The Quest for Unity

The Adventure of Physics

Etienne Klein, Marc Lachieze-Rey (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

176 Seiten

1999
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-512085-1 (ISBN)

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The authors, a quantum physicist and an astrophysicist, present and comment on the successive unifications that have marked the advances in physics. The book provides a discourse on the nature of elegance and beauty in physics, explaining why beauty is a reliable guide in the search for Truth.

Quantum physicist Etienne Klein and astrophysicist Marc Lachieze-Rey present and comment on the successive unifications that have marked the fundamental advances in physics. A good deal of modern theoretical physics is lightly and gracefully explained, rooted in a philosophical examination of the motivations that drive physicists and physics. The book is a discourse on the nature of elegance and beauty in physics, seeking to explain how and why beauty is a reliable guide in the ongoing search for Truth in physics.

Etienne Klein and Marc Lachieze-Rey are both scientists with the Atomic Energy Commission in Sacey, France. Axel Reisinger is a scientist at Sanders, a Lockheed Martin Company, in Nashua, New Hampshire.

Introduction ; The Greek Conceptions of Unity ; The Official Birth of Physics ; The History of Physics: A Series of Unifications ; Modern Unifications ; The Unity of Physics ; Dreams of Unity at the Close of the Twentieth Century ; Conclusion

Übersetzer	Axel Reisinger
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 236 mm
Gewicht	431 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Technikgeschichte
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geschichte der Mathematik
	Naturwissenschaften ► Physik / Astronomie
ISBN-10	0-19-512085-X / 019512085X
ISBN-13	978-0-19-512085-1 / 9780195120851
Zustand	Neuware