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Physics and Necessity: Rationalist Pursuits from the Cartesian Past to the Quantum Present
Physics and Necessity Rationalist Pursuits from the Cartesian Past to the Quantum Present
Author: Olivier Darrigol
Can we prove the necessity of our best physical theories by rational means, without appeal to experience? 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. Deductions...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780198712886
ISBN-10: 019871288X
Publication Date: 7/22/2014
Pages: 416
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Publisher: Oxford University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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