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Author : John Briggs,F. David Peat
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Science
ISBN : UOM:49015000573759
Explores the many faces of chaos and reveals how its laws direct most of the familiar processes of everyday life.
Author : Rudolf Arnheim
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2023-11-10
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780520917644
Rudolf Arnheim's great forte is his ability to illuminate the perceptual processes that go into the making and reception of artworks—painting, sculpture, architecture, and film. Over the years, his pioneering mode of "reading" art from a unique scientific/philosophic perspective has garnered him an established and devoted audience. That audience will take pleasure in Arnheim's most recent collection of essays, one that covers a range of topics and includes titles such as "Outer Space and Inner Space," "What Is an Aesthetic Fact?," "As I Saw Children's Art," "Two Ways of Being Human," "Consciousness—an Island of Images," and "From Chaos to Wholeness." The notion of structure is Arnheim's guide in these explorations. Most of the essays examine the nature of structure affirmatively: how it comes about, its incentives and objectives, its celebration of perfection. He is interested in how artists grope for structure to shape powerful, enlightening images, and how a scientist's search for truth is a search for structure. Writing with enviable clarity, even when deploying complex arguments, Arnheim makes it easy and exciting to follow him as he thinks. America is not abundantly supplied with "public intellectuals" such as Rudolf Arnheim—to have his writings with us is cause for celebration. "The word 'structure' appears for good reason in the title of this collection. . . . Structure seems to be needed as an arbiter wherever this civilization of ours is split by selfish interests and fighting for either/or decisions. The essays want to speak with the voice of reason, because they want to show how the parts require the whole."
Author : Evgeniĭ Dmitrievich Volkov
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Science
ISBN : 288124016X
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 926 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 1972
Category : Aeronautics
ISBN : NYPL:33433060144072
Lists citations with abstracts for aerospace related reports obtained from world wide sources and announces documents that have recently been entered into the NASA Scientific and Technical Information Database.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 1132 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1973
Category : Nuclear energy
ISBN : UOM:39015026176118
Author : Alexander Stepanov,Valery V. Zaitsev,Valery M. Nakariakov
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783527409945
This concise and systematic account of the current state of this new branch of astrophysics presents the theoretical foundations of plasma astrophysics, magneto-hydrodynamics and coronal magnetic structures, taking into account the full range of available observation techniques -- from radio to gamma. The book discusses stellar loops during flare energy releases, MHD waves and oscillations, plasma instabilities and heating and charged particle acceleration. Current trends and developments in MHD seismology of solar and stellar coronal plasma systems are also covered, while recent progress is presented in the observational study of quasi-periodic pulsations in solar and stellar flares with radio, optical, X and gamma rays. In addition, the authors investigate the origin of coherent radio emission from stellar loops, paying special attention to their fine structure. For advanced students and specialists in astronomy, as well as theoretical and plasma physics.
Author : John Briggs
Publisher : Red Wheel/Weiser
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781609256579
The co-author of Looking Glass Universe probes the nature of creativity and reveals the strategies and tactics of some of our greatest creative minds. What makes geniuses different from the rest of us? What is the difference between a prodigy and a genius? Are geniuses born or made? What is creative vision and where does it come from? What are the secrets of talent? And why do great creators seem to have so many oppositions in their personalities? In this mind-expanding investigation of creativity, John Briggs reveals that there is no special trait of genius. Geniuses are not necessarily smarter or more talented than other people, but they give their attention to subtle nuances, contradictory feelings and perceptions that others experience and ignore. By focusing on sensory nuances, geniuses create themselves. Fire in the Crucible offers a compelling exploration of the roots of creativity and genius. Drawing on the lives and work of extraordinary scientists, artists, writers, composers, and inventors, Briggs shows how creative individuals exploit doubt and uncertainty, and the mental strategies and tactics they employ when they work. “In asking about creativity,” he writes, “we are really asking about what is best, what is deepest in life.” Fire in the Crucible draws the reader into an eye-opening journey through the inner workings of some of the greatest creative minds of all time—and allows us to understand more deeply the nature of creativity in our own lives and work. Praise for Fire in the Crucible “His refreshingly open-ended approach brings us closer to the elusive nature of genius.” —Publishers Weekly “An exuberant voyage through the brains and minds of creative individuals, chock-full of intriguing scientific discoveries and puzzling paradoxes.” —Howard Gardner, Harvard University, author of Multiple Intelligences
Author : Bud A. McClure
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2005-01-15
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135615178
Putting a New Spin on Groups: The Science of Chaos, Second Edition continues to challenge orthodoxy and static ideas about small group dynamics. A primary goal is to offer an alternative model of group development that addresses three factors: *The model integrates old ideas from previous models of group development with new concepts from chaos theory and the work of Arthur Young. *The book emphasizes the importance of conflict in group development and recognizes that group growth--while progressive--is neither linear or unidimensional. *Particular attention is focused on how groups change, evolve, and mature. In addition, this book highlights certain group phenomena that have been given only cursory attention in many group textbooks, including women in authority, group metaphors, regressive groups, and the transpersonal potential of small groups. This book has been revised in response to feedback from reviewers and colleagues and includes new ideas, applications of chaos theory in social sciences, and thinking about group behavior. It is an intellectually challenging read with just the right amount of world application.
Author : John Fleming
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781441182432
Tom Stoppard is widely regarded as one of the leading contemporary British playwrights, a writer who has earned an intriguing mix of both critical and commercial success. Arcadia is considered by many critics to be Stoppard's masterpiece, a work that weds his love for words and ideas in his early career, with his emphasis on storytelling and emotional engagement in his later career. With its engaging alteration between past and present Arcadia offers a comedic and entertaining exploration of chaos theory, entropy, the Second Law of thermodynamics, iterated algorithms, fractals, and other concepts culled from the realms of math and science.
Author : United States. Energy Research and Development Administration
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 756 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Medicine
ISBN : UOM:39015048721693
Author : Donald E. Palumbo
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781476669601
This companion to Frank Herbert's six original Dune novels--Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune and Chapterhouse: Dune--provides an encyclopedia of characters, locations, terms and other elements, and highlights the series' underrated aesthetic integrity. An extensive introduction discusses the theme of ecology, chaos theory concepts and structures, and Joseph Campbell's monomyth in Herbert's narratives.
Author : Glen A. Mazis
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2008-09-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0791475565
Examines the overlap and blurring of boundaries among humans, animals, and machines.
Author : John Aloysius McCarthy
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789042018181
This book is about intersections among science, philosophy, and literature. It bridges the gap between the traditional "cultures" of science and the humanities by constituting an area of interaction that some have called a "third culture." By asking questions about three disciplines rather than about just two, as is customary in research, this inquiry breaks new ground and resists easy categorization. It seeks to answer the following questions: What impact has the remapping of reality in scientific terms since the Copernican Revolution through thermodynamics, relativity theory, and quantum mechanics had on the way writers and thinkers conceptualized the place of human culture within the total economy of existence? What influence, on the other hand, have writers and philosophers had on the doing of science and on scientific paradigms of the world? Thirdly, where does humankind fit into the total picture with its uniquely moral nature? In other words, rather than privileging one discipline over another, this study seeks to uncover a common ground for science, ethics, and literary creativity. Throughout this inquiry certain nodal points emerge to bond the argument cogently together and create new meaning. These anchor points are the notion of movement inherent in all forms of existence, the changing concepts of evil in the altered spaces of reality, and the creative impulse critical to the literary work of art as well as to the expanding universe. This ambitious undertaking is unified through its use of phenomena typical of chaos and complexity theory as so many leitmotifs. While they first emerged to explain natural phenomena at the quantum and cosmic levels, chaos and complexity are equally apt for explaining moral and aesthetic events. Hence, the title "Remapping Reality" extends to the reconfigurations of the three main spheres of human interaction: the physical, the ethical, and the aesthetic or creative.
Author : William E. Doll,M. Jayne Fleener,John St. Julien
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Education
ISBN : 0820467804
Although the fields of chaos and complexity are important in a number of disciplines, they have not yet been influential in education. This book remedies this dilemma by gathering essays by authors from around the world who have studied and applied chaos and complexity theories to their teaching. Rich in its material, recursive in its interweaving of themes, conversational in its relationships, and rigorous in its analysis, the book is essential reading for undergraduates, graduate students, and professionals who deal with these important topics.
Author : United States. Patent and Trademark Office
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 2616 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Patents
ISBN : WISC:89065498826