He was also inspired by the writings of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche . A generation of young turn - of - the - century German - educated intellectuals were attracted to Schopenhauer's underlying philosophical message that optimism was ...
... 170 , 184 , 255 Rutter , Brad , 49 Scéalextric Simulator , 237-239 , 264 , 278 Schadenfreude , 193 Schmidhuber , Jürgen , 138-139 , 169-170 Schoenberg , Arnold , 143 Schopenhauer , Arthur , 193 Schrodinger , Erwin , 12 , 17 Schubert ...
Miller argues that computers can already be as creative as humans—and someday will surpass us. But this is not a dystopian account; Miller celebrates the creative possibilities of artificial intelligence in art, music, and literature.
At the Slade, a further problem was resistance among the teaching staff to the use of computers foranythingoutsideof scienceand technology.In 1981, the Slade's experimental department,EXP, closeditsdoors, though Chris Briscoe, ...
As John Golding emphasizes, it was only in the "years following Demoiselles that Cézanne's reputation as the greatest and most influential figure in nineteenth-century art was firmly laid." Observations such as Golding's alert us to ...
A panoramic view during 1927-1938 of the development of quantum electrodynamics.
Their obsession with the power of certain numbers—including 137, which describes the atom’s fine-structure constant and has great Kabbalistic significance—led them to develop an unlikely friendship and to embark on a joint mystical ...
In its clash of personalities, epochs and cultures, the story reveals the deep-seated psychological and philosophical prejudices at work in the acceptance and rejection of new scientific ideas.
This is the story of an extraordinary and fruitful collaboration between two of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century.--From publisher description.
AI Renaissance Machines: Inside the New World of Machine-created Art, Literature, and Music
Since its original publication, this book has become a standard reference and sourcebook for the history and philosophy of science; however, it can equally well serve as a text on twentieth-century philosophy.
This volume contains proceedings from the International School of History of Science, Sixty-Two Years of Uncertainty: Historical Philosophical and Physical Inquiries into the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, convened at the Ettore Maj ...
Since the Enlightenment, science has been seen as an objective, true method of explanation about the physical and mathematical laws that explain and govern the universe. The 20th Century has...
This volume contains proceedings from the International School of History of Science, Sixty-Two Years of Uncertainty: Historical Philosophical and Physical Inquiries into the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics, convened at the Ettore Maj ...
A history of the idea of "black holes" explores the tumultuous debate over the existence of this now well-accepted phenomenon, focusing particular attention on Indian scientist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.
Albert Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity: Emergence (1905) and Early Interpretation, 1905-1911
Imagery in Scientific Thought: Creating Twentieth Century Physics
Ben shu xi tong lun zheng ke xue zhe xue li lun yu ke xue yan jiu de guan xi, lun zheng ke xue xin li yi xiang zai ke...
Running through the book is the idea that science extends our intuition from common sense to an understanding of a world beyond our perception.