The best of all possible worlds : mathematics and destiny / Ivar Ekeland.
The best of all possible worlds : mathematics and destiny / Ivar Ekeland.
The best of all possible worlds : mathematics and destiny / Ivar Ekeland.
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Publisher
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Date
2006.
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N509/188
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Language
English
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p. cm.
Contents
Keeping the beat -- The birth of modern science -- The least action principle -- From computations to geometry -- Poincaré and beyond -- Pandora's box -- May the best one win -- The end of nature -- The common good -- A personal conclusion.
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Publisher
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2006.
Place of Publication
Illinois
Date Published
2006.
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"This book is their story. Ivar Ekeland takes readers on a journey through scientific attempts to envision the best of all possible worlds. He begins with the French mathematician Maupertuis, whose least action principle asserted that everything in nature occurs in the way that requires the least possible action. This idea, Ekeland shows, was a piv...
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The best of all possible worlds : mathematics and destiny / Ivar Ekeland.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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N509/188
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74VKKaNGlLzy
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKKaNGlLzy
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ISBN
0226199940 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780226199948 (cloth : alk. paper)
DDC
509
MMS ID
991021868599702626
