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1 Plotnitsky, Arkady Reality Without Realism I11936 2021 eBook  
2 Wiescher, Michael Arthur E. Haas - The Hidden Pioneer of Quantum Mechanics I11781 2021 eBook  
3 Talbot, Chris Boris Hessen: Physics and Philosophy in the Soviet Union, 1927???1931 I11764 2021 eBook  
4 Aguirre, Anthony Undecidability, Uncomputability, and Unpredictability I11665 2021 eBook  
5 Beck, Christian Local Quantum Measurement and Relativity I11663 2021 eBook  
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TitleReality Without Realism : Matter, Thought, and Technology in Quantum Physics
Author(s)Plotnitsky, Arkady
PublicationCham, Springer International Publishing, 2021.
DescriptionXXXI, 331 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color : online resource
Abstract NoteThis book presents quantum theory as a theory based on new relationships among matter, thought, and experimental technology, as against those previously found in physics, relationships that also redefine those between mathematics and physics in quantum theory. The argument of the book is based on its title concept, reality without realism (RWR), and in the corresponding view, the RWR view, of quantum theory. The book considers, from this perspective, the thinking of Bohr, Heisenberg, Schr??dinger, and Dirac, with the aim of bringing together the philosophy and history of quantum theory. With quantum theory, the book argues, the architecture of thought in theoretical physics was radically changed by the irreducible role of experimental technology in the constitution of physical phenomena, accordingly, no longer defined independently by matter alone, as they were in classical physics or relativity. Or so it appeared. For, quantum theory, the book further argues, made us realize that experimental technology, beginning with that of our bodies, irreducibly shapes all physical phenomena, and thus makes us rethink the relationships among matter, thought, and technology in all of physics
ISBN,Price9783030845780
Keyword(s)1. EBOOK 2. EBOOK - SPRINGER 3. Elementary particles (Physics) 4. Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory 5. Foundations of Physics and Cosmology 6. MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS 7. PHILOSOPHY OF PHYSICS 8. Physics???Philosophy 9. QUANTUM FIELD THEORY 10. SCIENCE 11. Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics
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TitleArthur E. Haas - The Hidden Pioneer of Quantum Mechanics : A Biography
Author(s)Wiescher, Michael
PublicationCham, Springer International Publishing, 2021.
DescriptionXVII, 560 p. 181 illus., 114 illus. in color : online resource
Abstract NoteThe book highlights the personal and scientific struggles of Arthur Erich Haas (1884-1941), an Austrian Physicist from a wealthy Jewish middle-class family, whose remarkable accomplishments in a politically hostile but scientifically rewarding environment deserve greater recognition. Haas was a fellow student of both Lise Meitner and Erwin Schr??dinger and was also one of the last doctoral students of Ludwig Boltzmann. Following Boltzmann's suicide, Haas was forced to submit a more independent doctoral thesis in which he postulated new approaches in early quantum theory, actually introducing the idea of the Bohr radius before Niels Bohr. It is the lost story of a trailblazer in the fields of quantum mechanics and cosmology, a herald of nuclear energy and applications of modern science. This biography of Haas is based on new and previously unpublished family records and archived material from the Vienna Academy of Science and the University of Notre Dame, which the author has collected over many years. From his analysis of the letters, documents, and photos that rested for nearly a century in family attics and academic archives, Michael Wiescher provides a unique and detailed insight into the life of a gifted Jewish physicist during the first half of the twentieth century. It also sheds light on the scientific developments and thinking of the time. It appeals not only to historians and physicists, but also general readers. All appreciate the record of Haas??? interactions with many of the key figures who helped to found modern physics
ISBN,Price9783030806064
Keyword(s)1. Astronomers???Biography 2. Biographies of Physicists and Astronomers 3. EBOOK 4. EBOOK - SPRINGER 5. Foundations of Physics and Cosmology 6. History of Physics and Astronomy 7. Jewish History 8. Judaism???History 9. Physicists???Biography 10. Physics???History 11. QUANTUM PHYSICS 12. SCIENCE
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TitleBoris Hessen: Physics and Philosophy in the Soviet Union, 1927???1931 : Neglected Debates on Emergence and Reduction
Author(s)Talbot, Chris;Pattison, Olga
PublicationCham, Springer International Publishing, 2021.
DescriptionIX, 169 p. 7 illus., 1 illus. in color : online resource
Abstract NoteThis book presents key works of Boris Hessen, outstanding Soviet philosopher of science, available here in English for the first time. Quality translations are accompanied by an editors' introduction and annotations. Boris Hessen is known in history of science circles for his ???Social and Economic Roots of Newton???s Principia??? presented in London (1931), which inspired new approaches in the West. As a philosopher and a physicist, he was tasked with developing a Marxist approach to science in the 1920s. He studied the history of physics to clarify issues such as reductionism and causality as they applied to new developments. With the philosophers called the ???Dialecticians???, his debates with the opposing ???Mechanists??? on the issue of emergence are still worth studying and largely ignored in the many recent works on this subject. Taken as a whole, the book is a goldmine of insights into both the foundations of physics and Soviet history
ISBN,Price9783030700454
Keyword(s)1. Astronomers???Biography 2. Biographies of Physicists and Astronomers 3. EBOOK 4. EBOOK - SPRINGER 5. Europe, Eastern???History 6. Foundations of Physics and Cosmology 7. History of Physics and Astronomy 8. Marxian school of sociology 9. Marxist Sociology 10. PHILOSOPHY OF PHYSICS 11. Physicists???Biography 12. Physics???History 13. Physics???Philosophy 14. Russia???History 15. Russian, Soviet, and East European History 16. SCIENCE 17. Soviet Union???History
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TitleUndecidability, Uncomputability, and Unpredictability
Author(s)Aguirre, Anthony;Merali, Zeeya;Sloan, David
PublicationCham, Springer International Publishing, 2021.
DescriptionVIII, 180 p. 27 illus., 17 illus. in color : online resource
Abstract NoteFor a brief time in history, it was possible to imagine that a sufficiently advanced intellect could, given sufficient time and resources, in principle understand how to mathematically prove everything that was true. They could discern what math corresponds to physical laws, and use those laws to predict anything that happens before it happens. That time has passed. G??del???s undecidability results (the incompleteness theorems), Turing???s proof of non-computable values, the formulation of quantum theory, chaos, and other developments over the past century have shown that there are rigorous arguments limiting what we can prove, compute, and predict. While some connections between these results have come to light, many remain obscure, and the implications are unclear. Are there, for example, real consequences for physics ??? including quantum mechanics ??? of undecidability and non-computability? Are there implications for our understanding of the relations between agency, intelligence, mind, and the physical world? This book, based on the winning essays from the annual FQXi competition, contains ten explorations of Undecidability, Uncomputability, and Unpredictability. The contributions abound with connections, implications, and speculations while undertaking rigorous but bold and open-minded investigation of the meaning of these constraints for the physical world, and for us as humans
ISBN,Price9783030703547
Keyword(s)1. Computability and Recursion Theory 2. COMPUTABLE FUNCTIONS 3. EBOOK 4. EBOOK - SPRINGER 5. Foundations of Physics and Cosmology 6. MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS 7. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE 8. PROBABILITIES 9. PROBABILITY THEORY 10. RECURSION THEORY 11. SCIENCE 12. Science???Philosophy 13. Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics
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TitleLocal Quantum Measurement and Relativity
Author(s)Beck, Christian
PublicationCham, Springer International Publishing, 2021.
DescriptionXIII, 392 p. 13 illus : online resource
Abstract NoteThis book treats various aspects of the quantum theory of measurement, partially in a relativistic framework. Measurement(-like) processes in quantum theory are identified and analysed; and the quantum operator formalism is derived in full generality without postulating operators as observables. Consistency conditions are derived, expressing the requirement of Lorentz-frame independence of outcomes of spacelike separated measurements and implying the impossibility of using quantum nonlocality to send signals faster than light. Local commutativity is scrutinized. The localization problem of relativistic quantum theory is studied, including comprehensive derivation of the theorems of Hegerfeld, Malament and Reeh-Schlieder. Finally, the quantum formalism is derived from the dynamics of particles with definite positions in Bohmian mechanics
ISBN,Price9783030675332
Keyword(s)1. EBOOK 2. EBOOK - SPRINGER 3. Foundations of Physics and Cosmology 4. QUANTUM PHYSICS 5. SCIENCE 6. SPECIAL RELATIVITY 7. Special relativity (Physics)
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