Stephen G. Brush
Teoksen A history of modern planetary physics tekijä
Tekijän teokset
The kinetic theory of gases : an anthology of classic papers with historical commentary (2003) 7 kappaletta
Statistical physics and the atomic theory of matter : from Boyle and Newton to Landau and Onsager (1983) 6 kappaletta
The Kind of Motion We Call Heat: Statistical Physics and Irreversible Processes, vol. 2 (1986) 4 kappaletta
History in the Teaching of Physics: Proceedings of the International Working Seminar on the Role of the History of… (1973) 2 kappaletta
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Yleistieto
- Syntymäaika
- 1935-02-12
- Sukupuoli
- male
Jäseniä
Kirja-arvosteluja
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Tilastot
- Teokset
- 16
- Jäseniä
- 90
- Suosituimmuussija
- #205,795
- Arvio (tähdet)
- 3.3
- Kirja-arvosteluja
- 2
- ISBN:t
- 33
To my mind the most interesting aspect of these two volumes is that they show just how fallible real-world physicists are, in the sense that
* they happily publish explanations and theories that are obviously BS,
* they get confused about what should be trivial concepts, and
* they spend phenomenal amounts of time on fussy calculations that really don't warrant the effort.
All this is relevant wrt my attitude to current day QFT, where we see much
the same confusion; enormous mathematical effort yoked to miniscule philosophical effort.… (lisätietoja)