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Half-life Of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has An Expiration Date [Kõva köide]

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  • Formaat: Hardback, 246 pages, kõrgus x laius: 236x160 mm, kaal: 442 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 18-Oct-2012
  • Kirjastus: Current
  • ISBN-10: 159184472X
  • ISBN-13: 9781591844723
Teised raamatud teemal:
  • Formaat: Hardback, 246 pages, kõrgus x laius: 236x160 mm, kaal: 442 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 18-Oct-2012
  • Kirjastus: Current
  • ISBN-10: 159184472X
  • ISBN-13: 9781591844723
Teised raamatud teemal:
"A new approach to uderstanding the ever-changing information that bombards us. Arbesman is an expert in scientometrics, literally the science of science--how we know what we know. It turns out that knowledge in most fields evolves in systematic and predictable ways, and understanding that evolution can enormously powerful"--

A Harvard University research fellow and scientometrics expert analyzes the changing nature of factual information to explain how knowledge in most fields evolves in systematic and predictable ways that, if properly understood, can be powerful tools for training and professional improvement.

A scientometrics expert analyzes the changing nature of factual information to explain how knowledge in most fields evolves in systematic and predictable ways that, if properly understood, can be powerful tools for training and professional improvement.

Chapter 1 The Half-life of Facts
1(8)
Chapter 2 The Pace of Discovery
9(17)
Chapter 3 The Asymptote of Truth
26(14)
Chapter 4 Moore's Law of Everything
40(26)
Chapter 5 The Spread of Facts
66(30)
Chapter 6 Hidden Knowledge
96(25)
Chapter 7 Fact Phase Transitions
121(19)
Chapter 8 Mount Everest and the Discovery of Error
140(31)
Chapter 9 The Human Side of Facts
171(29)
Chapter 10 At the Edge of What We Know
200(11)
Acknowledgments 211(4)
Notes 215(20)
Index 235