The Artful Universe ExpandedOUP Oxford, 2011 M03 10 - 336 páginas In The Artful Universe (OUP, 1995) John D. Barrow explored the close ties between our aesthetic appreciation and the basic nature of the Universe, challenging the commonly held view that our sense of beauty is entirely free and unfettered. It looked at some of the unexpected ways in which the structure of the Universe, its laws, its environments, and above all its underlying mathematical structure imprints itself on our thoughts, our aesthetic preferences, and our views about the nature of things. The exploration embraced topics such as perspective; the size of things and the origins of aesthetics; computer art (posing the question: is it art?); and the origins of our susceptibility to music. Life sales of the hardback totalled just over 25,000 copies. The study of the evolutionary and mathematical underpinnings of our aesthetic sense, and our understanding of the nature and scale of the universe has grown over the past decade, with developments in evolutionary psychology, and in cosmology. This paperback of the revised edition (OUP, 2005) contains eight new sections covering the recent discoveries of extrasolar planets, fashionable postmodernist rejection of science as uncovering objective reality, growing understanding of key ratios appearing in biological relationships, and studies of the underlying mathematical structure of a Pollock painting. |
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... all aspects of living things must be the optimal solutions of particular problems posed by the environment. Unfortunately, the situation is not so simple. Although well-defined structural problems are often posed by an environment,
... all aspects of living things must be the optimal solutions of particular problems posed by the environment. Unfortunately, the situation is not so simple. Although well-defined structural problems are often posed by an environment,
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... simple behaviours for a period, but they are not going to provide plausible explanations for intricate living systems of great complexity and stability. Our actions are not predetermined by the results of the natural selection principle ...
... simple behaviours for a period, but they are not going to provide plausible explanations for intricate living systems of great complexity and stability. Our actions are not predetermined by the results of the natural selection principle ...
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... interests was in the process by which children come to appreciate mathematical, geometrical, and logical concepts through manipulating toys that carry concrete information about these abstractions. Simple notions like equality, one.
... interests was in the process by which children come to appreciate mathematical, geometrical, and logical concepts through manipulating toys that carry concrete information about these abstractions. Simple notions like equality, one.
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John Barrow. concrete information about these abstractions. Simple notions like equality, one quantity being larger or smaller than another, the invariance of objects when moved, and so forth, are extracted from the world by playful ...
John Barrow. concrete information about these abstractions. Simple notions like equality, one quantity being larger or smaller than another, the invariance of objects when moved, and so forth, are extracted from the world by playful ...
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... simple creole linguistic form. Typical errors of grammar and word ordering, like double negatives, persist among young children, and are characteristic of the creole form. Speakers thus revert to innate creole grammars if they have not ...
... simple creole linguistic form. Typical errors of grammar and word ordering, like double negatives, persist among young children, and are characteristic of the creole form. Speakers thus revert to innate creole grammars if they have not ...
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branching | |
the evolution of cooperation | |
the art of landscape | |
the dilemma of computer | |
The heavens and the Earth | |
The natural history of noise | |
Alls well that ends well | |
Tales of the unexpected | |
the fabric of the world | |
Illustration acknowledgements | |
Index | |
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