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Seeing Double; Shared Identities in Physics, Philosophy, and Literature
"Keterpisahan dan keterhubungan individu mungkin merupakan pertanyaan utama kehidupan manusia: Apa sebenarnya individualitas saya? Sejauh mana keunikannya? Sejauh mana individualitas itu dapat dibagikan, dan bagaimana? Dari waktu ke waktu, sains modern telah menambahkan teori kuantum yang aneh, yang mensyaratkan bahwa partikel dasar yang menyusun segala sesuatu tidak memiliki individualitas sam…
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- Identity (Psychology)
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- 100 PES s
Abel's proof :an essay on the sources and meaning of mathematical unsolvability
The intellectual and human story of a mathematical proof that transformed our ideas about mathematics.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262281478
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- 1 online resource (viii, 213 pages) :illustrations
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Sounding bodies :music and the making of biomedical science
"Sounding Bodies presents the ancient Greek connections between music and medicine, their reception leading to the "sonic turn" in the eighteenth century, new kinds of sonic intervention in psychic disorders and new biological applications of sound"--OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 026236770X
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Polyphonic minds :music, science, and expression
An exploration of polyphony and the perspective it offers on our own polyphonic brains.OCLC-licensed vendor bibliographic record.
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- 9780262342902
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Seeing double :shared identities in physics, philosophy, and literature
"The separateness and connection of individuals is perhaps the central question of human life: What, exactly, is my individuality? To what degree is it unique? To what degree can it be shared, and how? To the many philosophical and literary speculations about these topics over time, modern science has added the curious twist of quantum theory, which requires that the elementary particles of whi…
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Seeing Double: Shared Identities in Physics, Philosophy, and Literature
The separateness and connection of individuals is perhaps the central question of human life: What, exactly, is my individuality? To what degree is it unique? To what degree can it be shared, and how? To the many philosophical and literary speculations about these topics over time, modern science has added the curious twist of quantum theory, which requires that the elementary particles of whic…
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Music and the Making of Modern Science
In the natural science of ancient Greece, music formed the meeting place between numbers and perception; for the next two millennia, Pesic tells us in Music and the Making of Modern Science, “liberal education” connected music with arithmetic, geometry, and astronomy within a fourfold study, the quadrivium. Peter Pesic argues provocatively that music has had a formative effect on the develo…
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Sounding Bodies: Music and the Making of Biomedical Science
The unfolding influence of music and sound on the fundamental structure of the biomedical sciences, from ancient times to the present. Beginning in ancient Greece, Peter Pesic writes, music and sound significantly affected the development of the biomedical sciences. Physicians used rhythmical ratios to interpret the pulse, which inspired later efforts to record the pulse in musical notation.…
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- 9780262367707
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