Physics and necessity rationalist pursuits from the Cartesian past to the quantum present /

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.

Main Author: Darrigol, Olivier,
Other Authors: Oxford Scholarship Online.
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2014.
Physical Description: 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
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