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This explains everything deep, beautiful, and elegant theories of how the world works

John Brockman 1941-

New York Harper Perennial 2013

Localização: FEA - Fac. Econ. Adm. Contab. e Atuária  ACERVO DELFIM NETTO  (A30.29.33 )(Acessar)

  • Título:
    This explains everything deep, beautiful, and elegant theories of how the world works
  • Autor: John Brockman 1941-
  • Assuntos: HISTÓRIA DA CIÊNCIA; TERRA (PLANETA) (HISTÓRIA); EVOLUÇÃO
  • Notas: Includes bibliographical references and index
  • Descrição: Evolution by means of natural selection / Susan Blackmore -- Life is a digital code / Matt Ridley -- Redundancy reduction and pattern recognition / Richard Dawkins -- The power of absurdity / Scott Atran -- How apparent finality can emerge / Carlo Rovelli -- The overdue demise of monogamy / Aubrey de Grey -- Boltzmann's explanation of the second law of thermodynamics / Leonard Susskind -- The dark matter of the mind / Joel Gold -- "There are more things in heaven and earth...than are dreamt of in your philosophy." / Alda Alda -- An unresolved (and therefore unbeautiful) reaction to the edge question / Rebecca Newberger Goldstein -- Ptolemy's universe / James J. O'Donnell -- Quasi-elegance / Paul Steinhardt -- Mathematical object or natural object? / Shing-Tung Yau -- Simplicity / Frank Wilczek -- Simplicity itself / Thomas Metzinger -- Einstein explains why gravity is universal / Sean Carroll -- Evolutionary genetics and the conflicts of human social life / Steven Pinker -- The Faurie-Raymond hypothesis / Jonathan Gottschall -- Group polarization / David G. Myers -- The price equation / Armand Marie Leroi -- Unconscious inferences / Gerd Gigerenzer -- Snowflakes and the multiverse / Martin J. Rees -- Einstein's photons / Anton Zeilinger -- Go small / Jeremy Bernstein -- Why is our world comprehensible? / Andrei Linde -- Alfv en's cosmos / George Dyson -- Our universe grew like a baby / Max Tegmark -- Kepler et al. and the nonexistent problem / Gino Segr e -- How incompatible worldviews can coexist / Freeman Dyson -- Impossible inexactness / Satyajit Das -- The next level of fundamental matter? / Haim Harari -- Observers observing / Robert Provine -- Genes, claustrum, and consciousness / V.S. Ramachandran -- Overlapping solutions / David M. Eagleman -- Our bounded rationality / Mahzarin Banaji -- Swarm intelligence / Robert Sapolsky -- Language and natural selection / Keith Devlin -- Commitment / Richard H. Thaler -- Tit for tat / Jennifer Jacquet -- Tru
    "Drawn from the cutting-edge frontiers of science, This Explains Everything presents 150 of the most deep, surprising, and brilliant explanations of how the world works, with contributions by Jared Diamond, Richard Dawkins, Nassim Taleb, Brian Eno, Steven Pinker, and more"--
  • Editor: New York Harper Perennial
  • Data de criação/publicação: 2013
  • Formato: xx, 411 p 21 cm.
  • Idioma: Inglês
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