Quantum Generations
Subtitle: A History of Physics in the Twentieth Century
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: March 4, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 508
ISBN-13: 9780691095523
Subjects: History of science; History of specific subjects; Popular science; 20th century; History Of Physics; Science; Science/Mathematics; History; PHYSICS; History of Science and Medicine, Philosophy of Science; Mathematics; Science / History
First sentence: THE PHILOSOPHER and mathematician Alfred North Whitehead once referred to the last quarter of the nineteenth century as "an age of successful scientific orthodoxy, undisputed by much though beyond the conventions.