History of science (500)

publisher: Springer
year: 2013
description:This edited volume includes contributions from internationally renowned experts in the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. It applies his later philosophy to concrete issues pertaining to the integrity of scientific claims in a broad spectrum of resea...

publisher: Springer
year: 2011
description:Nicht Mathematik zu betreiben, sondern zu erfahren ist das Abenteuer, das dieses Buch bietet – Denkexpeditionen, deren Ausgangspunkt Fragen sind: Was steckt hinter mathematischen Fiktionen wie den unendlich vielen Stufen des Unendlichen oder dem Letz...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book aims to provide an overview of several topics in advanced differential geometry and Lie group theory, all of them stemming from mathematical problems in supersymmetric physical theories. It presents a mathematical illustration of the main d...

publisher: Springer
year: 2015
description:Once the United States landed on the moon in July 1969, it was up to President Nixon to decide what to do in space after Apollo. This book chronicles the decisions he made, including ending space exploration and approving the space shuttle. Those dec...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book looks at classic puzzles from the perspective of their structures and what they tell us about the brain. It uses the work on the neuroscience of mathematics from Dehaene, Butterworth, Lakoff, Núñez, and many others as a lens to understand t...

publisher: Springer
year: 2016
description:This book explores the relationship between cities and their commercial airports. These vital transportation facilities are locally owned and managed and civic leaders and boosters have made them central to often expansive economic development dream...

publisher: Springer
year: 2019
description:Alexander L. George was one of the most productive and respected political scientistsof the late twentieth century. He and his wife, Juliette George, wrote one of the firstpsychobiographies, and Professor George went on to write seminal articles and ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2012
description:Alfred Weber was an important participant in the dialogue over the political and cultural crises of the late Empire and Weimar Republic. This study connects Weber's career to the social, political, intellectual, cultural, and institutional contexts o...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description:Jonas Pohl liefert eine didaktisch aufbereitete Einführung in die Gedankenwelt der Allgemeinen Relativitätstheorie. Er gibt einen Einblick in die Grundlagen von 100 Jahren Relativitätstheorie und spannt dabei den Bogen von der Speziellen Relativitäts...

publisher: Springer
year: 2017
description: This book analyses US and UK efforts to shut down Pakistan’s nuclear programme in the 1970s, between the catalytic Indian nuclear test of May 1974 and the decline of sustained non-proliferation activity from mid-1979 onwards. It is a tale of co...

publisher: Springer
year: 2005
description:An Introduction to Buddhist Psychology is a lucid, intelligible and authentic introduction to the foundations of Buddhist psychology. It provides comprehensive coverage of the basic concepts and issues in the psychology of Buddhism and thus it deals ...

publisher: Springer
year: 2018
description:This book explores the relationship between cultural psychology and aesthetics, by integrating the historical, theoretical and phenomenological perspectives. It offers a comprehensive discussion of the history of aesthetics and psychology from an int...