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The common language of genius: Eureka! While the roads that lead to breakthrough scientific discovery can be as varied and complex as the human mind, the moment of insight for all scientists is remarkably similar. The word "eureka!", attributed to the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes, has come to express that universal moment of joy, wonder-and even shock-at discovering something entirely new. In this collection of twelve scientific stories, Leslie Alan Horvitz describes the drama of sudden insight as experienced by a dozen distinct personalities, detailing discoveries both well known and obscure. From Darwin, Einstein, and the team of Watson and Crick to such lesser known luminaries as fractal creator Mandelbrot and periodic table mastermind Dmitri Medellev, Eureka! perfectly illustrates Louis Pasteur's quip that chance favors the prepared mind. The book also describes how amateur scientist Joseph Priestley stumbled onto the existence of oxygen in the eighteenth century and how television pioneer Philo Farnsworth developed his idea for a TV screen while plowing his family's Idaho farm.

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Kategoria Książki po angielsku Mathematics & science Science: general issues Popular science

• Pełny tytuł: Eureka!
• Podtytuł: Scientific Breakthroughs that Changed the World
• Autor: Leslie Alan Horvitz
• Język: Angielski
• Oprawa: Twarda
• Liczba stron: 256
• EAN: 9780471402763
• ISBN: 0471402761
• ID: 04890596
• Wydawca: John Wiley & Sons Inc
• Waga: 544 g
• Wymiary: 241 × 165 × 19 mm
• Data wydania: 23. January 2002

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