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The Quantum Dissidents: Rebuilding the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (1950-1990)
Olival Freire Junior
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Description for The Quantum Dissidents: Rebuilding the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (1950-1990)
Hardcover. Num Pages: 356 pages, 12 black & white illustrations, 14 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PDA; PDX; PHQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 242 x 25. Weight in Grams: 696.
This book tells the fascinating story of the people and events behind the turbulent changes in attitudes to quantum theory in the second half of the 20th century. The huge success of quantum mechanics as a predictive theory has been accompanied, from the very beginning, by doubts and controversy about its foundations and interpretation. This book looks in detail at how research on foundations evolved after WWII, when it was revived, until the mid 1990s, when most of this research merged into the technological promise of quantum information. It is the story of the quantum dissidents, the scientists who brought ... Read more
This book tells the fascinating story of the people and events behind the turbulent changes in attitudes to quantum theory in the second half of the 20th century. The huge success of quantum mechanics as a predictive theory has been accompanied, from the very beginning, by doubts and controversy about its foundations and interpretation. This book looks in detail at how research on foundations evolved after WWII, when it was revived, until the mid 1990s, when most of this research merged into the technological promise of quantum information. It is the story of the quantum dissidents, the scientists who brought ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Weight
720g
Number of Pages
356
Place of Publication
Berlin, Germany
ISBN
9783662446614
SKU
V9783662446614
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Ref
99-15
About Olival Freire Junior
Olival Freire, Jr. is a physicist and historian of physics. He is Associate Professor and Researcher at the Universidade Federal da Bahia, president of the Brazilian Society for the History of Science and vice-president of the Commission for the History of Modern Physics, International Union of History and Philosophy of Science.
Reviews for The Quantum Dissidents: Rebuilding the Foundations of Quantum Mechanics (1950-1990)
A considerable amount of the content of this book has been published before in the form of articles, some of them coauthored. ... Among its other merits, then, The Quantum Dissidents may spur further investigations into what distinguishes work on the foundations of physics from just doing physics and what it takes for a type of scientific research to lie ... Read more