The Search for Solutions (dedikált példány)

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'Science has several rew/ards, but the greatest is that it is the most interesting, difficult, pitiless, exciting, and beautiful pursuit that we have yet found. Science is our century's art.'
With these words, Horace Judson introduces the reader to a subject that is as engrossing as it is important, and to a book that is itself a work of art. Drawing on four hundred years of scientific discovery and on revealing first-hand interviews
with contemporary scientists he sets out the foundations of our scientific knowledge, and sets our universe —from the single cell to the solar system — in a new perspective. In so doing he reveals how the human mind approaches problem solving; for whether we are trying to build a house with proper ventilation or build a space capsule that
is light and yet strong, whether we are trying to predict the outcome of a new recipe before risking it or predict the timing and force of a new tremor in an earthquake zone, we are dealing with the same mental... Tovább

Fülszöveg

'Science has several rew/ards, but the greatest is that it is the most interesting, difficult, pitiless, exciting, and beautiful pursuit that we have yet found. Science is our century's art.'
With these words, Horace Judson introduces the reader to a subject that is as engrossing as it is important, and to a book that is itself a work of art. Drawing on four hundred years of scientific discovery and on revealing first-hand interviews
with contemporary scientists he sets out the foundations of our scientific knowledge, and sets our universe —from the single cell to the solar system — in a new perspective. In so doing he reveals how the human mind approaches problem solving; for whether we are trying to build a house with proper ventilation or build a space capsule that
is light and yet strong, whether we are trying to predict the outcome of a new recipe before risking it or predict the timing and force of a new tremor in an earthquake zone, we are dealing with the same mental processes —identifying problems, recognizing variables, discovering patterns, building models, gathering and weighing evidence, looking for feedback, forming theories, testing predictions.
As the author unravels the complexities of modern science, telling us where we are now and how we got here, he also demonstrates the ways in which the human mind grasps problems —scientific or otherwise —and arrives at solutions. The Search for Solutions is a book for anyone who is curious about the state of the art of science and for everyone who is delighted by the complex affair we call the human mind. Vissza