Physics and Necessity

Physics and Necessity

Rationalist Pursuits from the Cartesian Past to the Quantum Present

by Olivier Darrigol

400 pages· 2014· ISBN 9780198712886
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Can we prove the necessity of our best physical theories by rational means, without appeal to experience? This book recounts a few ingenious attempts to derive physical theories by reason only, beginning with Descartes' geometric construction of the world, and finishing with recent derivations of quantum mechanics from natural axioms. It should be of great interest to anyone concerned with the foundations of physics and its broader philosophical interpretation.

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