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From certainty to uncertainty : the story of science and ideas in the twentieth century /

Physicist F. David Peat examines the basic philosophic difference between the certainty that characterized the thinking of humankind in the nineteenth century and the startling fall of certainty in the twentieth.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Peat, F. David, 1938-2017
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Washington, D.C. : Joseph Henry Press, ©2002.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Quantum uncertainty
  • On incompleteness
  • From object to process
  • Language
  • The end of representation
  • From clockwork to chaos
  • Re-envisioning the planet
  • Pausing the Cosmos.