Olivier Darrigol

Physics and Necessity

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 418
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 251mm x 163mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 839g
• ISBN-13: 9780198712886
• ISBN-10: 019871288X
• Artikelnr.: 40544943

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

1: Rationalism in the history of mechanics
2: The necessity of classical mechanics
3: From mechanical reduction to general principles
4: Geometry
5: Spacetime
6: Numbers and math
7: Classical field theories
8: Quantum mechanics
9: Necessity, theories, and modules