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Physics and Necessity: Rationalist Pursuits from the Cartesian Past to the Quantum Present Darrigol, Olivier (Research Director, Research Director, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
Physics and Necessity: Rationalist Pursuits from the Cartesian Past to the Quantum Present
Darrigol, Olivier (Research Director, Research Director, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)
This book 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.
416 pages, 37 b/w illustrations
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | July 22, 2014 |
| ISBN13 | 9780198712886 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 418 |
| Dimensions | 169 × 248 × 28 mm · 839 g |
| Language | English |