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Science a la Mode : Physical Fashions and Fictions.

These iconoclastic and witty essays are about what happens when scientists jump on band-wagons. Tony Rothman applies creative skepticism to contemporary fashions in science, including the ""standard model"" Big Bang theory, geodesic domes, the concept of nuclear winter, and socio...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Rothman, Tony
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2014.
Series:Princeton legacy library.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface; 1. The Garden of Cosmological Delights (with G.F.R. Ellis); 2. Metaflation? (with G.F.R. Ellis); 3. Geodesics, Domes, and Spacetime; 4. The Evolution of Entropy; 5. A Memoir of Nuclear Winter; 6. Genius and Biographers: The Fictionalization of Evariste Galois; Notes; Index.