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Navarro Veguillas, Luis |
The Lesser-Known Albert Einstein |
I12861 |
2023 |
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Bargue??o, Pedro |
The Geroch-Held-Penrose Calculus |
I12839 |
2023 |
eBook |
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Oloff, Rainer |
The Geometry of Spacetime |
I12629 |
2023 |
eBook |
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Waldrop, M. Mitchell |
Cosmic Origins |
I12514 |
2022 |
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Tumulka, Roderich |
Foundations of Quantum Mechanics |
I12334 |
2022 |
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| 6 |
Gouttenoire, Yann |
Beyond the Standard Model Cocktail |
I12254 |
2022 |
Book |
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Plotnitsky, Arkady |
Reality Without Realism |
I11936 |
2021 |
eBook |
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Wiescher, Michael |
Arthur E. Haas - The Hidden Pioneer of Quantum Mechanics |
I11781 |
2021 |
eBook |
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Talbot, Chris |
Boris Hessen: Physics and Philosophy in the Soviet Union, 1927???1931 |
I11764 |
2021 |
eBook |
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Aguirre, Anthony |
Undecidability, Uncomputability, and Unpredictability |
I11665 |
2021 |
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| Title | The Lesser-Known Albert Einstein : Without a Trace of Relativity |
| Author(s) | Navarro Veguillas, Luis |
| Publication | Cham, 1. Imprint: Springer
2. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. |
| Description | XXII, 362 p. 19 illus., 4 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book highlights the numerous important contributions that Einstein made to physics???aside from his relativity theories???and places each of his achievements in the corresponding context, referring en route to the original sources. There are very few publications devoted to Einstein's work outside of relativity. This book aims to fill the gap by exploring the scope of Einstein's contributions on topics including molecular forces, thermostatistics, the photoelectric effect, Brownian motion, molecular currents, critical opalescence, energy quanta, dual structure of radiation, introduction of the photon, and the formulation of the first quantum statistics. The book pays special attention to Einstein's scepticism toward certain ideas that came to light alongside Schr??dinger's first formulation of wave mechanics in 1926, also addressing his doubts regarding the probabilistic interpretation of the quantum formalism, an issue closely connected with the hidden variable theories and their implications. The author discusses the early hidden variable theories, whose appearance was largely a result of Einstein's criticism of the orthodox interpretation of quantum formalism. Finally, in an appendix, the author explores the controversy about the possible contribution that Mileva Mari?, Albert Einstein's first wife, may have made to some of her husband's main scientific achievements |
| ISBN,Price | 9783031355684 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Astronomers
2. Biographies of Physicists and Astronomers
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. Foundations of Physics and Cosmology
5. History of Physics and Astronomy
6. Physicists
7. PHYSICS
8. QUANTUM PHYSICS
9. SCIENCE
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| Title | The Geroch-Held-Penrose Calculus : Fundamentals and Applications |
| Author(s) | Bargue??o, Pedro;Contreras, Ernesto |
| Publication | Cham, 1. Imprint: Springer
2. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2023. |
| Description | XVI, 70 p. 2 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book offers a primer on the fundamentals and applications of the Geroch-Held-Penrose (GHP) calculus, a powerful formalism designed for spacetimes that occur frequently in the teaching of General Relativity. Specifically, the book shows in detail the power of the calculus when dealing with spherically symmetric spacetimes. After introducing the basics, a new look at all the classical spherically symmetric black hole solutions is given within the GHP formalism. This is then employed to give new insights into the Tolman-Oppenheimer-Volkoff equations for stellar structure, including a derivation of new exact anisotropic fluid solutions. Finally, a re-writing of some essential features of black hole thermodynamics within the GHP formalism is performed. The book is based on the authors' lecture notes, used in their undergraduate and graduate lectures and while supervising their upper undergraduate and graduate students. To fully benefit from this concise primer, readers only need an undergraduate background in general relativity |
| ISBN,Price | 9783031429484 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK - SPRINGER
2. Foundations of Physics and Cosmology
3. GENERAL RELATIVITY
4. GENERAL RELATIVITY (PHYSICS)
5. GLOBAL ANALYSIS (MATHEMATICS)
6. Global Analysis and Analysis on Manifolds
7. Integral Transforms and Operational Calculus
8. Manifolds (Mathematics)
9. MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS
10. MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
11. SCIENCE
12. Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics
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| Title | The Geometry of Spacetime : A Mathematical Introduction to Relativity Theory |
| Author(s) | Oloff, Rainer |
| Publication | Cham, 1. Imprint: Springer
2. Springer International Publishing, 2023. |
| Description | XIX, 274 p. 50 illus., 1 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book systematically develops the mathematical foundations of the theory of relativity and links them to physical relations. For this purpose, differential geometry on manifolds is introduced first, including differentiation and integration, and special relativity is presented as tensor calculus on tangential spaces. Using Einstein's field equations relating curvature to matter, the relativistic effects in the solar system including black holes are discussed in detail. The text is aimed at students of physics and mathematics and assumes only basic knowledge of classical differential and integral calculus and linear algebra |
| ISBN,Price | 9783031161391 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. COSMOLOGY
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. Foundations of Physics and Cosmology
4. GENERAL RELATIVITY
5. GENERAL RELATIVITY (PHYSICS)
6. MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
7. SCIENCE
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| Title | Cosmic Origins : Science???s Long Quest to Understand How Our Universe Began |
| Author(s) | Waldrop, M. Mitchell |
| Publication | Cham, 1. Imprint: Springer
2. Springer International Publishing, 2022. |
| Description | XI, 152 p. 37 illus., 28 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | Cosmic Origins tells the story of how physicists and astronomers have struggled for more than a century to understand the beginnings of our universe, from its origins in the Big Bang to the modern day. The book will introduce the science as a narrative, by telling the story of the scientists who made each major discovery. It will also address and explain aspects of our theories that some cosmologists are still hesitant to accept, as well as gaps in our knowledge and even apparent inconsistencies in our measurements. Clearly written by a master of scientific exposition, this book will fascinate the curious general reader as well as providing essential background reading for college-level courses on physics and astronomy |
| ISBN,Price | 9783030982140 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. Astronomy, Observations and Techniques
2. Astronomy???Observations
3. Classical and Quantum Gravity
4. COSMOLOGY
5. EBOOK
6. EBOOK - SPRINGER
7. Foundations of Physics and Cosmology
8. GENERAL RELATIVITY
9. GENERAL RELATIVITY (PHYSICS)
10. GRAVITATION
11. History of Physics and Astronomy
12. Physics???History
13. SCIENCE
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| Title | Foundations of Quantum Mechanics |
| Author(s) | Tumulka, Roderich |
| Publication | Cham, 1. Imprint: Springer
2. Springer International Publishing, 2022. |
| Description | XVII, 468 p. 1 illus : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book introduces and critically appraises the main proposals for how to understand quantum mechanics, namely the Copenhagen interpretation, spontaneous collapse, Bohmian mechanics, many-worlds, and others. The author makes clear what are the crucial problems, such as the measurement problem, related to the foundations of quantum mechanics and explains the key arguments like the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen argument and Bell???s proof of nonlocality. He discusses and clarifies numerous topics that have puzzled the founding fathers of quantum mechanics and present-day students alike, such as the possibility of hidden variables, the collapse of the wave function, time-of-arrival measurements, explanations of the symmetrization postulate for identical particles, or the nature of spin. Several chapters are devoted to extending the different approaches to relativistic space-time and quantum field theory. The book is self-contained and is intended for graduate students and researchers who want to step into the fundamental aspects of quantum physics. Given its clarity, it is accessible also to advanced undergraduates and contains many exercises and examples to master the subject |
| ISBN,Price | 9783031095481 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. Foundations of Physics and Cosmology
4. Fundamental concepts and interpretations of QM
5. MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
6. Philosophical Foundations of Physics and Astronomy
7. PHILOSOPHY OF PHYSICS
8. Physics???Philosophy
9. QUANTUM PHYSICS
10. SCIENCE
11. Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics
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| Title | Beyond the Standard Model Cocktail : A Modern and Comprehensive Review of the Major Open Puzzles in Theoretical Particle Physics and Cosmology with a Focus on Heavy Dark Matter |
| Author(s) | Gouttenoire, Yann |
| Publication | Cham, 1. Imprint: Springer
2. Springer International Publishing, 2022. |
| Description | XXIII, 519 p. 91 illus., 82 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This book provides a remarkable and complete survey of important questions at the interface between theoretical particle physics and cosmology. After discussing the theoretical and experimental physics revolution that led to the rise of the Standard Model in the past century, the author reviews all the major open puzzles, among them the hierarchy problem, the small value of the cosmological constant, the matter-antimatter asymmetry, and the dark matter enigma, including the state-of-the-art regarding proposed solutions. Also addressed are the rapidly expanding fields of thermal dark matter, cosmological first-order phase transitions and gravitational-wave signatures. In addition, the book presents the original and interdisciplinary PhD research work of the author relating to Weakly-Interacting-Massive-Particles around the TeV scale, which are among the most studied dark matter candidates. Motivated by the absence of experimental evidence for such particles, this thesis explores the possibility that dark matter is much heavier than what is conventionally assumed |
| ISBN,Price | 9783031118623 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. COSMOLOGY
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. Foundations of Physics and Cosmology
5. PARTICLE PHYSICS
6. PARTICLES (NUCLEAR PHYSICS)
7. SCIENCE
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| Title | Reality Without Realism : Matter, Thought, and Technology in Quantum Physics |
| Author(s) | Plotnitsky, Arkady |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2021. |
| Description | XXXI, 331 p. 2 illus., 1 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This 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,Price | 9783030845780 |
| 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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| Title | Arthur E. Haas - The Hidden Pioneer of Quantum Mechanics : A Biography |
| Author(s) | Wiescher, Michael |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2021. |
| Description | XVII, 560 p. 181 illus., 114 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | The 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,Price | 9783030806064 |
| 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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| Title | Boris Hessen: Physics and Philosophy in the Soviet Union, 1927???1931 : Neglected Debates on Emergence and Reduction |
| Author(s) | Talbot, Chris;Pattison, Olga |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2021. |
| Description | IX, 169 p. 7 illus., 1 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | This 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,Price | 9783030700454 |
| 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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| Title | Undecidability, Uncomputability, and Unpredictability |
| Author(s) | Aguirre, Anthony;Merali, Zeeya;Sloan, David |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2021. |
| Description | VIII, 180 p. 27 illus., 17 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | For 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,Price | 9783030703547 |
| 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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