Adventures in Order and Chaos: A Scientific Autobiography

by George Contopoulos

Book Overview

For many years I was organizing a weekly seminar on dynamical astronomy, and I used to make some historical remarks on every subject, including some anecdotes from my contacts with many leading scientists over the years. I described also the development of various subjects and the emergence of new ideasindynamicalastronomy. Thenseveralpeoplepromptedmetowritedown these remarks, which cannot be found in papers, or books. Thus, I decided to write this...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1402030398
• ISBN13: 9781402030390
• Release Date: February 2005
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.4" x 9.8"