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Author : Max Born
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (867 download)
Download or read book Physics in My Generation, a Selection of Papers written by Max Born and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Max Born
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3662251892
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (622 download)
Download or read book Physics in My Generation written by Max Born and published by Springer. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE idea of collecting these essays occurred to me when, in the leisure of retire ment, I scanned some of my own books and found that two of the more widely read show a startling change of attitude to some of the fundamental concepts of science. These are Einstein's Theory of Relativity of 1921 and the American edition of The Restless Universe of 1951. I have taken the introduction of as the former the first item of this collection, the postscript to the latter as its last. These books agree in the relativistic concept of space and time, but differ in many other funda mental notions. In 1921 I believed-and I shared this belief with most of my contemporary physicists-that science produced an objective knowledge of the world, which is governed by deterministic laws. The scientific method seemed to me superior to other, more subjective ways of forming a picture of the world philosophy, poetry, and religion; and I even thought the unambiguous language of science to be a step towards a better understanding between human beings. In 1951 I believed in none of these things. The border between object and subject had been blurred, deterministic laws had been replaced by statistical ones, and although physicists understood one another well enough across all national frontiers they had contributed nothing to a better understanding of nations, but had helped in inventing and applying the most horrible weapons of destruction.
Author : Max Born
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Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (458 download)
Download or read book Physics in My Generation, a Selection of Papers by Max Born,... written by Max Born and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Károly Simonyi
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1568813295
Total Pages : 666 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (688 download)
Download or read book A Cultural History of Physics written by Károly Simonyi and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2012-01-25 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While the physical sciences are a continuously evolving source of technology and of understanding about our world, they have become so specialized and rely on so much prerequisite knowledge that for many people today the divide between the sciences and the humanities seems even greater than it was when C. P. Snow delivered his famous 1959 lecture, "The Two Cultures." In A Cultural History of Physics, Hungarian scientist and educator Károly Simonyi succeeds in bridging this chasm by describing the experimental methods and theoretical interpretations that created scientific knowledge, from ancient times to the present day, within the cultural environment in which it was formed. Unlike any other work of its kind, Simonyi’s seminal opus explores the interplay of science and the humanities to convey the wonder and excitement of scientific development throughout the ages. These pages contain an abundance of excerpts from original resources, a wide array of clear and straightforward explanations, and an astonishing wealth of insight, revealing the historical progress of science and inviting readers into a dialogue with the great scientific minds that shaped our current understanding of physics. Beautifully illustrated, accurate in its scientific content and broad in its historical and cultural perspective, this book will be a valuable reference for scholars and an inspiration to aspiring scientists and humanists who believe that science is an integral part of our culture.
Author : Chen Ning Yang
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814480134
Total Pages : 622 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)
Download or read book Selected Papers (1945-1980) Of Chen Ning Yang (With Commentary) written by Chen Ning Yang and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2005-08-22 with total page 622 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A remarkable personal and professional chronicle by one of today's leading physicists, this is a collection of Chen Ning Yang's personally selected papers supplemented by his insightful commentaries. Including previously unpublished or hard-to-find works, this volume contains Yang's important papers on statistical physics, nuclear forces, and particle physics. Among them are his seminal work with T D Lee on the nonconservation of parity, for which they won the Nobel Prize, and his work with R L Mills, which led to modern gauge theories with their exciting prospects for the broad unification of field theories.The commentaries were written especially for this volume and provide a fascinating account of Yang's development as a physicist as well as a look at many important physicists of the 20th century. They trace the development of Yang's interests and ideas from his graduate school days to the present, showing how he worked with his colleagues and how their physics came into being.Together, the papers and commentaries in this unique collection comprise a powerful personal statement, shedding light on both the intellectual development of a great physicist and on the nature of scientific inquiry.
Author : Chen Ning Yang
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9812703357
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (127 download)
Download or read book Selected Papers (1945-1980), with Commentary written by Chen Ning Yang and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2005 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Consists of 73 articles and added items exclusively for this edition.
Author : Vyacheslav S. Stepin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1402030460
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Theoretical Knowledge written by Vyacheslav S. Stepin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2005-11-13 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Theoretical Knowledge an original conception of a structure and dynamics of scientific knowledge is proposed. A detailed analysis of the foundations of science performed by the author allowed him to develop new ideas and approaches, to demonstrate how sociocultural factors are incorporated in the process of yielding of new theories. He shows direct and inverse links between foundations of science and new theories and empirical facts evolved from those, how among many potentially possible histories of science a culture selects just those directions which become a real history of science. The author analyses mechanisms of the generation of scientific theories and shows that those are changed in the process of historical development of science. He displays three historical types of scientific rationality (classical, non-classical and post-non-classical, which appears in modern science) and shows features of their coexistence and interplay. It is shown that along with the emerging of post-non-classical rationality science increases the sphere of its worldview applications. Science begins to correlate not only with the basic values of technogenic civilization but also with some values and patterns of traditional cultures. The investigation is based on the extensive literature on the history of natural and social sciences. The reader will find in the book authentic historical reconstructions of the processes of the development of classical and quantum electrodynamics, relativity, and conceptions of evolution in biology.
Author : Helge Kragh
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691095523
Total Pages : 514 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (955 download)
Download or read book Quantum Generations written by Helge Kragh and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2002-03-24 with total page 514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the end of the nineteenth century, some physicists believed that the basic principles underlying their subject were already known, and that physics in the future would only consist of filling in the details. They could hardly have been more wrong. The past century has seen the rise of quantum mechanics, relativity, cosmology, particle physics, and solid-state physics, among other fields. These subjects have fundamentally changed our understanding of space, time, and matter. They have also transformed daily life, inspiring a technological revolution that has included the development of radio, television, lasers, nuclear power, and computers. In Quantum Generations, Helge Kragh, one of the world's leading historians of physics, presents a sweeping account of these extraordinary achievements of the past one hundred years. The first comprehensive one-volume history of twentieth-century physics, the book takes us from the discovery of X rays in the mid-1890s to superstring theory in the 1990s. Unlike most previous histories of physics, written either from a scientific perspective or from a social and institutional perspective, Quantum Generations combines both approaches. Kragh writes about pure science with the expertise of a trained physicist, while keeping the content accessible to nonspecialists and paying careful attention to practical uses of science, ranging from compact disks to bombs. As a historian, Kragh skillfully outlines the social and economic contexts that have shaped the field in the twentieth century. He writes, for example, about the impact of the two world wars, the fate of physics under Hitler, Mussolini, and Stalin, the role of military research, the emerging leadership of the United States, and the backlash against science that began in the 1960s. He also shows how the revolutionary discoveries of scientists ranging from Einstein, Planck, and Bohr to Stephen Hawking have been built on the great traditions of earlier centuries. Combining a mastery of detail with a sure sense of the broad contours of historical change, Kragh has written a fitting tribute to the scientists who have played such a decisive role in the making of the modern world.
Author : Chen Ning Yang
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814449024
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)
Download or read book Selected Papers II, with Commentaries written by Chen Ning Yang and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2013 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of Professor Chen Ning Yang's personally selected papers (1971-2012) supplemented by his commentaries. Its contents reflect the professor's changing interests after he reached age sixty.
Author : Anja Skaar Jacobsen
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814452084
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)
Download or read book Leon Rosenfeld: Physics, Philosophy, And Politics In The Twentieth Century written by Anja Skaar Jacobsen and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2012-01-16 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Léon Rosenfeld (1904-1974) was a remarkable, many-sided physicist of exceptional erudition. He was at the center of modern physics and was well-known as Niels Bohr's close collaborator and spokesman. Besides he reflected deeply on the history and philosophy of science and its social role from a leftist perspective. As both actor and acute spectator of modern physics and as a polyglot cosmopolitan whose life crossed those of many important people in both the East and West, as well as by virtue of his close collaboration and friendship with Bohr, Rosenfeld was an important figure in twentieth century physics. His biography illuminates the development, popularization, and reception of quantum physics and its interpretation in addition to the development of the political Left. The book draws extensively from previously untapped, unpublished sources in more than five languages.
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 0802716377
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)
Download or read book The Impossible Takes Longer written by and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-10-02 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quotations from Nobel Prize winners are grouped by such topics as achievement, beliefs, life and death, human qualities, emotions, human relations, knowledge and learning, arts and culture, places, politics, science, medicine, and war and peace.
Author : Chen Ning Yang
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9814449032
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (144 download)
Download or read book Selected Papers Of Chen Ning Yang Ii: With Commentaries written by Chen Ning Yang and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2013-05-10 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Chen Ning Yang, an eminent contemporary physicist, was Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey, from 1955 to 1966, and Albert Einstein Professor of Physics at the State University of New York at Stony Brook until his retirement in 1999. He has been Distinguished Professor-at-Large at the Chinese University of Hong Kong since 1986 and Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing, since 1998.Since receiving his PhD from the University of Chicago in 1948, Prof Yang has made great impacts in both abstract theory and phenomenological analysis in modern physics. In 1983, he published “Selected Papers (1945-1980), With Commentary”. It has been considered by Freeman Dyson as one of his favorite books. The present book is a sequel to that earlier volume. It is a collection of his personally selected papers (1971-2012) supplemented by his insightful commentaries. Its contents reflect Professor Yang's changing interests after he reached age sixty. It also includes commentaries written by him in 2011 when he is 89 years old.The papers and commentaries in this unique collection comprise a remarkable personal and professional chronicle, shedding light on both the intellectual development of a great physicist and on the nature of scientific inquiry.
Author : Yupeng Yan
Publisher : World Scientific
ISBN 13 : 9812704817
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (127 download)
Download or read book Few-body Problems in Physics written by Yupeng Yan and published by World Scientific. This book was released on 2007 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Asia-Pacific Conferences on Few-Body Problems in Physics tackle cover the various aspects of few-body systems in physics, with high caliber contributions from internationally renowned researchers. Readers will gain a clear picture of the latest developments in the field in both the theoretical and experimental sectors.The scope of these proceedings covers research in the following areas: three-body forces and few-nucleon dynamics, hadron structure and QCD; exotic hadrons and atoms; effective field theory in few-body physics; electromagnetic and weak processes in few-body systems; few-body dynamics in atoms, molecules, Bose-Einstein condensates and quantum dots; few-body approaches to unstable nuclei, nuclear astrophysics and nuclear clustering aspects; and hypernuclear physics.
Author : Freeman J. Dyson
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
ISBN 13 : 9780821805619
Total Pages : 618 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Selected Papers of Freeman Dyson with Commentary written by Freeman J. Dyson and published by American Mathematical Soc.. This book was released on 1996 with total page 618 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a unique compilation of papers in mathematics and physics from Freeman Dyson's 50 years of activity and research. These are the papers that Dyson considers most worthy of preserving, and many of them are classics. The papers are accompanied by commentary explaining the context from which they originated and the subsequent history of the problems that either were solved or left unsolved. This collection offers a connected narrative of the developments in mathematics and physics in which the author was involved, beginning with his professional life as a student of G. H. Hardy.
Author : James Der Derian
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0197568203
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (975 download)
Download or read book Quantum International Relations written by James Der Derian and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-05-03 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this volume are motivated by a common apprehension and a common hope. The apprehension was first voiced by Einstein, who lamented the inability of humanity, at the individual and social level, to keep up with the increased speed of technological change brought about by the quantum revolution. As quantum science and technology fast forward into the 21st century, the social sciences remain stuck in classical, 19th century ways of thinking. Can such a mechanistic model of the mind and society possibly help us manage the fully realized technological potential of the quantum? That's where the hope appears: that perhaps quantum is not just a physical science, but a human science too. In Quantum International Relations, James Der Derian and Alexander Wendt gather rising scholars and leading experts to make the case for quantum approaches to world politics. As a fundamental theory of reality and enabler of new technologies, quantum now touches everything, with the potential to revolutionize how we conduct diplomacy, wage war, and make wealth. Contributors present the core principles of quantum mechanics--entanglement, uncertainty, superposition, and the wave function--as significant catalysts and superior heuristics for an accelerating quantum future. Facing a reality which no longer corresponds to an outdated Newtonian worldview of states as billiard balls, individuals as rational actors or power as objective interest, Der Derian and Wendt issue an urgent call for a new human science of quantum International Relations. At the centenary of the first quantum thought experiment in the 1920s, this book offers a diversity of explorations, speculations and approaches for understanding geopolitics in the 21st century.
Author : David Kaiser
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 039308230X
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival written by David Kaiser and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-06-27 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How the Hippies Saved Physics gives us an unconventional view of some unconventional people engaged early in the fundamentals of quantum theory. Great fun to read." —Anton Zeilinger, Nobel laureate in physics The surprising story of eccentric young scientists—among them Nobel laureates John Clauser and Alain Aspect—who stood up to convention and changed the face of modern physics. Today, quantum information theory is among the most exciting scientific frontiers, attracting billions of dollars in funding and thousands of talented researchers. But as MIT physicist and historian David Kaiser reveals, this cutting-edge field has a surprisingly psychedelic past. How the Hippies Saved Physics introduces us to a band of freewheeling physicists who defied the imperative to “shut up and calculate” and helped to rejuvenate modern physics. For physicists, the 1970s were a time of stagnation. Jobs became scarce, and conformity was encouraged, sometimes stifling exploration of the mysteries of the physical world. Dissatisfied, underemployed, and eternally curious, an eccentric group of physicists in Berkeley, California, banded together to throw off the constraints of the physics mainstream and explore the wilder side of science. Dubbing themselves the “Fundamental Fysiks Group,” they pursued an audacious, speculative approach to physics. They studied quantum entanglement and Bell’s Theorem through the lens of Eastern mysticism and psychic mind-reading, discussing the latest research while lounging in hot tubs. Some even dabbled with LSD to enhance their creativity. Unlikely as it may seem, these iconoclasts spun modern physics in a new direction, forcing mainstream physicists to pay attention to the strange but exciting underpinnings of quantum theory. A lively, entertaining story that illuminates the relationship between creativity and scientific progress, How the Hippies Saved Physics takes us to a time when only the unlikeliest heroes could break the science world out of its rut.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 404 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (117 download)
Download or read book The Publishers Weekly written by and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 404 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
