Physics and Necessity: Rationalist Pursuits from the Cartesian Past to the Quantum Present - Hardcover

Darrigol, Olivier

 
9780198712886: Physics and Necessity: Rationalist Pursuits from the Cartesian Past to the Quantum Present

Inhaltsangabe

Recounts a few ingenious attempts to derive physical theories by reason only, beginning with Descartes' geometric construction of the world, and finishing with recent derivations of quantum mechanics from natural axioms.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Olivier Darrigol studied physics at the École Normale Supérieure in Paris, the history and philosophy of physics at the Sorbonne and at UC-Berkeley's Office for History of Science and Technology (OHST). He is the author of several books on the history of quantum physics, electrodynamics, hydrodynamics, and optics. He is currently a member of the SPHere research team at CNRS/Paris 7, and a Research Associate at UC-Berkeley's OHST.



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