The Discovery of Chance
Title | The Discovery of Chance PDF eBook |
Author | Aileen Kelly |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 605 |
Release | 2016-05-09 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | 0674737113 |
The intellectual Alexander Herzen was as famous in his day as Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Aileen Kelly presents the first fully rounded study of the farsighted genius whom Isaiah Berlin called the forerunner of much twentieth-century thought. For Herzen, history, like Darwinian nature, was an improvisation both constrained and encouraged by chance.
The Discovery of Chance
Title | The Discovery of Chance PDF eBook |
Author | Aileen M. Kelly |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 605 |
Release | 2016-05-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674969413 |
Alexander Herzen—philosopher, novelist, essayist, political agitator, and one of the leading Russian intellectuals of the nineteenth century—was as famous in his day as Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. While he is remembered for his masterpiece My Past and Thoughts and as the father of Russian socialism, his contributions to the history of ideas defy easy categorization because they are so numerous. Aileen Kelly presents the first fully rounded study of the farsighted genius whom Isaiah Berlin called “the forerunner of much twentieth-century thought.” In an era dominated by ideologies of human progress, Herzen resisted them because they conflicted with his sense of reality, a sense honed by his unusually comprehensive understanding of history, philosophy, and the natural sciences. Following his unconventional decision to study science at university, he came to recognize the implications of early evolutionary theory, not just for the natural world but for human history. In this respect, he was a Darwinian even before Darwin. Socialism for Russia, as Herzen conceived it, was not an ideology—least of all Marxian “scientific socialism”—but a concrete means of grappling with unique historical circumstances, a way for Russians to combine the best of Western achievements with the possibilities of their own cultural milieu in order to move forward. In the same year that Marx declared communism to be the “solution to the riddle of history,” Herzen denied that any such solution could exist. History, like nature, was contingent—an improvisation both constrained and encouraged by chance.
Chance Discovery
Title | Chance Discovery PDF eBook |
Author | Yukio Ohsawa |
Publisher | Springer Science & Business Media |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 2013-03-09 |
Genre | Computers |
ISBN | 3662062305 |
Chance discovery means discovering chances - the breaking points in systems, the marketing windows in business, etc. It involves determining the significance of some piece of information about an event and then using this new knowledge in decision making. The techniques developed combine data mining methods for finding rare but important events with knowledge management, groupware, and social psychology. The reader will find many applications, such as finding information on the Internet, recognizing changes in customer behavior, detecting the first signs of an imminent earthquake, etc. This first book dedicated to chance discovery covers the state of the art in the theory and methods and examines typical scenarios, and it thus appeals to researchers working on new techniques and algorithms and also to professionals dealing with real-world applications.
The Accidental Scientist
Title | The Accidental Scientist PDF eBook |
Author | Graeme Donald |
Publisher | Michael O'Mara Books |
Pages | 182 |
Release | 2013-10-30 |
Genre | Reference |
ISBN | 1782430997 |
The Accidental Scientist explores the role of chance and error in scientific, medical and commercial innovation, outlining exactly how some of the most well-known products, gadgets and useful gizmos came to be.
Discovery by Chance
Title | Discovery by Chance PDF eBook |
Author | Mary Batten |
Publisher | |
Pages | 206 |
Release | 1968 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN |
Describes the contributions of ten scientists whose conclusions drawn from observation of unexpected phenomena greatly influenced scientific development.
The Role of Chance in Discovery
Title | The Role of Chance in Discovery PDF eBook |
Author | Walter Bradford Cannon |
Publisher | |
Pages | 6 |
Release | 1940* |
Genre | |
ISBN |
Chase, Chance, and Creativity
Title | Chase, Chance, and Creativity PDF eBook |
Author | James H. Austin |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2003-08-15 |
Genre | Self-Help |
ISBN | 9780262250108 |
A personal story of the ways in which persistence, chance, and creativity interact in biomedical research. This first book by the author of Zen and the Brain examines the role of chance in the creative process. James Austin tells a personal story of the ways in which persistence, chance, and creativity interact in biomedical research; the conclusions he reaches shed light on the creative process in any field. Austin shows how, in his own investigations, unpredictable events shaped the outcome of his research and brought about novel results. He then goes beyond this story of serendipity to propose a new classification of the varieties of chance, drawing on his own research and examples from the history of science—including the famous accidents that led Fleming to the discovery of penicillin. Finally, he explores the nature of the creative process, considering not only the environmental and neurophysiological correlates of creativity but also the role of intuition in both scientific discoveries and spiritual quests. This updated MIT Press paperback edition includes a new introduction and recent material on medical research, creativity, and spirituality.