Erwin Schrodinger

Author : John Gribbin
Publisher : Random House
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781446465714

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Erwin Schrodinger and the Quantum Revolution by John Gribbin Pdf

Erwin Schrödinger was an Austrian physicist famous for his contribution to quantum physics. He won the Nobel Prize in 1933 and is best known for his thought experiment of a cat in a box, both alive and dead at the same time, which revealed the seemingly paradoxical nature of quantum mechanics. Schrödinger was working at one of the most fertile and creative moments in the whole history of science. By the time he started university in 1906, Einstein had already published his revolutionary papers on relativity. Now the baton of scientific progress was being passed to a new generation: Werner Heisenberg, Paul Dirac, Niels Bohr, and of course, Schrödinger himself. In this riveting biography John Gribbin takes us into the heart of the quantum revolution. He tells the story of Schrödinger's surprisingly colourful life (he arrived for a position at Oxford University with both his wife and mistress). And with his trademark accessible style and popular touch, he explains the fascinating world of quantum mechanics, which underpins all of modern science.

Author : Erwin Schrödinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Biology
ISBN : UOM:39015002296260

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What is Life? the Physical Aspect of the Living Cell & Mind and Matter by Erwin Schrödinger Pdf

Author : Erwin Schrödinger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781107604667

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What is Life? by Erwin Schrödinger Pdf

"What Is Life?" is Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger's exploration of the question which lies at the heart of biology. His essay, "Mind and Matter," investigates what place consciousness occupies in the evolution of life, and what part the state of development of the human mind plays in moral questions. "Autobiographical Sketches" offers a fascinating fragmentary account of his life as a background to his scientific writings.

Author : Erwin Schrödinger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2008-11-27
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781316025215

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My View of the World by Erwin Schrödinger Pdf

A Nobel prize winner, a great man and a great scientist, Erwin Schrödinger has made his mark in physics, but his eye scans a far wider horizon: here are two stimulating and discursive essays which summarize his philosophical views on the nature of the world. Schrödinger's world view, derived from the Indian writings of the Vedanta, is that there is only a single consciousness of which we are all different aspects. He admits that this view is mystical and metaphysical and incapable of logical deduction. But he also insists that this is true of the belief in an external world capable of influencing the mind and of being influenced by it. Schrödinger's world view leads naturally to a philosophy of reverence for life.

Author : Walter John Moore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1994-08-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0521469341

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A Life of Erwin Schrödinger by Walter John Moore Pdf

Biography of the Austrian physicist

Author : Paul Halpern
Publisher : Basic Books
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2015-04-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780465040650

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Einstein's Dice and Schrödinger's Cat by Paul Halpern Pdf

"A fascinating and thought-provoking story, one that sheds light on the origins of . . . the current challenging situation in physics." -- Wall Street Journal When the fuzzy indeterminacy of quantum mechanics overthrew the orderly world of Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein and Erwin Schröger were at the forefront of the revolution. Neither man was ever satisfied with the standard interpretation of quantum mechanics, however, and both rebelled against what they considered the most preposterous aspect of quantum mechanics: its randomness. Einstein famously quipped that God does not play dice with the universe, and Schröger constructed his famous fable of a cat that was neither alive nor dead not to explain quantum mechanics but to highlight the apparent absurdity of a theory gone wrong. But these two giants did more than just criticize: they fought back, seeking a Theory of Everything that would make the universe seem sensible again. In Einstein's Dice and Schröger's Cat, physicist Paul Halpern tells the little-known story of how Einstein and Schröger searched, first as collaborators and then as competitors, for a theory that transcended quantum weirdness. This story of their quest-which ultimately failed-provides readers with new insights into the history of physics and the lives and work of two scientists whose obsessions drove its progress. Today, much of modern physics remains focused on the search for a Theory of Everything. As Halpern explains, the recent discovery of the Higgs Boson makes the Standard Model-the closest thing we have to a unified theory- nearly complete. And while Einstein and Schröger failed in their attempt to explain everything in the cosmos through pure geometry, the development of string theory has, in its own quantum way, brought this idea back into vogue. As in so many things, even when they were wrong, Einstein and Schröger couldn't help but get a great deal right.

Author : Erwin Schrödinger
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780821835241

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Collected Papers on Wave Mechanics by Erwin Schrödinger Pdf

The famous equation that bears Erwin Schrödinger's name encapsulates his profound contributions to quantum mechanics using wave mechanics. This third, augmented edition of his papers on the topic contains the six original, famous papers in which Schrödinger created and developed the subject of wave mechanics as published in the original edition. As the author points out, at the time each paper was written the results of the later papers were largely unknown to him. This edition also contains three papers that were written shortly after the original edition was published and four lectures delivered by Schrödinger at the Royal Institution in London in 1928. The papers and lectures in this volume were revised by the author and translated into English, and afford the reader a striking and valuable insight into how wave mechanics developed.

Author : Erwin Schrödinger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-11-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781107431836

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'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism' by Erwin Schrödinger Pdf

The text of two series of lectures given by one of the great philosopher-scientists of the twentieth century.

Author : Keith K. Niall
Publisher : Springer
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-05
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319646213

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Erwin Schrödinger's Color Theory by Keith K. Niall Pdf

This book presents the most complete translation to date of Erwin Schrödinger’s work on colorimetry. In his work Schrödinger proposed a projective geometry of color space, rather than a Euclidean line-element. He also proposed new (at the time) colorimetric methods – in detail and at length - which represented a dramatic conceptual shift in colorimetry. Schrödinger shows how the trichromatic (or Young-Helmholtz) theory of color and the opponent-process (or Hering) theory of color are formally the same theory, or at least only trivially different. These translations of Schrödinger’s bold concepts for color space have a fresh resonance and importance for contemporary color theory.

Author : Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht,Robert B. Laughlin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : History
ISBN : 0804769168

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What is Life? by Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht,Robert B. Laughlin Pdf

In this volume, four leading American scientists and humanists unfold the controversial potential of Schrödinger's thought.

Author : Walter Moore
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 529 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781107569911

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Schrodinger by Walter Moore Pdf

This is a biography of the great scientist, Erwin Schrödinger (author of What is Life?), which draws upon recollections of his family and friends, as well as on contemporary records, diaries and letters. It aims to reveal the fundamental motives that drove him.

Author : Michel Bitbol,O. DARRIGOL (Ed)
Publisher : Atlantica Séguier Frontières
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Physics
ISBN : 2863321161

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Erwin Schrodinger by Michel Bitbol,O. DARRIGOL (Ed) Pdf

Author : Erwin Schrödinger
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1944
Category : Statistical mechanics
ISBN : UOM:39015017229751

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Statistical Thermodynamics by Erwin Schrödinger Pdf

Author : Johann Götschl
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789401124287

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Erwin Schrödinger’s World View by Johann Götschl Pdf

Erwin Schrödinger is one of the greatest figures of theoretical physics, but there is another side to the man: not only did his work revolutionize physics, it also radiacally changed the foundations of our modern worldview, modern biology, philosophy of science, philosophy of the mind, and epistemology. This book explores the lesser-known aspects of Schrödinger's thought, revealing the physicist as a philosopher and polymath whose highly original ideas anticipated the current merging of the natural and the social sciences and the humanities. Thirteen renowned scientists and philosophers have contributed to the volume. Part I reveals the philosophical importance of Schrödinger's work as a physicist. Part II examines his theory of life and of the self-organization of matter. Part III shows how Schrödinger's ideas have influenced contemporary philosophy of nature and our modern view of the world, drawing a fascinating picture of the ongoing synthesis of nature and culture: one of the most interesting developments of modern thought. The volume also contains the most comprehensive bibliography of Schrödinger's scientific work, making it at the same time a book of acute contemporary relevance and a major work of reference.

Author : Erwin 1887-1961 Schrödinger
Publisher : Hassell Street Press
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1014611806

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Mind and Matter. -- by Erwin 1887-1961 Schrödinger Pdf

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