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This volume is based on lectures given at the highly successful three-week Summer School on Geometry, Topology and Dynamics of Character Varieties held at the National University of Singapore's Institute for Mathematical Sciences in July 2010. Aimed at graduate students in the early stages of r...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Newton, Roger G.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Hackensack, N.J. : World Scientific, ©2012.
Temas:
Darwin, Charles, > 1809-1882.
Mendel, Gregor, > 1822-1884.
Pasteur, Louis, > 1822-1895.
Faraday, Michael, > 1791-1867.
Planck, Max, > 1858-1947.
Fermi, Enrico, > 1901-1954.
Scientists > Biography.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Science & Technology.
SCIENCE > History.
Scientists.
Biographies.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction; 1. We Want to Know; Looking at the Heavens; Exploratory Voyages; 2. We Want to Understand; Charles Darwin; Gregor Mendel; Louis Pasteur; Michael Faraday; Max Planck; Enrico Fermi; 3. Science; Chemistry as the Fundamental Science; How Physics Became Most Fundamental; On Reductionism; References and Further Reading; Illustration Credits; Index.

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