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245 10 a| Galileo unboundh| [electronic resource] :b| a path across life, the universe and everything /c| David D. Nolte, Purdue University.;

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260 a| Oxford ;a| New York, NY :b| Oxford University Press,c| 2018.;

300 a| xi, 335 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 23 cm;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-326) and index.;

506 a| Available only to authorized users.;

520 a| 'Galileo Unbound' traces the journey that brought us from Galileo's law of free fall to today's geneticists measuring evolutionary drift, entangled quantum particles moving among many worlds, and our lives as trajectories traversing a health space with thousands of dimensions. Remarkably, common themes persist that predict the evolution of species as readily as the orbits of planets or the collapse of stars into black holes. This book tells the history of spaces of expanding dimension and increasing abstraction and how they continue today to give new insight into the physics of complex systems.-- Back jacket cover.;

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Galileo unbound a path across life, the universe and everything / David D. Nolte, Purdue University.

Author/creator	Nolte, D. D.
Format	Electronic
Edition	First edition.
Publication Info	Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Description	xi, 335 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	Galilei, Galileo, 1564-1642. Motion--History. Science, Renaissance. Science--Philosophy. --History.

Abstract	'Galileo Unbound' traces the journey that brought us from Galileo's law of free fall to today's geneticists measuring evolutionary drift, entangled quantum particles moving among many worlds, and our lives as trajectories traversing a health space with thousands of dimensions. Remarkably, common themes persist that predict the evolution of species as readily as the orbits of planets or the collapse of stars into black holes. This book tells the history of spaces of expanding dimension and increasing abstraction and how they continue today to give new insight into the physics of complex systems.-- Back jacket cover.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 319-326) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2017962119
ISBN	9780198805847 (hardback : alk. paper)

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