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Unifying scientific theories : = physical concepts and mathematical structures /

紀錄類型:	書目-語言資料,印刷品 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Unifying scientific theories :/ Margaret Morrison.
其他題名:	physical concepts and mathematical structures /
作者:	Morrison, Margaret,
面頁冊數:	1 online resource (viii, 272 pages) :digital, PDF file(s). :
附註:	Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
標題:	Unified field theories. -
電子資源:	https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511527333
ISBN:	9780511527333 (ebook)

Unifying scientific theories : = physical concepts and mathematical structures /
Morrison, Margaret,1954-

Unifying scientific theories :physical concepts and mathematical structures /Margaret Morrison. - 1 online resource (viii, 272 pages) :digital, PDF file(s).

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

The Many Faces of Unity.1.

This book is about the methods used for unifying different scientific theories under one all-embracing theory. The process has characterized much of the history of science and is prominent in contemporary physics; the search for a 'theory of everything' involves the same attempt at unification. Margaret Morrison argues that, contrary to popular philosophical views, unification and explanation often have little to do with each other. The mechanisms that facilitate unification are not those that enable us to explain how or why phenomena behave as they do. A feature of this book is an account of many case studies of theory unification in nineteenth- and twentieth-century physics and of how evolution by natural selection and Mendelian genetics were unified into what we now term evolutionary genetics.

ISBN: 9780511527333 (ebook)Subjects--Topical Terms:

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Unified field theories.

LC Class. No.: QC794.6.G7 / M67 2000

Dewey Class. No.: 530.14/2

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