THIS excellent book gives a survey of a field which has come into great prominence during the present century for two quite different reasons. First, the theory of relativity has compelled physicists ...
A SIGN of the present-day tendency of mathematical thought is in the changed character of many of the books now produced. In the last few years almost all new books in pure mathematics have ...
In 1943, the German physicist Werner Heisenberg distracted himself from World War II by pondering a crisis in quantum theory. Predictions about how particles should behave were occasionally giving ...