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What is Life? with "Mind and Matter" and "Autobiographica Sketches"

  • What is Life? with "Mind and Matter" and "Autobiographica Sketches"
SKU: WHAT IS LIFE
By Erwin Schrodinger
  • 194 pages US paperback
$19.00
Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger's What is Life? is one of the great science classics of the twentieth century.

The book is a distinguished physicist's exploration of the question which lies at the heart of biology. It was written for the layman, but proved one of the spurs to the birth of molecular biology and the subsequent discovery of the structure of DNA.

Philosopher Karl Popper hailed it as a "beautiful and important book by a great man to whom I owe a personal debt for many exciting discussions." What is Life appears here together with Mind and Matter, an essay that investigates a relationship which has eluded and puzzled philosophers since the earliest times.

Schroedinger asks what place consciousness occupies in the evolution of life, and what part the state of development of the human mind plays in moral questions.

Brought together with these two classics are Schrödinger's autobiographical sketches, published and translated here for the first time. They offer a fascinating fragmentary account of his life which helps provide a background to his scientific writings.

Reviews
"...delightful...Schrödinger writes in a naturally relaxed and pleasant tone that leads us through the difficulties of his subject...It is well worth the trouble. For the serious student of origin-of-life theories, it is the obvious place to start." The Boston Book Review
194 pages US paperback

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