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D??rr, Detlef |
Quantum Physics Without Quantum Philosophy |
I06171 |
2013 |
eBook |
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| 92 |
Plotnitsky, Arkady |
Epistemology and Probability |
I05983 |
2010 |
eBook |
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| 93 |
Renn, J??rgen |
The Genesis of General Relativity |
I05789 |
2007 |
eBook |
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| 94 |
Boniolo, Giovanni |
The Role of Mathematics in Physical Sciences |
I05526 |
2005 |
eBook |
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| 95 |
Pauli, Wolfgang |
Writings on Physics and Philosophy |
I05368 |
1994 |
eBook |
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| 96 |
R??dei, Mikl??s |
Quantum Logic in Algebraic Approach |
I05307 |
1998 |
eBook |
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| 97 |
M??ller-Markus, S |
Protophysik |
I04948 |
1971 |
eBook |
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| 98 |
Onnes, Heike Kamerlingh |
Through Measurement to Knowledge |
I04519 |
1991 |
eBook |
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| 99 |
de la Pe??a, Luis |
The Quantum Dice |
I04116 |
1996 |
eBook |
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Hoekzema, D.J |
The Quantum Labyrinth |
I03913 |
1993 |
eBook |
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| Title | Quantum Physics Without Quantum Philosophy |
| Author(s) | D??rr, Detlef;Goldstein, Sheldon;Zangh??, Nino |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2013. |
| Description | XVIII, 286 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | It has often been claimed that without drastic conceptual innovations a genuine explanation of quantum interference effects and quantum randomness is impossible. This book concerns Bohmian mechanics, a simple particle theory that is a counterexample to such claims. The gentle introduction and other contributions collected here show how the phenomena of non-relativistic quantum mechanics, from Heisenberg's uncertainty principle to non-commuting observables, emerge from the Bohmian motion of particles, the natural particle motion associated with Schr??dinger's equation. This book will be of value to all students and researchers in physics with an interest in the meaning of quantum theory as well as to philosophers of science |
| ISBN,Price | 9783642306907 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. Philosophy and science
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| Title | Epistemology and Probability : Bohr, Heisenberg, Schr??dinger, and the Nature of Quantum-Theoretical Thinking |
| Author(s) | Plotnitsky, Arkady |
| Publication | New York, NY, Springer New York, 2010. |
| Description | XXXIV, 402 p. 2 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Quantum mechanics, discovered by Werner Heisenberg and Erwin Schr??dinger in 1925-1926, is famous for its radical implications for our conception of physics and for our view of human knowledge in general. While these implications have been seen as scientifically productive and intellectually liberating to some, Niels Bohr and Heisenberg, among them, they have been troublesome to many others, including Schr??dinger and, most famously, Albert Einstein. The situation led to the intense debate that started in the wake of its discovery and has continued into our own time, with no end appearing to be in sight. Epistemology and Probability aims to contribute to our understanding of quantum mechanics and of the reasons for its extraordinary impact by reconsidering, under the rubric of "nonclassical epistemology," the nature of epistemology and probability, and their relationships in quantum theory. The book brings together the thought of the three figures most responsible for the rise of quantum mechanics???Heisenberg and Schr??dinger, on the physical side, and Bohr, on the philosophical side???in order to develop a deeper sense of the physical, mathematical, and philosophical workings of quantum-theoretical thinking. Reciprocally, giving a special emphasis on probability and specifically to the Bayesian concept of probability allows the book to gain new insights into the thought of these figures. The book reconsiders, from this perspective, the Bohr-Einstein debate on the epistemology of quantum physics and, in particular, offers a new treatment of the famous experiment of Einstein, Podolsky, and Rosen (EPR), and of the Bohr-Einstein exchange concerning the subject. It also addresses the relevant aspects of quantum information theory and considers the implications of its epistemological argument for higher-level quantum theories, such as quantum field theory and string and brane theories. One of the main contributions of the book is its analysis of the role of mathematics in quantum theory and in the thinking of Bohr, Heisenberg, and Schr??dinger, in particular an examination of the new (vis-??-vis classical physics and relativity) type of the relationships between mathematics and physics introduced by Heisenberg in the course of his discovery of quantum mechanics. Although Epistemology and Probability is aimed at physicists, philosophers and historians of science, and graduate and advanced undergraduate students in these fields, it is also written with a broader audience in mind and is accessible to readers unfamiliar with the higher-level mathematics used in quantum theory |
| ISBN,Price | 9780387853345 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. Elementary particles (Physics)
4. Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory
5. EPISTEMOLOGY
6. Philosophy and science
7. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
8. PROBABILITIES
9. Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes
10. QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
11. QUANTUM PHYSICS
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| Title | The Genesis of General Relativity : Sources and Interpretations |
| Author(s) | Renn, J??rgen |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 2007. |
| Description | VIII, 619 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This four-volume work represents the most comprehensive documentation and study of the creation of general relativity; one of the fundamental physical theories of the 20th century. It comprises key sources from Einstein and others who from the late 19th to the early 20th century contributed to this monumental development. Some of these sources are presented here in translation for the first time. Einstein???s famous Zurich notebook, which documents the pivotal steps toward general relativity, is reproduced here for the first time and transcribed in its entirety. The volumes offer detailed commentaries and analyses of these sources that are based on a close reading of these documents supplemented by interpretations by the leading historians of relativity. All in all, the facets of this work, based on more than a decade of research, combine to constitute one of the most in-depth studies of a scientific revolution ever written |
| ISBN,Price | 9781402040009 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Classical and Quantum Gravitation, Relativity Theory
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. EPISTEMOLOGY
5. GRAVITATION
6. HISTORY
7. HISTORY OF SCIENCE
8. PHILOSOPHY
9. Philosophy and science
10. PHILOSOPHY OF NATURE
11. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
12. Philosophy, general
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| Title | The Role of Mathematics in Physical Sciences : Interdisciplinary and Philosophical Aspects |
| Author(s) | Boniolo, Giovanni;Budinich, Paolo;Trobok, Majda |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 2005. |
| Description | X, 244 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Even though mathematics and physics have been related for centuries and this relation appears to be unproblematic, there are many questions still open: Is mathematics really necessary for physics, or could physics exist without mathematics? Should we think physically and then add the mathematics apt to formalise our physical intuition, or should we think mathematically and then interpret physically the obtained results? Do we get mathematical objects by abstraction from real objects, or vice versa? Why is mathematics effective into physics? These are all relevant questions, whose answers are necessary to fully understand the status of physics, particularly of contemporary physics. The aim of this book is to offer plausible answers to such questions through both historical analyses of relevant cases, and philosophical analyses of the relations between mathematics and physics |
| ISBN,Price | 9781402031076 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. HISTORY
4. History of Mathematical Sciences
5. Mathematical Methods in Physics
6. MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
7. MATHEMATICS
8. Philosophy and science
9. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
10. PHYSICS
11. Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics
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| Title | Writings on Physics and Philosophy |
| Author(s) | Pauli, Wolfgang;Enz, Charles P;Meyenn, Karl v |
| Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 1994. |
| Description | VI, 290 p. 27 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Like Bohr, Einstein and Heisenberg, Wolfgang Pauli was not only a Nobel laureate and one of the creators of modern physics, but also an eminent philosopher of modern science. This is the first book in English to include all his famous articles on physics and epistemology. They were actually translated during Pauli's lifetime by R. Schlapp and are now edited and annotated by Pauli's former assistant Ch. Enz. Pauli writes about the philosophical significance of complementarity, about space,time and causality, symmetry and the exclusion principle, but also about therole of the unconscious in modern science. His famous article on Kepler is included as well as many historical essays on Bohr, Ehrenfest,and Einstein as well as on the influence of the unconscious on scientific theories. The book addresses not only physicists, philosophers and historians of science, but also the general public |
| ISBN,Price | 9783662029947 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
4. Philosophy and science
5. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
6. PHYSICS
7. QUANTUM PHYSICS
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| Title | Quantum Logic in Algebraic Approach |
| Author(s) | R??dei, Mikl??s |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1998. |
| Description | X, 243 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This work has grown out of the lecture notes that were prepared for a series of seminars on some selected topics in quantum logic. The seminars were delivered during the first semester of the 1993/1994 academic year in the Unit for Foundations of Science of the Department of History and Foundations of Mathematics and Science, Faculty of Physics, Utrecht University, The Netherlands, while I was staying in that Unit on a European Community Research Grant, and in the Center for Philosophy of Science, University of Pittsburgh, U. S. A. , where I was staying during the 1994/1995 academic year as a Visiting Fellow on a Fulbright Research Grant, and where I also was supported by the Istvan Szechenyi Scholarship Foundation. The financial support provided by these foundations, by the Center for Philosophy of Science and by the European Community is greatly acknowledged, and I wish to thank D. Dieks, the professor of the Foundations Group in Utrecht and G. Massey, the director of the Center for Philosophy of Science in Pittsburgh for making my stay at the respective institutions possible. I also wish to thank both the members of the Foundations Group in Utrecht, especially D. Dieks, C. Lutz, F. Muller, J. Uffink and P. Vermaas and the participants in the seminars at the Center for Philosophy of Science in Pittsburgh, especially N. Belnap, J. Earman, A. Janis, J. Norton, and J |
| ISBN,Price | 9789401590266 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. Elementary particles (Physics)
4. Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory
5. FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS
6. MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
7. Philosophy and science
8. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
9. QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
10. QUANTUM PHYSICS
11. Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics
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| Title | Through Measurement to Knowledge : The Selected Papers of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes 1853???1926 |
| Author(s) | Onnes, Heike Kamerlingh;Gavroglu, K;Goudaroulis, Yorgos |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1991. |
| Description | CXVI, 576 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | "Tile; D'apC:Tile; l. DpWTa ()coi 7rpo7rapod)w ?? D'T}K,mi'. "between us and Goodness the gods have placed the sweat of our brows". This quote from Isiodos, the first lyrical poet, is jotted on a sheet of paper found among the papers of Heike Kamerlingh Onnes at the Boerhaave Museum, Leiden. On this same sheet, one can also read quotes from Schiller, Goethe, Shakespeare, Homer, Pindar and Dante. Each quote is for somebody or something. It appears to have been a game played at least by Ehrenfest and Crommelin -an unmistakable sign of these two physicists's deep culture. This particular quote was for the "Werkplaats", the Physical Laboratory of the University of Leiden. Our purpose in putting together the Selected Papers of its first Director, Kamerlingh Onnes (1853-1926), is to try and articulate the dominant trends of a different type of culture at Leiden: its physics culture during the years that established low temperature physics as a distinct branch of physics. Our aims in choosing the particular papers are threefold. First, we wish to present the interconnectedness among the different research programs of Kamerlingh Onnes and to bring out the decisive role of the work initiated by van der Waals in determining the direction of nearly all of these research programs |
| ISBN,Price | 9789400920798 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. HISTORY
4. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
5. History, general
6. Philosophy and science
7. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
8. PHYSICS
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| Title | The Quantum Dice : An Introduction to Stochastic Electrodynamics |
| Author(s) | de la Pe??a, Luis;Cetto, A.M |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1996. |
| Description | XVI, 512 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | In spite of the impressive predictive power and strong mathematical structure of quantum mechanics, the theory has always suffered from important conceptual problems. Some of these have never been solved. Motivated by this state of affairs, a number of physicists have worked together for over thirty years to develop stochastic electrodynamics, a physical theory aimed at finding a conceptually satisfactory, realistic explanation of quantum phenomena. This is the first book to present a comprehensive review of stochastic electrodynamics, from its origins to present-day developments. After a general introduction for the non-specialist, a critical discussion is presented of the main results of the theory as well as of the major problems encountered. A chapter on stochastic optics and some interesting consequences for local realism and the Bell inequalities is included. In the final chapters the authors propose and develop a new version of the theory that brings it in closer correspondence with quantum mechanics and sheds some light on the wave aspects of matter and the linkage with quantum electrodynamics. Audience: The volume will be of interest to scholars and postgraduate students of theoretical and mathematical physics, foundations and philosophy of physics, and teachers of theoretical physics and quantum mechanics, electromagnetic theory, and statistical physics (stochastic processes) |
| ISBN,Price | 9789401587235 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. COMPLEX SYSTEMS
2. DYNAMICAL SYSTEMS
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
6. Philosophy and science
7. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
8. QUANTUM PHYSICS
9. STATISTICAL PHYSICS
10. Statistical Physics and Dynamical Systems
11. Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics
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| Title | The Quantum Labyrinth |
| Author(s) | Hoekzema, D.J |
| Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1993. |
| Description | XVI, 281 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | At the outset of the research leading to this book I held a position somewhere close to 'the standard Copenhagen interpretation' of QM. I was strongly attracted to, in particular, the philosophy of Niels Bohr. However, being aware of some of the problematic sides and ambiguities of his views and of new developments which have taken place in QM after his time, the main challenge would be to develop a more up to date version version of his approach and express it in a philosophically unobjectionable way. Traces of this original attitude can still be found in views I hold nowadays. For instance, I think that I now know a satisfactory and correct way of dealing with features like 'complementarity', and I still see this as a relevant subject. In many other respects, however, there have been major changes in my position. In fact, during certain stages of my research my views simply started moving and kept on doing so at an irritating pace and for uncomfortably long periods of time. I learned, for example that at least some of the classical ideas about theory structure are much better than I had realized, and cannot just be pushed aside for anything even as impressive as empirical success |
| ISBN,Price | 9789401117777 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. Elementary particles (Physics)
4. Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory
5. LOGIC
6. Philosophy and science
7. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
8. QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
9. QUANTUM PHYSICS
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