Serendipity : fortune and the prepared mind /
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Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010. |
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Description: | xi, 152 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
Language: | English |
Series: | The Darwin College lectures ; 22 Darwin College lectures. |
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Format: | Print Book |
URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8164374 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Fortune and the prepared mind
- 1. The stratigraphy of serendipity
- 2. Understanding humans - serendipity and anthropology
- 3. HIV and the naked ape
- 4. Cosmological serendipity
- 5. Serendipity in astronomy
- 6. Serendipity in physics
- 7. Liberalism and uncertainty
- 8. The unanticipated pleasures of the writing life