What I Require From Life
Writings on science and life from J.B.S. Haldane
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- Kiadó OUP Oxford
- Megjelenés dátuma 2009. január 22.
- ISBN 9780199237708
- Kötéstípus Keménykötés
- Terjedelem272 oldal
- Méret 222x146x26 mm
- Súly 459 g
- Nyelv angol
- Illusztrációk 1 b/w frontispiece 0
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Rövid leírás:
What I Require From Life is a compilation of the popular scientific essays of JBS Haldane, one of the scientific giants of the 20th century. Written in the later years of his life, these works reflect his masterful ability to communicate science, his deep commitment to socialism, and his witty, idealistic, and pugnacious character.
TöbbHosszú leírás:
J. B. S. Haldane (1892-64) was one of the scientific giants of the 20th century. A polymath who made important contributions to sciences ranging from physiology to genetics and biochemistry, he was also a highly skilled writer and an extraordinary character - brilliant, witty, idealistic, funny, and pugnacious.
What I Require From Life is a compilation of his popular scientific essays written from the 1940s to last years of his life, that reflect not only his masterful ability to communicate scientific understanding, but also his deep commitment to socialism. The essays included here fall into two groups; those written by Haldane during the 1940s when he embraced Marxism, and those written during his last years in India (1957-64), and they range from An Autobiography in Brief
(written three years before his death), to his Marxist view of evolution The Chicken or the Egg? , to his poignant poem Cancer is a Funny Thing.
Edited with an introduction by Haldane's last graduate pupil, Professor Krishna Dronamraju, this collection of thought-provoking and beautifully-written science writing also comes with a Preface written by the late Sir Arthur C. Clarke, who provides a personal perspective on Haldane's unique place in 20th century science.
A wonderful collection, giving infectious ideas of the energies and mental joys of a remarkable man.
Tartalomjegyzék:
Foreword by Sir Arthur C. Clarke
Preface by James F. Crow
Introduction by Krishna R. Dronamraju
An Autobiography in Brief
Essays from the Marxist period (1937-50)
How to write a popular scientific article
Why I am a Materialist
Adventures of words
What I require from life
What scientists in Russia are doing
How we can date the past
Averages
Quantity and quality
Biology and town-planning
Inventions that made men free
Astronomy
The Milky way
Is there life on the planets?
Common sense about the planets
Weather
Frost
Is man a machine?
Breathing
Why are you left-handed?
Domestic animals
Overcrowding at the Zoo
Life slows down for winter
Bird migration
Why the robin sings
How bees communicate
The mysterious eels
Movies for toads
The chicken or the egg?
The mathematics of evolution
Back to the water
The common cold
Medical measurements
The differential calculus
What is the fourth dimension
Relativity
Matter and energy
How we measured the atom
Essays from the Indian period (1957-64)
Some statistical adventures
Some reflections on non-violence
Science and floods
Colliery explosion
Deep mines
The sound of one hand
Hitting the moon
The dog in the Sputnik
What I want to know about Gagarin
Some autumn stars
The Pleiades and Orion
Some neighbouring stars
The seven rishis
Jyestha
Simplifying astronomy
New light on memory
Relations between biology and other sciences
Darwin in Indian perspective
Keeping cool
Drug-resistant bacteria
