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Constitutions of Matter: Mathematically Modeling the Most Everyday of Physical Phenomena Hardcover - 1997 - 1st Edition
by Martin H. Krieger
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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.
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In this insightful work, Martin H. Krieger shows what physicists are really doing behind the nearly impenetrable cloud of mathematical models they use as research tools. He argues that the technical details of these complex calculations serve not only as a means to an end, but also reveal key aspects of the physical properties they model. Using two tours de force of modern physics as case studies - proofs that ordinary matter is stable, and solutions to the Ising model of a phase transition (how a liquid freezes to a solid, for instance) - Krieger uncovers the philosophical foundations on which the mathematical models of these phenomena are built. In so doing, he gives the reader a better feel not just for how physicists believe the natural world is structured, but also for how they have arrived at those conclusions. Krieger's lucid discussions will help students of physics and applied mathematics appreciate the larger physical issues behind the mathematical details of modern physics. Historians and philosophers of science will gain deeper insights into how theoretical physicists do science, while technically advanced general readers will get a rare, behind-the-scenes glimpse into the world of modern physics.
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- Title Constitutions of Matter: Mathematically Modeling the Most Everyday of Physical Phenomena
- Author Martin H. Krieger
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 366
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University of Chicago Press, Chicago
- Date January 1, 1997
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated, Index
- ISBN 9780226453040 / 0226453049
- Weight 1.35 lbs (0.61 kg)
- Dimensions 9.25 x 6.34 x 1.17 in (23.50 x 16.10 x 2.97 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Mathematical physics, Matter - Constitution - Mathematical models
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96016986
- Dewey Decimal Code 530
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