| Springs of Scientific Creativity: Essays on Founders of Modern Science Minne Edition Contributor(s): Aris, Claire (Editor), Davis, H. (Editor), Stuewer, Roger (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0816668302 ISBN-13: 9780816668304 Publisher: University of Minnesota Press OUR PRICE: $59.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 1983 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | Essays |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 6" W x 9" (1.05 lbs) 356 pages |
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| Publisher Description: Springs of Scientific Creativity was first published in 1983.Mathematician Henri Poincar was boarding a bus when he realized that the transformations of non-Euclidian geometry were just those he needed in his research on the theory of functions. He did not have to interrupt his conversation, still less to verify the equation in detail; his insight was complete at that point. Poincar 's insight into his own creativity -- his awareness that preliminary cogitation and the working of the subconscious had prepared his mind for an intuitive flash of recognition -- is just one of many possible analyses of scientific creativity, a subject as fascinating as it is elusive.The authors of this book have chosen to search for the springs of scientific creativity by examining the lives and work of a dozen innovative thinkers in the fields of mathematics, physics, and chemistry from the seventeenth down to the mid-twentieth century. First prepared for delivery in a lecture series held at the University of Minnesota, these essays delve into the social, psychological, and intellectual factors that fostered creativity in the lives of Galilei Galileo, Isaac Newton, J. P. Joule, James Cler Maxwell, Josiah Willard Gibbs, Lord Rayleigh, Elmer Sperry and Adrian Leverk hn, Walter Nernst, Albert Einstein, Erwin Schr dinger, Michael Polyani, and John von Neumann.The contributors are Thomas B. Settle, Richard S. Westfall, Donald S. L. Cardwell, C. W. F. Everitt, Martin J. Klein, John N. Howard, Thomas P. Hughes, Erwin N. Hiebert, Stanley Goldberg, Linda Wessels, William T. Scott, and Herman H. Goldstine. |
Contributor Bio(s): Aris, Claire: - Rutherford Aris was Regents' Professor of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science at the University of Minnesota. |