Tous les ebooks de la collection "The Frontiers Collection" - Springer

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Télécharger le livre : Science and Free Will
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Science and Free Will
Stephan Schleim
Free will is one of the most discussed topics in neuroscience, psychology and philosophy. Many even assume that our view of human nature and our social order are at stake. This book shows that the academic debate is often conducted under misleading assumptions:...

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Parution : 2024-08-05
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47,46 €
Télécharger le livre : Life. Death. Immortality.
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Life. Death. Immortality.
Denys Pogozhykh , Gennadiy Zhegunov
What are life and death? Is it possible to understand their essence and give clear definitions? Countless books and articles have been devoted to trying to answer these intriguing questions. However, there are still no definite and generally accepted answers. The...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2023-04-29
Collection : The Frontiers Collection
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63,29 €
Télécharger le livre : The Mathematical Representation of Physical Reality
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The Mathematical Representation of Physical Reality
Shahen Hacyan
?This book deals with the rise of mathematics in physical sciences, beginning with Galileo and Newton and extending to the present day. The book is divided into two parts. The first part gives a brief history of how mathematics was introduced into physics—despite its...

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Parution : 2023-03-06
Collection : The Frontiers Collection
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58,01 €
Télécharger le livre : Understanding Relativity
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Understanding Relativity
Wouter Schmitz
This book bridges the huge gap between popular science and mathematical treatments of Einstein's theories. It explains special and general relativity, gravity, black holes, and gravitational waves, also presenting current ideas about dark matter and dark energy. The...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2022-12-17
Collection : The Frontiers Collection
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63,29 €
Télécharger le livre : Information Dynamics
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Information Dynamics
Thomas Dittrich
This wide-ranging book introduces information as a key concept not only in physics, from quantum mechanics to thermodynamics, but also in the neighboring sciences and in the humanities. The central part analyzes dynamical processes as manifestations of information...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2022-11-23
Collection : The Frontiers Collection
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79,11 €
Télécharger le livre : Particles, Fields and Forces
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Particles, Fields and Forces
Wouter Schmitz
This book provides unique and comprehensive conceptual explanations of quantum field theory and the standard model of particle physics. How can fundamental particles exist as waves in the vacuum? How can such waves have particle properties such as inertia? What is...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2022-09-21
Collection : The Frontiers Collection
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58,01 €
Télécharger le livre : The Language of Living Matter
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The Language of Living Matter
Bernd-Olaf Küppers
This book, by an eminent scientist and philosopher, provides strong evidence for the claim that language is a general principle of Nature, rooted exclusively in physical and chemical laws. The author’s radical idea inevitably leads us to view the essence, origin and...

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Parution : 2022-06-01
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52,74 €
Télécharger le livre : From Biological to Artificial Consciousness
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From Biological to Artificial Consciousness
Masataka Watanabe
How does consciousness emerge from a brain that consists only of physical matter and electrical / chemical reactions? The deep mysteries of consciousness have plagued philosophers and scientists for thousands of years. This book approaches the problem through scientific...

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Parution : 2022-05-18
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42,19 €
Télécharger le livre : From Electrons to Elephants and Elections
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From Electrons to Elephants and Elections
Ian Stewart , Shyam Wuppuluri
This highly interdisciplinary book, covering more than six fields, from philosophy and sciences all the way up to the humanities and with contributions from eminent authors, addresses the interplay between content and context, reductionism and holism and their meeting...

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Parution : 2022-04-08
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116,04 €
Télécharger le livre : How Small Social Systems Work
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How Small Social Systems Work
Yair Neuman
Most of us are intuitively familiar with small social systems, such as families and soccer teams. Surprisingly, though, most of us are unaware of how complex these systems are or of the fact that they have a unique character distinguishing them from both populations and...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2021-08-24
Collection : The Frontiers Collection
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47,46 €
Télécharger le livre : Undecidability, Uncomputability, and Unpredictability
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Undecidability, Uncomputability, and Unpredictability
Anthony Aguirre , Zeeya Merali , David Sloan
For a brief time in history, it was possible to imagine that a sufficiently advanced intellect could, given sufficient time and resources, in principle understand how to mathematically prove everything that was true. They could discern what math corresponds to physical...

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Parution : 2021-08-20
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84,39 €
Télécharger le livre : Earth, Our Living Planet
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Earth, Our Living Planet
Philippe Bertrand , Louis Legendre
Earth is, to our knowledge, the only life-bearing body in the Solar System. This extraordinary characteristic dates back almost 4 billion years. How to explain thatEarth is teeming with organisms and that this has lasted for so long? What makesEarth different from its...

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Parution : 2021-04-21
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39,02 €
Télécharger le livre : Active Matter Within and Around Us
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Active Matter Within and Around Us
Len Pismen
This book presents a comprehensive review of various aspects of the novel and rapidly developing field of active matter, which encompasses a wide variety of self-organized self-driven energy-consuming media or agents. Most naturally occurring examples are of biological...

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Parution : 2021-02-15
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89,66 €
Télécharger le livre : Time, Progress, Growth and Technology
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Time, Progress, Growth and Technology
Filipe Duarte Santos
This book addresses the current challenges of sustainable development, including its social, economic and environmental components. The author argues that we need to develop a new concept of time based on inter-generational solidarity, which focuses both on the long-...

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Parution : 2020-09-18
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39,02 €
Télécharger le livre : Understanding Innovation Through Exaptation
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Understanding Innovation Through Exaptation
Caterina Am La Porta , Luciano Pilotti , Stefano Zapperi
This book explores the role of exaptation in diverse areas of life, with examples ranging from biology to economics, social sciences and architecture. The concept of exaptation, introduced in evolutionary biology by Gould and Vrba in 1982, describes the possibility...

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Parution : 2020-07-09
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94,94 €
Télécharger le livre : Computer Meets Theoretical Physics
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Computer Meets Theoretical Physics
Giovanni Battimelli , Giovanni Ciccotti , Giuliana Giobbi , Pietro Greco
This book provides a vivid account of the early history of molecular simulation, a new frontier for our understanding of matter that was opened when the demands of theoretical physicists were met by the availability of the modern computers. Since their inception,...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2020-06-17
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58,01 €
Télécharger le livre : NANO-CHIPS 2030
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NANO-CHIPS 2030
Bernd Hoefflinger , Boris Murmann
In this book, a global team of experts from academia, research institutes and industry presents their vision on how new nano-chip architectures will enable the performance and energy efficiency needed for AI-driven advancements in autonomous mobility, healthcare, and...

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Parution : 2020-06-08
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126,59 €
Télécharger le livre : Morphogenesis Deconstructed
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Morphogenesis Deconstructed
Len Pismen
This book is about morphogenesis as the genesis of forms. It is not restricted to plants growing from seed or animals developing from an embryo (although these do supply the most abundant examples) but also addresses kindred processes, from inorganic to social to...

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Parution : 2020-01-02
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60,12 €
Télécharger le livre : WITTGENSTEINIAN (adj.)
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WITTGENSTEINIAN (adj.)
Newton Da Costa , Shyam Wuppuluri
“Tell me," Wittgenstein once asked a friend, "why do people always say, it was natural for man to assume that the sun went round the earth rather than that the earth was rotating?" His friend replied, "Well, obviously because it just looks as though the Sun is going...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-11-22
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94,94 €
Télécharger le livre : On Art and Science
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On Art and Science
Dali Wu , Shyam Wuppuluri
Einstein once remarked "After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved, science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are always artists as well". In this volume, some of the world’s leading thinkers come...

Editeur : Springer
Parution : 2019-11-02
Collection : The Frontiers Collection
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60,12 €
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