Physics and Necessity: Rationalist Pursuits From the Cartesian Past to the Quantum Present

Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press (2014)
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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 of quantum mechanics from natural axioms

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