Physics and Necessity: Rationalist Pursuits from the Cartesian Past to the Quantum Present by Olivier Darrigol

Physics and Necessity: Rationalist Pursuits from the Cartesian Past to the Quantum Present

Olivier Darrigol

416 pages • missing pub info (editions)

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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 t...

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