Haggstrom

HERE BE DRAGONS C

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: ACADEMIC
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 602g
• ISBN-13: 9780198723547
• ISBN-10: 0198723547
• Artikelnr.: 43043310

Autorenporträt

Olle Häggström is a professor of mathematical statistics at Chalmers University of Technology and a member of the Nobel Prize awarding Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. His most noted research achievements are in probability theory, but his cross-disciplinary research interests are wide-ranging and include climate science, artificial intelligence, and philosophy. He has more than 80 publications in scientific journals, and is a prolific science blogger.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Science for good and science for bad
2: Our planet and its biosphere
3: Engineering better humans?
4: Computer revolution
5: Going nano
6: What is science?
7: The fallacious Doomsday Argument
8: Doomsday nevertheless?
9: Space colonization and the Fermi Paradox
10: What do we want and what should we do?