Matches in Harvard for { <http://id.lib.harvard.edu/aleph/009105869/catalog> ?p ?o. }
Showing items 1 to 23 of
23
with 100 items per page.
- catalog abstract ""Written for the general reader with an interest in science, the development and interrelationship of the concepts of energy, chance and chaos are set in their historical context, and illuminated by accounts of the key scientists involved and of their investigations."--Jacket.".
- catalog contributor b12823595.
- catalog created "c2002.".
- catalog date "2002".
- catalog date "c2002.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c2002.".
- catalog description ""Written for the general reader with an interest in science, the development and interrelationship of the concepts of energy, chance and chaos are set in their historical context, and illuminated by accounts of the key scientists involved and of their investigations."--Jacket.".
- catalog description "A few points about mathematics -- 1. Steam engines and artillery -- 2. Red blood and electric motors -- 3. Steam engines revisited -- 4. The second law of thermodynamics -- 5. Maxwell's demon -- 6. Chance and the distribution of energy -- 7. Packets of energy -- 8. Energy equals mc²-- 9. Energy and the universe -- 10. Chaos: the science of the unexpected.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. [141]-142) and index.".
- catalog extent "xiii, 146 p. :".
- catalog identifier "0198525168".
- catalog issued "2002".
- catalog issued "c2002.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press,".
- catalog subject "530 21".
- catalog subject "Chance.".
- catalog subject "Chaotic behavior in systems.".
- catalog subject "Force and energy.".
- catalog subject "QC72 .L35 2002".
- catalog tableOfContents "A few points about mathematics -- 1. Steam engines and artillery -- 2. Red blood and electric motors -- 3. Steam engines revisited -- 4. The second law of thermodynamics -- 5. Maxwell's demon -- 6. Chance and the distribution of energy -- 7. Packets of energy -- 8. Energy equals mc²-- 9. Energy and the universe -- 10. Chaos: the science of the unexpected.".
- catalog title "Energy and the unexpected / Keith J. Laidler.".
- catalog type "text".