Brilliant Blunders : from Darwin to Einstein - colossal mistakes by great scientists that changed our understanding of life and the universe / Mario Livio.

By:

Livio, Mario, 1945-

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New Delhi: Simon & Schuster, 2013Description: 341 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781439192375

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DDC classification:

500 23 LIV

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Contents:

Mistakes and blunders -- The origin -- Yea, all which I inherit, shall dissolve -- How old is the Earth? -- Certainty generally is illusion -- Interpreter of life -- Whose DNA is it anyway? -- B for big bang -- The same throughout eternity? -- The "biggest blunder" -- Out of empty space.

Summary: "Drawing on the lives of five great scientists -- Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle and Albert Einstein -- scientist/author Mario Livio shows how even the greatest scientists made major mistakes and how science built on these errors to achieve breakthroughs, especially into the evolution of life and the universe"-- Provided by publisher.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Books	IIT Goa Central Library	500/LIV (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available	1169679\|\|14-03-2024\|\|30.00%		4279

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-323) and index.

"Drawing on the lives of five great scientists -- Charles Darwin, William Thomson (Lord Kelvin), Linus Pauling, Fred Hoyle and Albert Einstein -- scientist/author Mario Livio shows how even the greatest scientists made major mistakes and how science built on these errors to achieve breakthroughs, especially into the evolution of life and the universe"-- Provided by publisher.