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Einstein, Picasso: Space, Time and the Beauty That Causes Havoc
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In this study, Professor Miller asserts that both Einstein and Picasso were influenced by mathematician and philosopher Henri Poincare's LA SCIENCE ET L'HYPOTHESE. Although the two intellectuals never met, Miller reasons that the painter and physicist were working simultaneously, using different mediums, to solve the same problem about ...
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Deciphering the Cosmic Number: The Strange Friendship of Wolfgang Pauli and Carl Jung
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Arthur I Miller
This is the extraordinary story of the famous psychoanalyst Carl Jung and the groundbreaking physicist Wolfgang Pauli's struggle to qualify the unconscious. Pauli was fascinated by the inner reaches of his psyche and not afraid to dabble in the occult, while Jung looked to science for answers to the psychological questions that tormented him. In ...
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Empire of the Stars: Obsession, Friendship, and Betrayal in the Quest for Black Holes
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Arthur I Miller
This science history chronicles the terrible professional and personal toll suffered by astrophysicist Subrahmanyan "Chandra" Chandrasekhar, who, when he first theorized the existence of black holes in 1935, was so soundly ridiculed by his erstwhile mentor, the eminent Sir Arthur Eddington, that general acceptance of the idea did not occur until ...
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Empire of the Stars: Friendship, Obsession and Betrayal in the Quest for Black Holes
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In August 1930, on a boat trip from Bombay to England, the young Indian scientist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar calculated that certain stars could end their lives by collapsing indefinitely to a point -- to nowhere. This idea brought Chandra into conflict with Sir Arthur Eddington, the grand old man of British astrophysics, who publicly ridiculed ...
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Insights of Genius: Imagery and Creativity in Science and Art
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Arthur I Miller
How can knowledge be created from already existing knowledge? "Insights of Genius" shows how seeing is central to the greatest advances of the human intellect. Artists and scientists alike rely on visual representations of worlds both visible and invisible. "Insights of Genius", first published by Copernicus in 1996, explores the creative leaps ...
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Albert Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity
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Arthur I Miller
This book analyzes one of the three great papers Einstein published in 1905, each of which would alter forever the field it dealt with. The second of these papers, "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies," had an impact in a much broader field than electrodynamics: it established what Einstein sometimes referred to (after 1906) as the so-called ...
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Albert Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity: Emergence (1905) and Early Interpretation, 1905-1911
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Imagery in Scientific Thought: Creating 20th-Century Physics
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Arthur I Miller
Arthur I. Miller is a historian of science whose approach has been strongly influenced by current work in cognitive science, and in this book he shows how the two fields might be fruitfully linked to yield new insights into the creative process.
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Early Quantum Electrodynamics: A Source Book
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Arthur I Miller
This book provides a panoramic view from 1927-1938 of the development of a physical theory that has been on the cutting-edge of theoretical physics ever since P. A. M. Dirac's quantization of the electromagnetic field in 1927: quantum electrodynamics. Like the classic papers chosen for this volume, the introductory Frame-Setting Essay emphasizes ...
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Frontiers of Physics, 1900-1911: Selected Essays with an Original Prologue and PostScript
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In the country
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Inge Morath, Arthur Miller
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Creativity & Imagery Inscientific Thinking
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Arthur I. Miller
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York Notes: View from the Bridge
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Arthur Miller, Ian Milligan
York Notes are guides to literature in English, covering major British, American, Commonwealth and Third World works as well as English translations of some important writings in other languages. The Notes are designed for GCSE and A level and are tailored to exam requirements. The books provide criticism on specific texts plus questions. ...
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Maya Rulers of Time: A Study of Architectural Sculpture at Tikal, Guatemala = Los Soberanos Mayas del Tiempo: Un Estudio de La Escultura Arquitectonica de Tikal, Guatemala
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Arthur G Miller, Jay I Kislak Reference Collection
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Anton Chekhov Collected Works
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Arthur Miller (Translator), I. Litvinov (Translator)
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Early Quantum Electrodynamics
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Der Krieg Der Astronomen
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Arthur I.; Kober Miller, Hainer
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