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This book assembles 21 essays on the history of mechanics and mathematical physics written by David Speiser. Covering a period from the beginning of the seventeenth century to the eighteenth, the essays discuss developments in elasticity, rigid bodies, gravitation, the principle of relativity, optics, and first principles. They examine the work of Galileo, Huygens, Newton, Leibniz, the Bernoullis, Euler, Maupertuis, and Lambert.
Preface 1. Introduction 1.1. Strategies of Demonstration 1.2. Errors and Endings 1.3. Presuppositions and the Scope of Experimental Autonomy 1.4. Overview 2. From Aggregates to Atoms 2.1. History versus Statistics 2.2. The Apparatus of Averages 2.3. Molecular Magnets 2.4. The Electron 2.5. Einstein's Experiment 2.6. Einstein's Presuppositions 2.7. The Forgotten Influence of Terrestrial Magnetism 2.8. Expectations Defied 2.9. Ducks, Rabbits, and Errors 2.10. The Scylla and Charybdis of Ending an Experiment 3. Particles and Theories 3.1. Particles One by One 3.2. Millikan's Cosmic Rays 3.3. Beliefs behind the "Birth Cry of Atoms" 3.4. Contesting Instruments and Theories 3.5. Testing Quantum Me...
This volume consists of the scientific work presented at the 14th Regional Conference on Mathematical Physics, held in November 2015 in Islamabad, Pakistan, and dedicated to the memory of Riazuddin, the first Pakistani PhD student of the late Nobel laureate, Abdus Salam, and one of the pioneers who developed physics in Pakistan.This collection surveys the latest developments in a wide area of mathematical physics as presented by world-renowned experts. The contributors sample a number of topics including the formal aspects of mathematical physics, general relativity and cosmology, particle physics, astrophysics, string theory, black hole physics, quantum gravity, quantum field theory, condensed matter physics, symmetries in mathematics and physics, and even applied physics.