Constitutions of Matter
Subtitle: Mathematically Modeling the Most Everyday of Physical Phenomena
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: April 28, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780226453057
Subjects: Mathematical modelling; PHYSICS; Science / Physics; Mathematical Physics; Science; Science/Mathematics
First sentence: People make models of the world, to some extent formal and mathematical, ones that show initial promise of being good representations of the world as we come to know it.