and Great Minds Have Shaped Our Modern World

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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Ground-breaking discoveries, profound crises, revolutionary thoughts, refutation of previously unshakable beliefs - these years are marked by scientific achievements of numerous great minds, who overturned our understanding of the world, of space, time and infinity, of life, logic and calculability almost overnight.

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Utgivningsdatum2022-09-25
Mått156 x 234 x 14 mm
Vikt381 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor251
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783031096174

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Dr Lars Jaeger studied physics, mathematics, philosophy and history in Bonn and Paris and spent several years researching theoretical physics in the field of quantum field theories and chaos theory (University of Bonn, Max Planck Institute for Physics of Complex Systems Dresden). He lives near Zurich, where he has built up two companies of his own that use mathematical methods to model global capital markets. However, his enthusiasm for the natural sciences and philosophy has never left him, and he has already written several books on the subject. His most recent is about the revolutions in science in the first half of the 20th century.

Newton's World Formula that was not a World Formula - How the Speed of Light Shook up Classical Physics.- The Battle about the Atom: From Boltzmann to Einstein – How Pure Chance Broke into the Well-Ordered World of Physics.- Mathematics Becomes Paradoxical - Georg Cantor and the Insurmountable Contradictions in Infinity.- Darwin's Hesitation and Mendel's Diligence - Life as a Plaything of Molecular Elements.- No more Ground Beneath our Feet - The Collapse of Classical Sciences.