Kategoria BISAC: Science >> Physics - General

This book illuminates a few highly significant events in history in which astronomers have helped keep contacts between astronomers of different states in moments of international political tensions or even crises. The chapters, written by 20 international authors, focus on four periods where astronomers were particularly active in international relations:

1. The WWI period, the epoch of the creation of the IAU, in the context of the simultaneous creation of other scientific unions. The book also singles out the important role of A.S. Eddington and his network “across forbidden...

Wer Wissenschaft verstehen will, sollte die Menschen kennen, die sie zustande bringen, und erfahren, warum ihnen bei ihrem Bemühen nicht alles gelingen kann.

Um einer Reihe von Biographien berühmter Forscherinnen und Forscher eine besondere Note zu geben, führt Ernst Peter Fischer deshalb die Großen an ihre Grenze und stellt neben ihren Leistungen auch die Aufgaben vor, an denen sie gescheitert oder verzweifelt sind. Genauso wie Albert Einstein bei der Frage "Was ist Licht?" nie eine zufriedenstellende Antwort geben konnte, misslang Francis Cricks Versuch, seinen Triumph beim...

This book takes the notions of adaptivity and learning from the realm of engineering into the realm of biology and natural processes. It introduces a Hebbian-LMS algorithm, an integration of unsupervised Hebbian learning and supervised LMS learning in neural networks, as a mathematical representation of a general theory for synaptic learning in the brain, and adaptation and functional control of homeostasis in living systems. Written in a language that is able to address students and scientists with different backgrounds, this book accompanies readers on a unique journey through various...