The Language Of Atoms

Author : Mark C Baker
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786724560
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Atoms Of Language written by Mark C Baker and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-08-05 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether all human languages are fundamentally the same or different has been a subject of debate for ages. This problem has deep philosophical implications: If languages are all the same, it implies a fundamental commonality-and thus the mutual intelligibility-of human thought. We are now on the verge of answering this question. Using a twenty-year-old theory proposed by the world's greatest living linguist, Noam Chomsky, researchers have found that the similarities among languages are more profound than the differences. Languages whose grammars seem completely incompatible may in fact be structurally almost identical, except for a difference in one simple rule. The discovery of these rules and how they may vary promises to yield a linguistic equivalent of the Periodic Table of the Elements: a single framework by which we can understand the fundamental structure of all human language. This is a landmark breakthrough, both within linguistics, which will thereby become a full-fledged science for the first time, and in our understanding of the human mind.

Author : W. H. Shearin
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190202424
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Language of Atoms written by W. H. Shearin and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shearin argues that ancient Epicurean writing on language offers a theory of performative language. Such a theory describes how languages acts, providing psychic therapy or creating new verbal meanings, rather than passively describing the nature of the universe. This observation allows us new insight into how Lucretius, our primary surviving Epicurean author, uses language in his great poem, 'De rerum natura' ('On the Nature of Things').

Author : Lawrence M. Krauss
Publisher : Hachette+ORM
ISBN 13 : 0759523215
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atom written by Lawrence M. Krauss and published by Hachette+ORM. This book was released on 2001-04-11 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of matter and the history of the cosmos from the perspective of a single oxygen atom, told with the insight and wit of one of the most dynamic physicists and writers working today. Through this astonishing work, he manages to stoke wonder at the powers and unlikely events that conspired to create our solar system, our ecosystem, and us.

Author : Paul L. A. Popelier
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
ISBN 13 : 9780582367982
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atoms in Molecules written by Paul L. A. Popelier and published by Longman Publishing Group. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Atoms in Molecules (AIM) is a powerful and novel theory for understanding chemistry, acting as a bridge between fundamental chemical concepts - such as the atom, the bond and molecular structure - and quantum mechanics. It is used increasingly in both theoretical and crystallographic research internationally, including its use in interpreting experimental charge densities. This book provides a balanced, consistent and didactic account of this exciting theory, explaining its potential impact and making it accessible to a wide audience.

Author : Laura Fermi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022614965X
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atoms in the Family written by Laura Fermi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-10-24 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this absorbing account of life with the great atomic scientist Enrico Fermi, Laura Fermi tells the story of their emigration to the United States in the 1930s—part of the widespread movement of scientists from Europe to the New World that was so important to the development of the first atomic bomb. Combining intellectual biography and social history, Laura Fermi traces her husband's career from his childhood, when he taught himself physics, through his rise in the Italian university system concurrent with the rise of fascism, to his receipt of the Nobel Prize, which offered a perfect opportunity to flee the country without arousing official suspicion, and his odyssey to the United States.

Author : William Weltner
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780486661407
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Magnetic Atoms and Molecules written by William Weltner and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1989-01-01 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive graduate-level text by a leading researcher in atomic and molecular spectroscopy explores the electron-spin-resonance theory of randomly oriented molecules. "I recommend it highly." ? American Scientist. 119 illustrations.

Author : Matt Tweed
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802714080
Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Essential Elements written by Matt Tweed and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2003-04-01 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A short, illustrated introduction to the tiny building blocks of our universeincluding atoms, quarks, and the periodic table. Illustrations. 10,000print.

Author : Lisa Trumbauer
Publisher : Perfection Learning
ISBN 13 : 9780756958008
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book What Are Atoms? written by Lisa Trumbauer and published by Perfection Learning. This book was released on 2005-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rookie Read-About Science series.

Author : Peter William Atkins
Publisher : Times Books
ISBN 13 : 9780716750284
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Atoms, Electrons, and Change written by Peter William Atkins and published by Times Books. This book was released on 1991 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals the links between an atom's structure and its chemical destiny showing how an atom makes its passage through nature.

Author : LEE. OKAN
Publisher : Nixes Mate Books
ISBN 13 : 9780999397169
Total Pages : 60 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Lives of Atoms written by LEE. OKAN and published by Nixes Mate Books. This book was released on 2017-12 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In an ambitious first book Lee Okan draws a daring parallel between the life of the universe and our own lives and loves. Here is a remarkable weaving of metaphysics and physics, in dreamlike writing as much poetry as prose. Here is a fiction aware of its construction - and willing to let us witness its sequences and discoveries. -- Danielle Legros Georges, Poet Laureate, City of Boston