Springs of scientific creativity
essays on founders of modern science
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Contributions
- Aris, Rutherford. - Contributor
- Davis, H. Ted (Howard Ted) - Contributor
- Stuewer, Roger H. - Contributor
Publication
1983 - University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis
Language
English
Word Count
85,500 words, Guess
Page Count
342 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL21529420M
- ISBN-100816610878
- OCLC Control Number9082391
- Library of Congress Control Number82023715
- LibraryThing3648323
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- Goodreads3772059
Classifications
- LCCQC7 .S77 1983
Description
Mathematician Henri Poincaré was boarding a bus when he realized that the transformations of non-Euclidean 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. Poincaré'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.
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- Springs of scientific creativity: essays on founders of modern science
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