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Argues that the discoveries of twentieth-century physics--relativity and the quantum theory--demand a radical reformulation of the fundamentals of reality and a way of thinking, that is closer to mysticism than materialism.
Author : P. C. W. Davies
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 16,95 MB
Release : 1984-10-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0671528068
Argues that the discoveries of twentieth-century physics--relativity and the quantum theory--demand a radical reformulation of the fundamentals of reality and a way of thinking, that is closer to mysticism than materialism.
Author : A. D'Abro
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Page : 586 pages
File Size : 13,46 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Mathematical physics
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Written for intelligent readers not familiar with higher mathematics, it is the only thorough explanation in non-technical language of modern mathematical-physical theory. Combining both history and exposition, it ranges from classical Newtonian concepts up through the electronic theories of Dirac and Heisenberg, the statistical mechanics of Fermi, and Einstein's relativity theories.
Author : A. D'Abro
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Page : pages
File Size : 39,35 MB
Release : 1951
Category : Mathematical physics
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Author : A. D'Abro
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 23,74 MB
Release : 1952
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Author : A. d' Abro
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 10,95 MB
Release : 1951
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Author : A. d'Abro
Publisher :
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 20,59 MB
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781447449959
Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
Author : Lee Smolin
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 47,54 MB
Release : 2006
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780618551057
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Author : I. Bernard Cohen
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,47 MB
Release : 1985
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393019940
Relates man's search from the sixteenth century to the present for a physics to describe the dynamics of a universe in motion.
Author : A. D'Abro
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Page : pages
File Size : 21,89 MB
Release : 1939
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Author : Andrew Warwick
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 20,5 MB
Release : 2011-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0226873765
Winner of the the Susan Elizabeth Abrams Prize in History of Science. When Isaac Newton published the Principia three centuries ago, only a few scholars were capable of understanding his conceptually demanding work. Yet this esoteric knowledge quickly became accessible in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries when Britain produced many leading mathematical physicists. In this book, Andrew Warwick shows how the education of these "masters of theory" led them to transform our understanding of everything from the flight of a boomerang to the structure of the universe. Warwick focuses on Cambridge University, where many of the best physicists trained. He begins by tracing the dramatic changes in undergraduate education there since the eighteenth century, especially the gradual emergence of the private tutor as the most important teacher of mathematics. Next he explores the material culture of mathematics instruction, showing how the humble pen and paper so crucial to this study transformed everything from classroom teaching to final examinations. Balancing their intense intellectual work with strenuous physical exercise, the students themselves—known as the "Wranglers"—helped foster the competitive spirit that drove them in the classroom and informed the Victorian ideal of a manly student. Finally, by investigating several historical "cases," such as the reception of Albert Einstein's special and general theories of relativity, Warwick shows how the production, transmission, and reception of new knowledge was profoundly shaped by the skills taught to Cambridge undergraduates. Drawing on a wealth of new archival evidence and illustrations, Masters of Theory examines the origins of a cultural tradition within which the complex world of theoretical physics was made commonplace.