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Usefulness of Useless Knowledge

Name: Usefulness of Useless Knowledge
Brand: Princeton University Press
SKU: 14433348
Price: 16.99 EUR
Availability: InStock
Author: Abraham Flexner
ISBN: 9780691174761

Abraham Flexner

Robert Dijkgraaf

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Codice Libristo: 14433348

Casa editrice Princeton University Press, febbraio 2017

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A forty-year tightening of funding for scientific research has meant that resources are increasingly directed toward applied or practical outcomes, with the intent of creating products of immediate value. In such a scenario, it makes sense to focus on the most identifiable and urgent problems, right? Actually, it doesn't. In his classic essay "The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge," Abraham Flexner, the founding director of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and the man who helped bring Albert Einstein to the United States, describes a great paradox of scientific research. The search for answers to deep questions, motivated solely by curiosity and without concern for applications, often leads not only to the greatest scientific discoveries but also to the most revolutionary technological breakthroughs. In short, no quantum mechanics, no computer chips.