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A brief history of intelligence : from the big bang to the metaverse
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ISBN: 3031159519 3031159500 Year: 2023 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Springer,

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Les mathématiques comme habitude de pensée : Les idées scientifiques de Pavel Florenski
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ISBN: 2848679476 2848679425 Year: 2022 Publisher: Besançon : Presses universitaires de Franche-Comté,

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Mathématicien russe, prêtre orthodoxe, déporté et mort au goulag au début du vingtième siècle, Paul Florenski conçoit les mathématiques comme une science de l’être humain. Sa synthèse philosophico-mathématique s’inspire notamment des idées de théorie des ensembles pour non seulement comprendre le monde, mais plus radicalement façonner les phénomènes et fonder la culture spirituelle pour les générations futures. Cette démarche l’amène à relire les intuitions mathématiques comme une forme de spiritualité qui rend capable de comprendre la finitude du monde. Russian mathematician, Orthodox priest, deported to the Gulag and dead at the beginning of the XXth century, Paul Florenski conceives mathematics as a human science. His philosophical and mathematical synthesis is grounded on the set theory not only in order to understand the world, but more deeply to even shape phenomena and pin the future spiritual culture for next generation. This approach involves understanding mathematical intuitions as a spiritual form, which enable to perceive directly world in its finitude. Matématico ruso, sacerdote ortodoxo, deportado y murto en los campos del gulag al principio del siglo XX, Paul Florenski concibe las mathematicas como una ciencia humana. Sua filosófico-mathematica síntesis se funde primordialmente sobre la teoría de los conjuntos no solo para comprender el mundo, pero también para más radicalemente moldear los fenómenos y fundar une cultura espiritual para las generaciones futuras. Esta atención a las intuiciones mathematicas lleva a considerar geometría y algebra como una forma de espiritualidad, que hace capaz de entender la finitud del mundo.


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Black Hole Information and Thermodynamics
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ISBN: 3030109194 3030109186 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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Based on Prof. Lüst's Masters course at the University of Munich, this book begins with a short introduction to general relativity. It then presents black hole solutions, and discusses Penrose diagrams, black hole thermodynamics and entropy, the Unruh effect, Hawking radiation, the black hole information problem, black holes in supergravity and string theory, the black hole microstate counting in string theory, asymptotic symmetries in general relativity, and a particular quantum model for black holes. The book offers an up-to-date summary of all the pertinent questions in this highly active field of physics, and is ideal reading for graduate students and young researchers.

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Black holes (Astronomy) --- Thermodynamics. --- Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory. --- Cosmology. --- Quantum Field Theories, String Theory. --- Chemistry, Physical and theoretical --- Dynamics --- Mechanics --- Physics --- Heat --- Heat-engines --- Quantum theory --- Gravitation. --- Quantum field theory. --- String theory. --- Models, String --- String theory --- Nuclear reactions --- Relativistic quantum field theory --- Field theory (Physics) --- Relativity (Physics) --- Astronomy --- Deism --- Metaphysics --- Matter --- Antigravity --- Centrifugal force --- Properties --- Forats negres (Astronomia) --- Cosmologia --- Termodinàmica --- Termologia --- Dinàmica --- Física --- Mecànica --- Bombes de calor --- Dinàmica de gasos --- Entalpia --- Entropia --- Mecànica estadística --- Processos irreversibles --- Radiació del cos negre --- Segon principi de la termodinàmica --- Termodinàmica atmosfèrica --- Termodinàmica del desequilibri --- Termoelasticitat --- Termoquímica --- Transferència de massa --- Anàlisi tèrmica --- Calor --- Fred --- Màquines tèrmiques --- Motors tèrmics --- Teoria quàntica --- Univers (Metafísica) --- Deisme --- Filosofia de la natura --- Metafísica --- Antropocentrisme --- Big Bang --- Cosmologia islàmica --- Cosmologia jueva --- Cosmologia quàntica --- Etern retorn --- Expansió de l'univers --- Hipòtesi nebular --- Macrocosmos --- Microcosmos --- Monadologia --- Origen del sistema solar --- Origen dels planetes --- Pluralitat de mons --- Principi antròpic --- Quatre elements (Filosofia) --- Teleologia --- Teosofia --- Creació --- Col·lapse gravitacional --- String models.


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The Evolving Universe and the Origin of Life : The Search for Our Cosmic Roots
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ISBN: 3030179214 3030179206 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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Regarding his discoveries, Sir Isaac Newton famously said, "If I have seen further it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants." The Evolving Universe and the Origin of Life describes, complete with fascinating biographical details of the thinkers involved, a history of the universe as interpreted by the expanding body of knowledge of humankind. From subatomic particles to the protein chains that form life, and expanding in scale to the entire universe, this book covers the science that explains how we came to be. This book contains a great breadth of knowledge, from astronomy and physics to chemistry and biology. The second edition brings this story up to date, chronicling scientific achievements in recent years in such fields of research as cosmology, the large-scale architecture of the universe, black holes, exoplanets, and the search for extraterrestrial life. With over 250 figures, this is a non-technical, easy-to-read textbook at an introductory college level that is ideal for anyone interested in science as well as its history.


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Fictions of the cosmos
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ISBN: 9780226011240 0226011240 1283281570 9781283281577 0226011224 9780226011226 9780226011226 0226011224 9786613281579 Year: 2011 Publisher: Chicago London

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In today's academe, the fields of science and literature are considered unconnected, one relying on raw data and fact, the other focusing on fiction. During the period between the Renaissance and the Enlightenment, however, the two fields were not so distinct. Just as the natural philosophers of the era were discovering in and adopting from literature new strategies and techniques for their discourse, so too were poets and storytellers finding inspiration in natural philosophy, particularly in astronomy. A work that speaks to the history of science and literary studies, Fictions of the Cosmos explores the evolving relationship that ensued between fiction and astronomical authority. By examining writings of Kepler, Godwin, Hooke, Cyrano, Cavendish, Fontenelle, and others, Frédérique Aït-Touati shows that it was through the telling of stories-such as through accounts of celestial journeys-that the Copernican hypothesis, for example, found an ontological weight that its geometric models did not provide. Aït-Touati draws from both cosmological treatises and fictions of travel and knowledge, as well as personal correspondences, drawings, and instruments, to emphasize the multiple borrowings between scientific and literary discourses. This volume sheds new light on the practices of scientific invention, experimentation, and hypothesis formation by situating them according to their fictional or factual tendencies.

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Cosmología --- Literatura --- Cosmology in literature. --- Literature and science. --- Cosmology --- European literature --- Poetry and science --- Science and literature --- Science and poetry --- Science and the humanities --- History. --- History and criticism. --- Cosmology in literature --- Literature and science --- History --- History and criticism --- Cosmologie dans la littérature --- Littérature et sciences --- Cosmologie --- Littérature européenne --- Histoire --- Histoire et critique --- scientific, scientist, universe, stars, astrology, literature, literary, 1600s, history, historical, academic, scholarly, research, stories, renaissance, enlightenment, time period, era, natural philosopher, philosophy, nature, philosophical, discourse, terms, astronomy, astronomical, planets, space, kepler, godwin, close reading, analysis, critique, interdisciplinary. --- Universo --- Metafísica --- Deísmo --- Ciencias espaciales --- Cosmología antigua --- Cosmología bíblica --- Agujeros negros (Astronomía) --- Cosmología judía --- Filosofía de la naturaleza --- Literatura mundial --- Arte literario --- Bellas letras --- Ficción --- Filología --- Romanceros --- Absurdo (Filosofía) en la literatura --- Crítica literaria --- Adivinación en la literatura --- África en la literatura --- Afrodita (Deidad griega) en la literatura --- Agricultura en la literatura --- Agua en la literatura --- Alimentos en la literatura --- Argumentos (Teatro, novela, etc.) --- Géneros literarios --- Juegos lingüísticos --- Parodias --- Prosa --- Arte de escribir --- Orígenes --- Thematology --- History of civilization --- anno 1600-1699


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Substance in Aristotle's Metaphysics Zeta
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ISBN: 303022161X 3030221601 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,

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This book argues that according to Metaphysics Zeta, substantial forms constitute substantial being in the sensible world, and individual composites make up the basic constituents that possess this kind of being. The study explains why Aristotle provides a reexamination of substance after the Categories, Physics, and De Anima, and highlights the contribution Z is meant to make to the science of being. Norman O. Dahl argues that Z.1-11 leaves both substantial forms and individual composites as candidates for basic constituents, with Z.12 being something that can be set aside. He explains that although the main focus of Z.13-16 is to argue against a Platonic view that takes universals to be basic constituents, some of its arguments commit Aristotle to individual composites as basic constituents, with Z.17’s taking substantial form to constitute substantial being is compatible with that commitment. .


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Quantum codes for topological quantum computation
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ISBN: 3031068327 3031068335 Year: 2022 Publisher: Cham, Switzerland : Springer,


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Classical and Quantum Physics : 60 Years Alberto Ibort Fest Geometry, Dynamics, and Control
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ISBN: 3030247481 3030247473 Year: 2019 Publisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,

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This proceedings is based on the interdisciplinary workshop held in Madrid, 5-9 March 2018, dedicated to Alberto Ibort on his 60th birthday. Alberto has great and significantly contributed to many fields of mathematics and physics, always with highly original and innovative ideas. Most of Albertos’s scientific activity has been motivated by geometric ideas, concepts and tools that are deeply related to the framework of classical dynamics and quantum mechanics. Let us mention some of the fields of expertise of Alberto Ibort: Geometric Mechanics; Constrained Systems; Variational Principles; Multisymplectic structures for field theories; Super manifolds; Inverse problem for Bosonic and Fermionic systems; Quantum Groups, Integrable systems, BRST Symmetries; Implicit differential equations; Yang-Mills Theories; BiHamiltonian Systems; Topology Change and Quantum Boundary Conditions; Classical and Quantum Control; Orthogonal Polynomials; Quantum Field Theory and Noncommutative Spaces; Classical and Quantum Tomography; Quantum Mechanics on phase space; Wigner-Weyl formalism; Lie-Jordan Algebras, Classical and Quantum; Quantum-to-Classical transition; Contraction of Associative Algebras; contact geometry, among many others. In each contribution, one may find not only technical novelties but also completely new way of looking at the considered problems. Even an experienced reader, reading Alberto's contributions on his field of expertise, will find new perspectives on the considered topic. His enthusiasm is happily contagious, for this reason he has had, and still has, very bright students wishing to elaborate their PhD thesis under his guidance.What is more impressive, is the broad list of rather different topics on which he has contributed.

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Mathematical physics. --- Physical mathematics --- Physics --- Mathematics --- Calculus of variations. --- Associative rings. --- Rings (Algebra). --- Manifolds (Mathematics). --- Complex manifolds. --- Differential geometry. --- Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics. --- Mathematical Physics. --- Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control; Optimization. --- Associative Rings and Algebras. --- Manifolds and Cell Complexes (incl. Diff.Topology). --- Differential Geometry. --- Differential geometry --- Analytic spaces --- Manifolds (Mathematics) --- Geometry, Differential --- Topology --- Algebraic rings --- Ring theory --- Algebraic fields --- Rings (Algebra) --- Isoperimetrical problems --- Variations, Calculus of --- Maxima and minima --- Teoria quàntica --- Dinàmica quàntica --- Física quàntica --- Mecànica quàntica --- Teoria dels quanta --- Teoria dels quàntums --- Dinàmica --- Física --- Mecànica de matrius --- Causalitat (Física) --- Conversions internes (Física nuclear) --- Cosmologia quàntica --- Efecte Raman --- Electrodinàmica quàntica --- Entrellaçament quàntic --- Gravetat quàntica --- Integrals de camí --- Nivells d'energia (Mecànica quàntica) --- Operador de Schrödinger --- Òptica quàntica --- Pertorbació (Dinàmica quàntica) --- Quantització geomètrica --- Quasipartícules (Física) --- Química quàntica --- Relacions de dispersió --- Renormalització (Física) --- Supergravetat --- Teoria de banda d'energia dels sòlids --- Teoria quàntica relativista --- Dinàmica molecular --- Radiació --- Termodinàmica --- Geometry, Differential.

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