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Miller, Arthur Ira was born on February 6, 1940 in New York City. Son of Murray and Belle (Rubin) Miller.
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Insights of Genius: Imagery and Creativity in Science and Art
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How can new knowledge be created from already existing knowledge? Insights of Genius shows how seeing is central to the greatest advances of the human intellect. Artists and scientists alike rely on visual representations of worlds both visible and invisible.Insights of Genius, first published by Copernicus in 1996, explores the creative leaps that led some of the greatest scientists and artists to dramatically transform how we understand nature. The scope of figures runs from Galileo and da Vinci to Einstein and Picasso. Focusing on the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the age of modern art and modern physics, the book travels through the philosophy of mind and language, cognitive science, neurophysiology, and art history. Insights of Genius discusses intuition, aesthetics, realism, representation, metaphors, and visual imagery. Allied to these concepts are causality, relativity, energy conservation, entropy, the correspondence principle, scientific creativity, and Cubism. Running through the book is the idea that science extends our intuition from common sense to an understanding of a world beyond our perception.
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Albert Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity: Emergence (1905 and Early Interpretation)
(An analysis of one of the three great papers Einstein pub...)
An analysis of one of the three great papers Einstein published in 1905, each of which was to alter forever the field it dealt with. The second of these papers, "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies", established what Einstein sometimes referred to as the "so-called Theory of Relativity". Miller uses the paper to provide a window on the intense intellectual struggles of physicists in the first decade of the 20th century: the interplay between physical theory and empirical data; the fiercely held notions that could not be articulated clearly or verified experimentally; the great intellectual investment in existing theories, data, and interpretations - and associated intellectual inertia - and the drive to the long-sought-for unification of the sciences. Since its original publication, this book has become a standard reference and sourcebook for the history and philosophy of science; however, it can equally well serve as a text on twentieth-century philosophy.
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Insights of Genius: Imagery and Creativity in Science and Art by Arthur I. Miller (2000-03-10)
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Insights of Genius: Imagery and Creativity in Science and Art (Paperback) - Common
(Explores the creative leaps that led some of the greatest...)
Explores the creative leaps that led some of the greatest scientists and artists to dramatically transform how we understand nature. The scope of figures runs from Galileo and da Vinci to Einstein and Picasso. The text focuses on the late-19th and 20th centuries, the age of modern art and physics.
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Arthur Ira Miller
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Bachelor of Science, City College of New York, 1961; Doctor of Philosophy, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1965.
Career
Professor, U. Massachusetts, Lowell, 1965-1990; professor, University College London, London, since 1991.
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Insights of Genius: Imagery and Creativity in Science and Art
( How can new knowledge be created from already existing ...)
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Albert Einstein's Special Theory of Relativity: Emergence (1905 and Early Interpretation)
(An analysis of one of the three great papers Einstein pub...)
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Insights of Genius: Imagery and Creativity in Science and Art (Paperback) - Common
(Explores the creative leaps that led some of the greatest...)
- Early Quantum Electrodynamics ; a Source Book
- Insights of Genius: Imagery and Creativity in Science and Art by Arthur I. Miller (2000-03-10)
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Insights of Genius: Imagery and Creativity in Science and Art
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Married Marlyn Joan Lieber, June 17, 1962 (divorced September 1984). Children: Lori, Scott. Married Norma Marilyn Wasserman, October 21, 1988.
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