The ideas of Charles Darwin and his fellow Victorian scientists have had an abiding effect on the modern world. But at the time The Origin of Species was published in 1859, the British public looked not to practicing scientists but to a growing group of professional writers and journalists to interpret the larger meaning of scientific theories in terms they could understand and...(展开全部)

The ideas of Charles Darwin and his fellow Victorian scientists have had an abiding effect on the modern world. But at the time The Origin of Species was published in 1859, the British public looked not to practicing scientists but to a growing group of professional writers and journalists to interpret the larger meaning of scientific theories in terms they could understand and...(展开全部)

"Victorian Popularizers of Science" focuses on the journalists and writers who wrote about science for a general audience in the second half of the nineteenth century. Bernard Lightman examines more than thirty of the most prolific and influential popularizers of the day, investigating how they communicated with their audience. By focusing on a forgotten coterie of science writ...(展开全部)

"Victorian Popularizers of Science" focuses on the journalists and writers who wrote about science for a general audience in the second half of the nineteenth century. Bernard Lightman examines more than thirty of the most prolific and influential popularizers of the day, investigating how they communicated with their audience. By focusing on a forgotten coterie of science writ...(展开全部)

From a leading philosopher of the mind comes this lucid, provocative argument that offers a radically new picture of human consciousness--panpsychism. Understanding how brains produce consciousness is one of the great scientific challenges of our age. Some philosophers argue that consciousness is something "extra," beyond the physical workings of the brain. Others think that if...(展开全部)

From a leading philosopher of the mind comes this lucid, provocative argument that offers a radically new picture of human consciousness--panpsychism. Understanding how brains produce consciousness is one of the great scientific challenges of our age. Some philosophers argue that consciousness is something "extra," beyond the physical workings of the brain. Others think that if...(展开全部)

Stephen Wolfram 是Mathematica的创始人，他被广泛地认为是当今科学和技术计算中最重要的革新者。他1959年出生于伦敦，先后在伊顿公学，牛津大学和加利福尼亚理工学院学习。他15岁时发表了他的第一篇学术论文。20岁就在加利福尼亚理工学院获得了理论物理的博士学位。Wolfram早期的科研工作主要在高能物理、量子场理论和宇宙论方面，包括几个当今著名的结果。Wolfram 从1973年起开始使用计算机，并且很快成为正在形成的科学计算领域中的领导者。1979，他开始构造SMP--第一个现代计算机代数系，并于1981年开始商业化发行。 由于早期在物理和计算方面的科研工作，1981年Wolfram成为最年轻的MacArthur 奖学金获得者。 1981年后期, Wolfram 开始了一个雄心勃勃的新的科学方向：发展本质复杂性的一般理论。 Wo...(展开全部)

Two decades in the making, this long-awaited work from one of the world's most respected scientists presents a series of dramatic discoveries never before made public. Starting from a collection of simple computer experiments--illustrated in the book by striking computer graphics--Wolfram shows how their unexpected results force a whole new way of looking at the operation of ou...(展开全部)

迈克尔·巴蒂（Michael Batty），伦敦大学学院高级空间分析中心Bartlett讲座教授。著有《The New Science of Cities》一书。