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Beauty: Darwin College Lectures, cartea 24

Editat de Lauren Arrington, Zoe Leinhardt, Philip Dawid
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 22 mai 2013
Beauty challenges conventional approaches to the subject through an interdisciplinary approach that forges connections between the arts, sciences and mathematics. Classical, conventional aspects of beauty are addressed in subtle, unexpected ways: symmetry in mathematics, attraction in the animal world and beauty in the cosmos. This collection arises from the Darwin College Lecture Series of 2011 and includes essays from eight distinguished scholars, all of whom are held in esteem not only for their research but also for their ability to communicate their subject to popular audiences. Each essay is entertaining, accessible and thought-provoking and is accompanied by images illustrating beauty in practice. Contributors include the artist José Hernández, Nobel Prize Laureate Frank Wilczek, Lord May of Oxford and Jeanne Altmann (Eugene Higgins Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Princeton University).
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781107693432
ISBN-10: 1107693438
Pagini: 210
Ilustrații: 67 b/w illus.
Dimensiuni: 174 x 245 x 11 mm
Greutate: 0.39 kg
Ediția:New.
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria Darwin College Lectures

Locul publicării:New York, United States

Cuprins

Introduction: beauty, truth and the sublime Lauren Arrington, Zoe Leinhardt and Philip Dawid; 1. Beauty and truth Robert May; 2. Beauty and the grotesque José Hernández; 3. Quantum beauty Frank Wilczek; 4. The sound of beauty Elizabeth Eva Leach; 5. Beauty and attraction: in the 'eye' of the beholder Jeanne Altmann; 6. Beauty and happiness: Chinese perspectives Jason Kuo; 7. Terror by beauty: Russo-Soviet perspectives Evgeny A. Dobrenko; 8. The science and beauty of nebulae Carolin Crawford.

Descriere

This collection challenges conventional ideas of beauty by exploring unconventional approaches to the topic in the arts, sciences and mathematics.