The Pursuit of Reality : Narrative History of the Quantum and the Great Minds That Made it /

In a highly accessible style, this book presents a narrative history of the quantum theory with the new developments that intrigue all inquisitive minds. Quantum theory is counter-intuitive and sometimes downright weird. Even Nobel Laureate physicists like Richard Feynman admit that they do not unde...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Bayın, Selçuk Ş. (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2023.
Edition:	1st ed. 2023.
Subjects:	Quantum physics. Mathematics. Mathematical physics. Quantum Physics. Applications of Mathematics. Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

1. The Quest For Knowledge
2. Perpetual Motion Dream
3. Born Rebellious
4. Atoms and Radioactivity
5. Revolution Within Revolution
6. Schr¨odiger's Wave Mechanics
7. Complementarity Embraces Particles and Waves
8. Sixth Solvay Conference and Titans Meet Again
9. Einstein at Princeton
10. Bohm's Hidden Variables and Bell's Inequality
11. The Gist of Quantum Mechanics
12. Can We Ever Hope to Understand Quantum Mechanics?
13. Navigating Between the Classical and the Quantum Worlds
14. Mathematics, Physics, and Nature.