Physics and necessity: rationalist pursuits from the cartesian past to the quantum present
Auteur :
Darrigol, Olivier
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press
ISBN :
9780198712886
Date de publication :
22 mai 2014
Dimensions :
21,0 x 15,0 x 2,5 cm
Poids :
830 g
Format :
book
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
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.