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Roots of Modern Technology An Elegant Survey of the Basic Mathematical and Scientific Concepts /

If the ancient Greek philosopher Socrates came to life again today, he would wonder how airplanes fly and light bulbs glow, but not wonder much about the world's political and social changes that took place since his time. The author puts himself in the position of explaining to Socrates the te...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wendt, Siegfried (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
Edición:1st ed. 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo

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505 0 |a Explaining Modern Technology -- Explaining Modern Technology -- I: Fundamentals of Mathematics and Logic -- Mathematicians Are Humans Like You and Me - They Count and Arrange -- Mathematicians Are Nothing Special - They Draw and Compare -- When It Helps to Ignore Any Meaning -- About the Methods for Computing the Future -- What Talking and Writing Have in Common -- II: Fundamentals of Natural Sciences -- What the Moon Has to Do with Mechanical Engineering -- How Albert Einstein Disregarded Common Sense -- How a Few Frog Legs Triggered the Origin of Electrical Engineering -- Small, Smaller, Smallest - How the Components of Matter Were Found -- How the Difference between Particles and Waves Disappeared -- How "Recipes" in the Cells of Living Organisms Were Found and Can Be Rewritten -- III: Fundamentals of Engineering -- Why Engineers Are "Playing with Models" -- Everything becomes Digital - Really Everything?. 
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