Historical Roots of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking: Steps Towards an Analogy by Gaudenzi, Rocco

Historical Roots of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking: Steps Towards an Analogy (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9783030998943)

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Historical Roots of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking: Steps Towards an Analogy by Gaudenzi, Rocco

Historical Roots of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking: Steps Towards an Analogy

$54.99
Historical Roots of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking: Steps Towards an Analogy by Gaudenzi, Rocco

Historical Roots of Spontaneous Symmetry Breaking: Steps Towards an Analogy

$54.99
Format: Paperback
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What are the thinking processes and knowledge resources involved in a complex discovery? How can the physics of solids, the physics of nuclei, and elementary particle physics cross-fertilise in spite of the widely differing domains and energy scales they deal with? This book addresses the questions by reconstructing and examining from the historical epistemological perspective the fascinating heuristic path to the concept of spontaneous symmetry breaking. This analysis especially brings to light the role that analogical reasoning and mathematical reformulations played in the discovery process, as well as the influence of the Japanese milieu and approach to physical problems.

Author: Rocco Gaudenzi
ISBN-10: 3030998940
ISBN-13: 9783030998943
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 04/29/2022
Pages: 131
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.31d
By Rocco Gaudenzi
By Rocco Gaudenzi
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After a high-school degree in Classics, Rocco Gaudenzi earned his Master and Doctoral degree in physics at the ETH Zurich and the Delft University of Technology, publishing in the fields of solid-state physics, quantum magnetism and the thermodynamics of information processing. He has then moved on to do research on the conceptual dynamics, historical and philosophical dimensions of science. At the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science in Berlin he carried out an investigation on the flow of concepts and formalisms between modern low-energy physics and high-energy physics, and the two-way analogical transfer of mathematical methods and theoretical frameworks.

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