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Science in the Looking Glass : What Do Scientists Really Know?
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Science in the Looking Glass : What Do Scientists Really Know? Hardcover - 2003

by Davies, E. Brian

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  • Title Science in the Looking Glass : What Do Scientists Really Know?
  • Author Davies, E. Brian
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First edition
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 295
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, Incorporated, NY
  • Date 2003-10-09
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # GRP60820692
  • ISBN 9780198525431 / 0198525435
  • Weight 1.58 lbs (0.72 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.68 x 6.14 x 0.85 in (24.59 x 15.60 x 2.16 cm)
  • Library of Congress subjects Science, Science - History
  • Dewey Decimal Code 500

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  • Choice, 04/01/2004, Page 1492

About the author

E Brian Davies, Tutorial Fellow at St John's College, Oxford in 1970 and one of two editors for the Quarterly Journal of Mathematics, Oxford. Developed the theory of open quantum systems, writing a monograph on the subject, which became the standard text. Appointed to the Chair of Pure Mathematics at King's College, London in 1981 and researched heat kernels and spectral theory. Subsequently became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1995. His monograph on heat kernels, involving several hundred publications and having applications in many parts of mathematics, is the authoritative text on the subject. Founded the London Mathematical Society Student Text Series in the 1980s, and has recently become Senior Editor for the LMS Monographs. Has previously been a member of the National Advisory Board of the Isaac Newton Institute and sat on the Research Assessment Exercise Panel for Pure Mathematics in 2001. Published over 180 papers.