The Primacy of Doubt: From climate change to quantum physics, how the science of uncertainty can help predict and understand our chaotic world - Hardcover

Palmer, Tim

 
9780192843593: The Primacy of Doubt: From climate change to quantum physics, how the science of uncertainty can help predict and understand our chaotic world
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0192843591 ISBN 13: 9780192843593
Verlag: Oxford University Press, 2022

Inhaltsangabe

A bold, visionary, and mind-bending exploration of how the geometry of chaos can explain our uncertain world - from weather and pandemics to quantum physics and free will Covering a breathtaking range of topics - from climate change to the foundations of quantum physics, from economic modelling to conflict prediction, from free will to consciousness and spirituality - The Primacy of Doubt takes us on a unique journey through the science of uncertainty. A key theme that unifies these seemingly unconnected topics is the geometry of chaos: the beautiful and profound fractal structures that lie at the heart of much of modern mathematics. Royal Society Research Professor Tim Palmer shows us how the geometry of chaos not only provides the means to predict the world around us, it suggests new insights into some of the most astonishing aspects of our universe and ourselves. This important and timely book helps the reader makes sense of uncertainty in a rapidly changing world.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tim Palmer is a Royal Society Research Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford. Following a PhD in general relativity theory, he spent much of his career working on the predictability and dynamics of weather and climate, developing probabilistic ensemble prediction systems across a range of weather and climate timescales. He also researches the foundations of quantum physics, in addition to applications of quantum and imprecise computing. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and an International Member of the US National Academy of Sciences. Amongst other awards, he has won the Institute of Physics Dirac Gold Medal, and the top medals of the American and European Meteorological Societies.

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Verlag
Oxford University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2022
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0192843591
ISBN 13 
9780192843593
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
320
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