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Springs of Scientific Creativity was first published in 1983. Mathematician Henri Poincaré was boarding a bus when he realized that the transformations of non-Euclidian geometry were just those he needed in his research on the theory of functions. He did not have to interrupt his conversation, stil...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Aris, Rutherford (Editor ), Davis, H. Ted (Howard Ted) (Editor ), Stuewer, Roger H. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, ©1983.
Temas:
Physics > History.
Physicists.
Scientists.
Creative ability in science.
Physics.
Physics
Physique > Histoire.
Physiciens.
Scientifiques.
Créativité en sciences.
Physique.
physicists.
physics.
scientists.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Science & Technology.
MATHEMATICS > Essays.
Creative ability in science
Physicists
Scientists
Natuurwetenschappen.
Creativiteit.
Essay
essays.
Essays
History
Essays.
Essais.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Galileo and early experimentation / Thomas B. Settle
  • Newton's development of the Principia / Richard S. Westfall
  • The origins and consequences of certain of J.P. Johle's scientific ideas / Donald S.L. Cardwell
  • Maxwell's scientific creativity / C.W.F. Everitt
  • The scientific style of Josiah Willard Gibbs / Martin J. Klein
  • Principle scientific contributions of John William Strutt, third Baron Rayleigh / John N. Howard
  • Elmer Sperry and Adrian Leverkühn: a comparison of creative styles / Thomas P. Hughes
  • Walther Nernst and the application of physics to chemistry / Erwin N. Hiebert
  • Albert Einstein and the creative act: the case of special relativity / Stanley Goldberg
  • Erwin Schrödinger and the descriptive tradition / Linda Wessels
  • Michael Polanyi's creativity in chemistry / William T. Scott
  • The role of John von Neumann in the computer field / Herman H. Goldstine.

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