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Flowers, Charles.

Instability rules : the ten most amazing ideas of modern science / Charles Flowers. - New York : Wiley, 2002. - xi, 228 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Includes index.

Hubble and the expanding universe -- Einstein and the wonder of light -- Bohr and the puzzles of the quantum world -- Wegener and the dance of the continents -- Big bang, big crunch, and big bore -- Fermat, Godel, and fuzzy math -- Mendel, Watson, Crick, and the human genome -- Hominids, humans, and the search for origins -- Turing and the brain as computer, and vice versa -- Freud, the unconscious, and other views.

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