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Author:   Erwin Schrödinger
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 0.90cm , Length: 21.50cm
Weight:   0.260kg
ISBN:  

9781107431836

ISBN 10:   1107431832
Pages:   184
Publication Date:   06 November 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  General ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Foreword; Part I. Nature and the Greeks: 1. The motives for returning to ancient thought; 2. The competition, reason v. senses; 3. The Pythagoreans; 4. The Ionian enlightenment; 5. The religion of Xenophanes, Heraclitus of Ephesus; 6. The atomists; 7. What are the special features?; Part II. Science and Humanism: 1. The spiritual bearing of science on life; 2. The practical achievements of science tending to obliterate its true import; 3. A radical change in our ideas of matter; 4. Form, not substance, the fundamental concept; 5. The nature of our 'models'; 6. Continuous descriptions and causality; 7. The intricacy of the continuum; 8. The makeshift of wave mechanics; 9. The alleged breakdown of the barrier between subject and object; 10. Atoms or quanta – the counter-spell of old standing, to escape the intricacy of the continuum; 11. Would physical indeterminacy give free will a chance?; 12. The bar to prediction, according to Niels Bohr; Literature.

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Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger was one of the most distinguished scientists of the twentieth century.

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