Book Reviews experienced reader. It concerns "Human Beings and Their Machines" from the philosophical and sociological standpoint. A cryptic quotation follows: "Nothing in our society educates human beings to live; at best they are being trained to make a living. And at present they are being traine
Some problems in chemical kinetics and reactivity. Volume 1: by N. N. Semenov. 239 pages, 6 × 9 in. Princeton, Princeton University Press, 1958. Price, $4.50 (paper)
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1958
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 81 KB
- Volume
- 266
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0016-0032
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✦ Synopsis
ments in theoretical physics--theory of automata, information theory, and the theory of microscopic measurement in the atomic and molecular domain. The author believes that these developments justify a new approach to biological theory; he aims in this book to pose the problem in such a way that it will stimulate new work in the field. Physicists, chemists and biologists should find this a provocative invitation to reexamine old concepts.
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