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Physics and Philosophy: The Revolution in Modern Science.

15 reviews
Werner Heisenberg

Harpercollins College Div, 1958

Just get it...
If quantum mechanics and all of its philosophical implications tickles your fancy, BUY THIS BOOK! Heisenberg jumps off the pages with an eloquence long forgotten in our day.

The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory

6 reviews
Werner Heisenberg

Dover Publications, 1930

Heisenberg's motivation
Not really for beginners in spite of appearances, this book sketches Heisenberg's path in discovering the canonical commutation rules of quantum mechanics. After trying unsuccessfully for years to quantize the helium atom via the Bohr-Sommerfeld quantization rules (which attempt Einstein had already explained in 1917 to be hopeless, because the classical 3-body problem is nonintegrable), ...

Encounters with Einstein

4 reviews
Werner Heisenberg

Princeton University Press, 1989

Essays from Heisenberg's Later Years, 1972-1975
These essays were first published by Seabury Press in 1983 under the title Tradition in Science. A new edition, titled Encounters with Einstein And Other Essays on People, Places, and Particles, was published in 1989 by Princeton University Press. Throughout his life Werner Heisenberg shared his enthusiasm for physics and philosophy, frequently giving presentations to general audiences. Several ...

The Physical Principles of the Quantum Theory
Werner Heisenberg

Dover, 1930

Philosophical Problems of Quantum Physics

4 reviews
Werner Heisenberg

Ox Bow Press, 1979

Was Heisenberg a great physicist? CERTAINLY!
I have always thought of physics as the most marvelous branch of science. It is the field which has granted us Laplace's demon, Pauli's exclusion, Heisenberg's uncertainty, Schroedinger's cat, Wigner's friend, the Copenhagen interpretation and Everett's quantum universes (among other conceptions). At the center of it all, where the boundaries of physics and philosophy overlap, we find the ...

Across the Frontiers

2 reviews
Werner Heisenberg

Ox Bow Press, 1990

This book contains the most moving description of discovery!!!
I do not understand why the person from Cardiff only gave it 3 stars. Even the most distinguished physicists of all time have commented upon a page in this book which falls in the same vein as people like Beethoven being satisfied with the 9th at its end. Consider these lines "I concentrated on demonstrating that the conservation law held, and one evening I reached the point where I was ready to ...

Physics and beyond;: Encounters and conversations (World perspectives)

4 reviews
Werner Heisenberg

Harper & Row, 1971

Incredible Book. Mind in Motion of a Great Scientist.
Werner Heisenberg is the one great, if not provocative figures of the 20th. century Science. Famous for his Uncertainty Principle and formulation of Quantum Mechanics. Unfortunately, the two great great theories of the 20th. century science, quantum theory and relavity theory was formulated in Central Europe during the two World Wars. Heisenberg, born in 1901 was a witness to the World War I, ...