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<p>This book is about having ideas and—a much longer haul—making them work. David Jones, best known for his <i>Daedalus</i> column, tells a multitude of stories about creators and their creations, including his own fantastical-seeming contributions to mainstream science such as the unrideable bicycle and chemical gardens in space. His theory of creativity endows each of us with a Random-Ideas Generator, a Censor, and an Observer-Reasoner. Jones applies his theory to a wide range of weird scientific experiments that he has conducted for serious scientific papers, for challenging printed expositions, and for presentations to a TV audience. He even suggests new ones, not yet tried!</p> <p>Creativity is as essential to science as curiosity, physical intuition, and shrewd deduction from well-planned experiments. But, says Jones, ingenuity is very uncertain. Even for the greatest inventors, about 80 percent of ideas fail. Jokiness can help, and so can lots of random data. Jones has plenty of clever advice that will help spark that madly brilliant private thought in the first place—and will encourage you to take it further.</p> <p>Neither dense nor demanding, <i>The Aha! Moment</i> is eng

Who reads The Aha! Moment : a Scientisit's Take on Creativity?

Author

David E. H. Jones [Jones, David E. H.]

Publisher

Johns Hopkins University Press; The Johns Hopkins University Press

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781421404066

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Engineering, Science, Psychology