Etienne Klein, Marc Lachieze-Rey

The Quest for Unity

The Adventure of Physics
Übersetzer: Reisinger, Axel

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Mai 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 163mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 435g
• ISBN-13: 9780195120851
• ISBN-10: 019512085X
• Artikelnr.: 21090588

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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