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Encounters with Einstein: And Other Essays on People, Places, and Particles: And Other Essays on People, Places and Particles (Princeton Science Library)
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In nine essays and lectures composed in the last years of his life, Werner Heisenberg offers a bold appraisal of the scientific method in the twentieth century--and relates its philosophical impact on contemporary society and science to the particulars of molecular biology, astrophysics, and related disciplines. Are the problems we define and pursue freely chosen according to our conscious interests? Or does the historical process itself determine which phenomena merit examination at any one time? Heisenberg discusses these issues in the most far-ranging philosophical terms, while illustrating them with specific examples.
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #415318 in Books
- Published on: 1989-10-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 152 pages
Customer Reviews
A great insight of what lies behind quantum mechanics' birth
This is not a mathematical book,but a wonderful description of what was going on during the years between 1920-1930.It tells about the discoveries that led to quantum mechanics, hou they turned up and the kind of bitter feeling that used to leave even in the scientist who found them.A book that shows that physics is not just a formula...
