Elegance in Science : The Beauty of Simplicity
Ian Glynn
- United Kingdom Oxford University Press 2010
- 271 p. Ilustraciones, graficas 19.7 cm
The Meaning of elegance - Celestial mechanics: the route to Newton - Bringing the heavens down to earth - So what is heat? - Elegance and electricity - Throwing light on light: with the story of Thomas Young - How do nerves work? - Information handling in the brain - The genetic code - Epilogue: a cautionary tale