In conversation with Larry Swanson,
Appleman Professor of Biological Sciences, USC
The Great Equations: Breakthroughs in Science from Pythagoras to Heisenberg
Crease, a science historian and philosopher, takes us on a tour of ten of the most important victories in our long struggle to understand the world we live in.
Robert P. Crease writes the “Critical Point” column for Physics World. He is the chairman of the philosophy department at Stony Brook University and lives in New York City. He is the author of, among other books, The Prism and the Pendulum.
Dr. Larry Swanson is Appleman Professor of Biological Sciences and a member of the Neuroscience Research Institute at USC, where he directs a laboratory investigating brainsystems that control motivation and emotion. His recent book Brain Architecture: Understanding the Basic Plan presents a new theory of nervous system organization, and his atlas Brain Maps is in its third edition. He and his wife have translated three classic works of Santiago Ramón y Cajal (1852-1934), the Nobel Prize-winning founder of modern neuroscience, including his 2,000-page masterpiece Histology of the Nervous System and Advice to a Young Investigator. Dr. Swanson is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
