The World in Prismatic Views

This is one of the few unique books that explicitly explores what the common methodologies are across disciplines that stretch from the humanities to the exact sciences. The goal is to compare and contrast the modes of thinking and methods of research of diverse disciplines to allow readers to explore the common threads and distinct features of approach to research.

Contributed by world-renowned authors, and written at a non-specialist level, it is accessible even to senior undergraduates and graduate students in various disciplines.

Contents:

• The Many Faces of Percolation (Golnoosh Bizhani and Peter Grassberger)
• A Sociological and Complexity-Based Approach to Financial Regulation (Tom G Porter)
• Immunology is Not a Science of Complexity: Implications for Contemporary Ways of Understanding (Peter Bretscher)
• A Sampling of Research Approaches in Developmental Psychology (Beth A Hennessey and Malcolm W Watson)
• Thinking with Whitehead About Methodology: The Challenge of Mathematics Education (Howard Woodhouse)
• Knowledge, Sensory Experience and Sensor Technology (Danièle Dubois, Matt Coler, Heinrich Wörtche)
• Intuition and Knowledge in Physics and Social Science (Chary Rangacharyulu and Emmanuel Haven)
• Scientific Hubris and the Tunnel Vision Driven By Looking Where the Light is Brightest (Bernhard H J Juurlink)
• Multiple Sclerosis and the Immune System: A Commentary (Peter Bretscher and Bernhard H J Juurlink)
• Intuition and Knowledge in Physics (Chary Rangacharyulu)

Readership: Researchers, professionals, academics, senior undergraduates and graduate students in engineering mechanics, quantum physics, international economics, psychology, maths and computer science.