Culture, Curiosity and Communication in Scientific Discovery: The Eye in Ideas

ISBN-13: 9781138625587 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 166 str.

Nigel Sanitt

Opis

Culture, Curiosity and Communication in Scientific Discovery is a radical interpretation of how science works and aims to change the way scientists and non-scientists think about science.

Spis treści

Preface  1. Introduction  2. Scientific theories  3. Meaning  4. Questions  5. Networks  6. Graph theory  7. Communication  8. Science and literature  9. Science and religion  10. Science and art  11. Science and history  12. Complexity and culture  13. Mathematics and AI  14. Science and ethics  15. Science and education  16. Summary: The new Atlantis

O autorze

Nigel Sanitt gained his PhD at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge University, where he helped lay the foundations of gravitational lensing research. He is editor of an online journal The Pantaneto Forum, which is devoted to science communication, and founder and chief executive of the Pantaneto Press, which publishes books in the physical sciences. He is author of Routledge Revivals: Science as a Questioning Process (Routledge, 1996). Nigel also writes fiction. He has published two novels under the pen name Norman Stanton,  Perfect Nightmare (Thames River Press, 2013) and The Literary Circle or the Case of the Arrogant Anagram (Pantaneto Press, 2014).