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| 100 | 1 | ▼a Flexner, Abraham, ▼d 1866-1959. |
| 245 | 1 4 | ▼a The usefulness of useless knowledge ▼h [electronic resource] / ▼c Abraham Flexner ; with a companion essay by Robbert Dijkgraaf. |
| 260 | ▼a Princeton, New Jersey : ▼b Princeton University Press, ▼c c2017. | |
| 300 | ▼a 1 online resource (viii, 96 p.). | |
| 500 | ▼a Title from e-Book title page. | |
| 504 | ▼a Includes bibliographical references. | |
| 505 | 0 | ▼a The world of tomorrow / Robbert Dijkgraaf -- The usefulness of useless knowledge / Abraham Flexner. |
| 520 | 8 | ▼a 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. This brief book includes Flexner's timeless 1939 essay alongside a new companion essay by Robbert Dijkgraaf, the Institute's current director, in which he shows that Flexner's defense of the value of "the unobstructed pursuit of useless knowledge" may be even more relevant today than it was in the early twentieth century. Dijkgraaf describes how basic research has led to major transformations in the past century and explains why it is an essential precondition of innovation and the first step in social and cultural change. |
| 530 | ▼a Issued also as a book. | |
| 538 | ▼a Mode of access: World Wide Web. | |
| 650 | 0 | ▼a Research. |
| 650 | 0 | ▼a Science. |
| 650 | 0 | ▼a Discoveries in science. |
| 700 | 1 | ▼a Dijkgraaf, R. |
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| 991 | ▼a E-Book(소장) |
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| No. 1 | 소장처 중앙도서관/e-Book 컬렉션/ | 청구기호 CR 001.4 | 등록번호 E14011704 | 도서상태 대출불가(열람가능) | 반납예정일 | 예약 | 서비스 |
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Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- The World of Tomorrow -- The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS -- FURTHER READING -- .