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
About this book
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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Physics, philosophyPhysicsPhilosophyHistoryPractical reasonMethodology