The Two Cultures: Shared Problems
Editors: Carafoli, Ernesto, Danieli, Gian Antonio, Longo, Giuseppe O. (Eds.)
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- About this book
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The aim of this book is to offer a profound and unitary discussion of problems of fundamental problems that, although common to the two cultures, have traditionally been considered from different perspectives.
Scientists, philosophers, humanists, musicians and artists have gathered with the purpose of cooperating to establish more fertile grounds for the communication between the two cultures.
The themes dealt with in the book have troubled mankind for centuries, and innumerable efforts have been devoted to their solution. The topics include the concept of time, the meaning of nothingness, infinity, numbers, intelligence and the human mind, the basic mechanisms in the production of thought, the relationship between artistic and scientific creativity, and beauty as a bridge between the two cultures.
- Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Did Time Have a Beginning? A Meeting Point for Science and Philosophy
Pages 3-12
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The Flowand the Map: On the Dynamic and Static Views of Time
Pages 13-25
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The Evolution of the Universe
Pages 27-38
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And the Eternal Zeno Springs to Mind
Pages 39-50
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Creating the Physical World ex nihilo? On the Quantum Vacuum and Its Fluctuations
Pages 51-97
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- The Two Cultures: Shared Problems
- Editors
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- Ernesto Carafoli
- Gian Antonio Danieli
- Giuseppe O. Longo
- Copyright
- 2009
- Publisher
- Springer-Verlag Mailand
- Copyright Holder
- Springer-Verlag Milan
- eBook ISBN
- 978-88-470-0869-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-88-470-0869-4
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-88-470-0868-7
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XIV, 324
- Number of Illustrations
- 115 illustrations in colour
- Topics
