| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 186 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Pattern Discovery in the Crib of Procrustes -- Close Encounters With Far Ideas -- Remarks on the Semantics of "Information" -- Simulation Models of Organism Behavior: Some Lessons from Precybernetic and Cybernetic Approaches -- Caianiello and Neural Nets -- Computability, Computation, and the Real World -- Structure, Combinatorics, and Complexity of "Words" -- Quantum Field Theory and Renormalization Theory in the Early Scientific Activity of Eduardo R. Caianiello -- The Renormalization Group from Bogoliubov to Wilson -- Caianiello's Maximal Acceleration. Recent Developments -- Modeling Single Neuron Activity in the Presence of Refractoriness: New Contributions to an Old Problem -- Cosmological Implications of Caianiello's Quantum Geometry -- Imagination and Rigor: Their Interaction Along the Way to Measuring Fuzziness and Doing Other Strange Things -- Rational vs Reasonable -- Eduardo |
| Summary |
By remembering the scientific figure of Eduardo R Caianiello, this volume of scientific essays, focuses on his outstanding contributions, from theoretical physics to cybernetics. It also pinpoints with the help of the scientists contributing to the volume, some crucial problems in research in the fields of interest of Eduardo Caianiello |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| In |
Springer eBooks |
| Subject |
Caianiello, E. R. (Eduardo Renato), 1921-1993 -- Congresses
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| SUBJECT |
Caianiello, Eduardo R., 1921- cct |
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Caianiello, E. R. (Eduardo Renato), 1921-1993 fast |
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Cybernetics -- Congresses
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Quantum theory -- Congresses
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Physics -- Congresses.
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Physics.
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Astronomy.
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Physics
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Electronic Data Processing
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Astronomy
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physics.
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astronomy.
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COMPUTERS -- Digital Media -- Audio.
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COMPUTERS -- Speech & Audio Processing.
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COMPUTERS -- Interactive & Multimedia.
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Physics.
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Cybernetics.
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Quantum theory.
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Physique.
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Cybernetics
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Physics
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Quantum theory
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| Genre/Form |
proceedings (reports)
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Festschriften
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Conference papers and proceedings
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Festschriften.
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Actes de congrès.
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Caianiello, E. R. (Eduardo Renato), 1921-1993.
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Termini, S. (Settimo), 1945-
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| LC no. |
2005937057 |
| ISBN |
9788847004726 |
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8847004721 |
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8847003202 |
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9788847003200 |
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661062609X |
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9786610626090 |
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