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In Reinventing Discovery, Michael Nielsen argues that we are living at the dawn of the most dramatic change in science in more than 300 years. This change is being driven by powerful new cognitive tools, enabled by the internet, which are greatly accelerating scientific discovery. There are many books about how the internet is changing business or the workplace or government. But this is the first book about something much more fundamental: how the internet is transforming the nature of our collective intelligence and how we understand the world. Reinventing Discovery tells the exciting story of an unprecedented new era of networked science. We learn, for example, how mathematicians in the Polymath Project are spontaneously coming together to collaborate online, tackling and rapidly demolishing previously unsolved problems. We learn how 250,000 amateur astromers are working together in a project called Galaxy Zoo to understand the large-scale structure of the Universe, and how they are making astonishing discoveries, including an entirely new kind of galaxy. These efforts are just a small part of the larger story told in this book--the story of how scientists are using the internet to dramatically expand our problem-solving ability and increase our combined brainpower. This is a book for anyone who wants to understand how the online world is revolutionizing scientific discovery today--and why the revolution is just beginning.

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PublisherPrinceton University Press

ISBN-100691160198

ISBN-139780691160191

eBay Product ID (ePID)183785480

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Number of Pages272 Pages

Publication NameReinventing Discovery : the New Era of Networked Science

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2013

SubjectPopular Science

TypeTextbook

AuthorMichael Nielsen

Subject AreaComputers, Reference, Science

FormatTrade Paperback (Us), Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight14 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width7.3 in

Height235mm

Width152mm

Weight399g

Additional Product Features

Date of Publication05/12/2013

Place of PublicationNew Jersey

Spine17mm

GenrePopular Science

Country of PublicationUnited States

Author BiographyMichael Nielsen is one of the pioneers of quantum computing. He is an essayist, speaker, and advocate of open science. He lives in Toronto.

Content Note6 Halftones. 8 Line Illus.