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Physics and necessity: rationalist pursuits from the Cartesian past to the quantum present

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 the world, and finishing with recent derivations...

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Autor principal: Darrigol, Olivier
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198712886.001.0001
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