Essays on the Future
In Honor of Nick Metropolis
Published on 29. June 2000
Book
Hardback
352 pages
978-3-7643-3856-5 (ISBN)
Description
This work represents an undertaking in scientific publishing to honour Nick Metropolis, a survivor of the Manhattan Project that began during World War II in Los Alamos and later became the Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Basel
Switzerland
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
1 halftone
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 155 mm
ISBN-13
978-3-7643-3856-5 (9783764338565)
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Content
Future for nuclear power, H. Agnew; the nature of information modelling, R. Ashenhurst; long time, not see - categorisation in information science, K. Baclawski; the once and future role of approximate calculations, G. Baker; possible future trends in relativity, N. Balazs; the future of libraries, J.A. Freed; a future of physics - information hiding, R. Hamming; the Monte Carlo method in mathematical finance, M. Hawrylycz; a future basis for national security and international policy, O. Judd; on the future of combinatorics, D. Kleitman; apocalypticism, one-time events, and scientific rationality, M. Krieger; the future of Russian science and technology - some personal impressions, N. Krikorian; the future of the Quantum theory of angular momentum - discrete mathematics and combinatorics, J.D. Louck; cancer and the future, T. Puck; cancer treatment with nuclear particles, M. Raju; on pure and applied mathematics, R. Richtmyer; the "legion of science" - another way to exploiting computer technology for scientific discovery, J. Schwartz; future issues in philosophy, R. Sokolowski; the enjoyment of surprises, E. Teller; the future of western civilisation, E. Teller; mathematical sciences and the new biology, M. Waterman.