Mechanik, Akustik (1 386 Artikel)

The Adventurous Life of Friedrich Georg Houtermans, Physicist (1903-1966)

This richly illustrated book discusses the ways in which astronomy expanded after 1945 from a modest discipline to a robust and modern science. It begins with an introduction to the state of astron...

This book reveals the multi-generational process involved in humanity's first major scientific achievement, namely the discovery of modern physics, and examines the personal lives of six of the int...

This book examines the different areas of knowledge, traditions, and conceptual resources that contributed to the building of Max Planck's theory of radiation. It presents an insightful comparative...

Not only was E.P. Wigner one of the most active creators of 20th century physics, he was also always interested in expressing his opinion in philosophical, political or sociological matters. This v...

How Far Can Science Take Us?

This book is a historical analysis of the quantum mechanical revolution and the emergence of a new discipline from the perspective, not of a professor, but of a recent or actual Ph.D. student just ...

This book, the first of its kind, helps scientists and engineers of all stages and disciplines share their work in a new way--with movies. Today, much of scientific communication is embedded in pap...

What They Can and Cannot Tell Us About Our World

What They Can and Cannot Tell Us About Our World

Science and Politics - Einstein's Berlin Period with an Appendix on Einstein's FBI File

Science and Politics - Einstein's Berlin Period with an Appendix on Einstein's FBI File

This thesis discusses the random Euclidean bipartite matching problem, i.e., the matching problem between two different sets of points randomly generated on the Euclidean domain. The presence of bo...

This is the third and ?nal volume in a series of Lecture Notes based on the highlysuccessfulEuroSummerSchoolonExoticBeamsthathasbeenrunning yearly since 1993 (apart from 1999) and is planned to con...

Research and scientific progress are based upqn intuition coordinated with a wide theoretical knowledge, experimental skill, and a realistic sense of the limitations of technology. Only a deep insi...