The Odd Quantum
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: October 7, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780691103006
Subjects: Popular science; Quantum physics (quantum mechanics); Quantum Theory; Science; Science/Mathematics; General; History of Science and Medicine, Philosophy of Science; Mathematics; Physics; Science / Physics
First sentence: In the physics section of the University of Chicago catalog for 1898-99, one reads the following: While it is never safe to affirm that the future of the Physical Sciences has no marvels in store even more astonishing than those of the past, it seems probable that most of the grand underlying principles have been firmly established and that further advances are to be sought chiefly in the rigorous application of these principles to all the phenomena which come under our notice... .