Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science (Unwin University Books)

Werner Heisenberg

Allen& Unwin

Traces the history of quantum theory and its relation to the development of Western philosophical ideas and natural sciences

Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Harper-Torchbooks

Physics and Beyond: Encounters and Conversations (World Perspectives Series, Vol. 42)

Harper&Row

230 page paperback book published in 1975.

Across the Frontier (World Perspectives, Volume 48)

Harper Torchbooks; Harper & Row Publishers

Nobel Prize-winning German physicist Werner Heisenberg (1901-1976) is known for the development of quantum mechanics and the principle of indeterminancy. In physics and Philosophy he explains how modern advances in science alter, and often destroy, traditional ways only when the philosophical assumptions embedded in scientific method allow for modifications when new evidence emerges. Scientific advances alone do not change a culture when it is stripped of the new knowlage that accompanies the new science.

Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science (Penguin Science)

Science & Math

History & Philosophy

Penguin Books, Ltd.

Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science (Pelican)

Gesammelte Werke-Collected Works (Original Scientific Papers Abteilung/Series A, Teil/Part 1) (English, German and French Edition)

Physics

Springer, Verlag

The contributions of few contemporary scientists have been as far reaching in their effects as those of Nobel Laureate Werner Heisenberg. His matrix theory is one of the bases of modern quantum mechanics, while his "uncertainty principle" has altered our whole philosophy of science. In this classic, based on lectures delivered at the University of Chicago, Heisenberg presents a complete physical picture of quantum theory. He covers not only his own contributions, but also those of Bohr, Dirac, Bose, de Broglie, Fermi, Einstein, Pauli, Schrodinger, Somerfield, Rupp, ·Wilson, Germer, and others in a text written for the physical scientist who is not a specialist in quantum theory or in modern mathematics. Partial contents: introduction (theory and experiment, fundamental concepts); critique of physical concepts of the corpuscular theory (uncertainty relations and their illustration); critique of the physical concepts of the wave theory (uncertainty relations for waves, discussion of an actual measurement of the electromagnetic field); statistical interpretation of quantum theory (mathematical considerations, interference of probabilities, Bohr's complementarity); discussion of important experiments (C. T. R. Wilson, diffraction , Einstein-Rupp, emission, absorption and dispersion of radiation, interference and conservation laws, Compton effect, radiation fluctuation phenomena, relativistic formulation of the quantum theory). An 80-page appendix on the mathematical apparatus of the quantum theory is provided for the specialist.

The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory

Dover Publications

Quantentheorie und Philosophie: Vorlesungen u. Aufsätze (Universal Bibliothek ; Nr. 9948) (German Edition)

Reclam

Ordnung der Wirklichkeit

Piper

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