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

2014 • 417 pages

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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