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

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2014
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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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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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Format: Hardcover
Pages: 416
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 22 May 2014
ISBN 10: 019871288X
ISBN 13: 9780198712886

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

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