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Lojek, Bo |
William Shockley: The Will to Think |
I11806 |
2021 |
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Portugali, Juval |
Self-Organization and the City |
I11369 |
2000 |
eBook |
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Vasant Gowariker (ed.) |
Science, population and development: An exploration of interconnectivities and action possibilities in India |
006126 |
1992 |
Book |
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| Title | William Shockley: The Will to Think |
| Author(s) | Lojek, Bo |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2021. |
| Description | X, 224 p. 161 illus., 60 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book takes a fresh look at the work, thoughts, and life of 1956 Nobel Prize winner William B. Shockley. It reconstructs Shockley???s upbringing, his patriotic achievements during World War II, his contribution to semiconductor physics ??? culminating with the epoch-making invention of the transistor ??? and his views on the social issues of his time. The author???s unparalleled access to Shockley???s personal documents provides insight into a colorful, yet controversial, man, and also sheds light on the attitudes of other prominent scientists of that era. Shockley was not only an outstanding scientist in his own right but also a fiercely independent thinker in perpetual search of the truth. His contributions to the field known today as microelectronics are enormous and unmatched. This book explores the critical facets of Shockley???s life, replete with never-before-published photos and excerpts from his private correspondence and personal notebooks. The book also delves into Shockley???s views on genetics and human intelligence. It tells the story of a man beset by an unrelenting rationality, slandered by the popular media, and ultimately alienated by his peers. It discusses his controversial, although sometimes prescient, ideas regarding human genetics, putting these into the context of modern research findings. Today, William Shockley is perhaps just as enigmatic as his work and accomplishments. The author presents a convincing argument that Shockley still has much to say about the issues of our age, and many of his ideas deserve evaluation in the public forum |
| ISBN,Price | 9783030659585 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Astronomers???Biography
2. Biographies of Physicists and Astronomers
3. Demography
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. Electrical and Electronic Engineering
7. ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING
8. Evolutionary genetics
9. HISTORY OF SCIENCE
10. Physicists???Biography
11. POPULATION
12. Population and Demography
13. Science???History
14. SEMICONDUCTORS
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| Title | Self-Organization and the City |
| Author(s) | Portugali, Juval |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2000. |
| Description | XVII, 352 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Cities first came into existence more than five thousand years ago. How to deal with these partly fascinating, partly frightening creatures of mankind, both practically and intellectually, concerns all of us and, in particular, presents areal challenge to city planners. Each historical epoch has had its own par?? ticular attitudes associated with the "Zeitgeist". Accordingly, the planning and steering of cities were based on quite different criteria. But in spite of these differences, the concept of planning and steering was, and still is, the cornerstone of our dealing with cities. Nevertheless, the planner's dilemma is becoming more and more visible: cities and megacities seem to be un?? plannable. In this book, Juval Portugali intro duces a new idea: Cities are self?? organizing systems. To substantiate his revolutionary concept, he uses several interlinked methods. On the one hand, and to my own delight, he employs in his arguments theoretical tools developed in the interdisciplinary field of synergetics. On the other hand, jointly with his co-workers, he has performed detailed model calculations on cellular nets. It has been a great pleasure and a wonderful experience for me to discuss these concepts with Juval Portugali over a number of years. I was repeatedly and deeply impressed by the way he established profound and often surprising links to other fields of science |
| ISBN,Price | 9783662040997 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. COMPLEX SYSTEMS
2. DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. GEOGRAPHY
6. Geography, general
7. Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning
8. POPULATION
9. Population Economics
10. Regional planning
11. STATISTICAL PHYSICS
12. Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems
13. Urban planning
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