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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Lauren Arrington , Zoe Leinhardt , Philip DawidPublisher: Cambridge University Press Imprint: Cambridge University Press Volume: 24 Dimensions: Width: 17.40cm , Height: 1.10cm , Length: 24.50cm Weight: 0.390kg ISBN: 9781107693432ISBN 10: 1107693438 Pages: 210 Publication Date: 23 May 2013 Audience: Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Professional & Vocational , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of ContentsIntroduction: beauty, truth and the sublime Lauren Arrington, Zoe Leinhardt and Philip Dawid; 1. Beauty and truth Robert May; 2. Beauty and the grotesque José Hernández; 3. Quantum beauty Frank Wilczek; 4. The sound of beauty Elizabeth Eva Leach; 5. Beauty and attraction: in the 'eye' of the beholder Jeanne Altmann; 6. Beauty and happiness: Chinese perspectives Jason Kuo; 7. Terror by beauty: Russo-Soviet perspectives Evgeny A. Dobrenko; 8. The science and beauty of nebulae Carolin Crawford.ReviewsAuthor InformationLauren Arrington is Lecturer in Literature at the institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool. She held the Adrian Research Fellowship in English at Darwin College from 2008 to 2009. Her research is focussed on late nineteenth- and twentieth-century literature and history. Zoe Malka Leinhardt is a planetary astrophysicist researching the formation of planets. She is currently an STFC Advanced Fellow in the School of Physics at the University of Bristol. Philip Dawid is a Fellow of Darwin College and Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge. He holds the Snedecor Award for Best Publication in Biometry, the DeGroot Prize for a Published Book in Statistical Science and the Royal Statistical Society's Guy Medals in Bronze and Silver. His research focuses on general principles of reasoning from evidence, both statistical evidence and more general forms. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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