Book ID: CBB458295199

David Bohm: Causality and Chance, Letters to Three Women (2017)

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Talbot, Chris (Author)


Springer


Publication Date: 2017
Physical Details: 456
Language: English

The letters transcribed in this book were written by physicist David Bohm to three close female acquaintances in the period 1950 to 1956. They provide a background to his causal interpretation of quantum mechanics and the Marxist philosophy that inspired his scientific work in quantum theory, probability and statistical mechanics. In his letters, Bohm reveals the ideas that led to his ground breaking book Causality and Chance in Modern Physics. The political arguments as well as the acute personal problems contained in these letters help to give a rounded, human picture of this leading scientist and twentieth century thinker.

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Review Christian Forstner (2020) Review of "David Bohm: Causality and Chance, Letters to Three Women". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 213-214). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Eckert, Michael
Martinez, Jean-Philippe
Philippe Stamenkovic
Kunihisa Morita
Artin, Tom
Bustamante, M. C.
Concepts
Quantum mechanics
Physics
Quantum theory
Science and society
Causality
Marxism
Time Periods
20th century, early
20th century
Ancient
21st century
19th century
Places
Copenhagen (Denmark)
Greece
Germany
France
Soviet Union
Munich (Germany)
Institutions
Munich. Universität
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