Roots of Modern Technology : An Elegant Survey of the Basic Mathematical and Scientific Concepts /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Berlin, Heidelberg :
Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer,
2010.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2010. |
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Table of Contents:
- Explaining Modern Technology
- Explaining Modern Technology
- I: Fundamentals of Mathematics and Logic
- Mathematicians Are Humans Like You and Me - They Count and Arrange
- Mathematicians Are Nothing Special - They Draw and Compare
- When It Helps to Ignore Any Meaning
- About the Methods for Computing the Future
- What Talking and Writing Have in Common
- II: Fundamentals of Natural Sciences
- What the Moon Has to Do with Mechanical Engineering
- How Albert Einstein Disregarded Common Sense
- How a Few Frog Legs Triggered the Origin of Electrical Engineering
- Small, Smaller, Smallest - How the Components of Matter Were Found
- How the Difference between Particles and Waves Disappeared
- How "Recipes" in the Cells of Living Organisms Were Found and Can Be Rewritten
- III: Fundamentals of Engineering
- Why Engineers Are "Playing with Models"
- Everything becomes Digital - Really Everything?.