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Home, Dipankar; Whitaker, Andrew - Einstein's Struggles with Quantum Theory - 9780387715193 - V9780387715193
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Einstein's Struggles with Quantum Theory

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Description for Einstein's Struggles with Quantum Theory Hardback. Presents an account of various aspects of Einstein's achievements in quantum theory, his own views, and the progress his work has stimulated since his death. Num Pages: 370 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PHQ. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 164 x 29. Weight in Grams: 718.

Einstein’s Struggles with Quantum Theory: A Re-Appraisal, presents an account of all aspects of Einstein’s encounter with quantum theory. Until recently it was accepted that, after important early work, Einstein was simply unable to follow Niels Bohr’s approach to quantum theory, and that Einstein’s own views, centered on realism, were of no interest. This book follows modern scholarship arguing that Einstein’s arguments were well constructed, in the Einstein-Bohr debate his position was legitimate, and his pragmatic approach to realism stimulated John Bell and encouraged the emergence of quantum information theory. The book provides a readable account of Einstein’s achievements in ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
370
Condition
New
Number of Pages
370
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9780387715193
SKU
V9780387715193
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About Home, Dipankar; Whitaker, Andrew
Dipankar Home is Professor of Physics at Bose Institute, Calcutta. Over the past two decades he has been working extensively on the fundamental aspects of quantum mechanics, especially on topics related to entanglement and quantum nonlocality, quantum communications, the measurement problem, quantum Zeno effect, quantum time distributions and nonstandard interpretations of quantum mechanics such as the Bohmian model. One area ... Read more

Reviews for Einstein's Struggles with Quantum Theory
From the reviews: "The book is serious, competent, and most engaging. Its declared aim is a reappraisal of Einstein’s critical attitude toward quantum theory. … I recommend Einstein’s Struggles with Quantum Theory to physicists who are interested in their past and to historians and philosophers who are curious about today’s quantum physics." (Tilman Sauer, Physics ... Read more

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