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Instability rules : the ten most amazing ideas of modern science  Cover Image Book Book

Instability rules : the ten most amazing ideas of modern science / Charles Flowers.

Flowers, Charles. (Author).

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  • ISBN: 0471380423 :
  • ISBN: 9780471380429
  • Physical Description: xi, 228 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
  • Publisher: New York : Wiley, c2002.

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General Note:
Includes index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Hubble and the expanding universe -- Einstein and the wonder of light -- Bohr and the puzzles of the quantum world -- Wegener and the dance of the continents -- Big bang, big crunch, and big bore -- Fermat, Godel, and fuzzy math -- Mendel, Watson, Crick, and the human genome -- Hominids, humans, and the search for origins -- Turing and the brain as computer, and vice versa -- Freud, the unconscious, and other views.
Subject: Science > Popular works.

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