Tim Palmer (Ro Royal Society Research Professor in Climate Physics

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The Primacy of Doubt

From climate change to quantum physics, how the science of uncertainty can help predict and understand our chaotic world

Beschreibung

The Primacy of Doubt takes us on a unique journey through the science of uncertainty, covering a breathtaking range of topics, from climate change to the foundations of quantum physics, economic modelling to conflict prediction, free will to consciousness.

Autor

Tim Palmer is a Royal Society Research Professor in the Department of Physics at the University of Oxford. Following a PhD in general relativity theory, he spent much of his career working on the predictability and dynamics of weather and climate, developing probabilistic ensemble prediction systems across a range of weather and climate timescales. He also researches the foundations of quantum physics, in addition to applications of quantum and imprecise computing. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society and an International Member of the US National Academy of Sciences. Amongst other awards, he has won the Institute of Physics Dirac Gold Medal, and the top medals of the American and European Meteorological Societies.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 190mm x 129mm x 37mm
• Gewicht: 280g
• ISBN-13: 9780192843609
• ISBN-10: 0192843605
• Artikelnr.: 68501831