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A Survey of Physics: A Collection of Lectures and EssaysAuthor: Max PlanckPublisher: Minkowski Institute PressPublication Date: January 08, 2020Number of Pages: 162 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Believing Weird Things is a somewhat playful response to the author happening upon a book by Michael Shermer entitled Why People Believe Weird Things. It may be read as a set of skeptical exercises...

This book is roughly divided in three parts. The first one is a general introduction to theories with extra dimensions and, more specifically, to brane worlds. Both old-fashioned topics (such as...

Author: Erwin Schr?dingerPublisher: Minkowski Institute PressPublication Date: May 21, 2020Number of Pages: 255 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1927763800ISBN-13: 9781927763803

Robert Geroch's lecture notes on differential geometry reflect his original and successful style of teaching - explaining abstract concepts with the help of intuitive examples and many figures. The...

Dopamine Machine offers a comprehensive interdisciplinary examination of cognitive neuroscience, evolutionary psychology, and contemporary social dynamics. The work employs a holistic approach to...

This book is about spacetime, and how, in General Relativity, it performs its widely accepted role of explaining all the phenomena of gravity. Space and time have long been contentious presences in...

To mark the 100th anniversary of Einstein's general relativity the Minkowski Institute Press publishes the first English translation of a very rare book on general relativity (its only Russian...

The greatest mystery in the world is its very existence. In our intellectual development, we all reach a turning point when we start asking the perennial existential questions: "What is the world?";...

Robert Geroch's lecture notes on general relativity are unique in three main respects. First, the physics of general relativity and the mathematics, which describes it, are masterfully intertwined in...

Geroch's lecture notes on geometrical quantum mechanics are divided into three parts - Differential Geometry, Mechanics, and Quantum Mechanics. The necessary geometrical ideas are presented in the...

Robert Geroch's lecture notes "Infinite-Dimensional Manifolds" provide a concise, clear, and helpful introduction to a wide range of subjects, which are essential in mathematical and theoretical...

The book is engaged with the argumentation of original theses, as well as with putting forward theoretical reconstructions, which provide a new outlook at Kant's philosophical legacy concerning his...

Lectures on Physics and the Nature of Scientific KnowledgeAuthor: Erwin Schr?ingerPublisher: Minkowski Institute PressPublication Date: Jun 16, 2020Number of Pages: 134 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

The perspective unfolded and defended here is a philosophical theory of art grounded in particular understandings of the creative process, aesthetic experience, and interpretive practice. The...

The electromagnetic fields which are currently observed in the Universe are characteristic for clearly macroscopic systems and can be analyzed within the framework of Maxwell's theory of...

Author: Hendrik Antoon LorentzPublisher: Minkowski Institute PressPublication Date: Dec 27, 2021Number of Pages: 114 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1989970737ISBN-13: 9781989970737

If the talented Russian physicist Alexander Alexandrovich Friedmann had to be introduced with a single sentence, the most appropriate sentence would be the title of his biography translated from the...

The subject of computation deals with solutions to mathematical problems by procedures, i.e., solutions that could be generated by a machine; that require no original thought. For which problems are...

Positivism and the Real External World & Positivism and RealismAuthor: Moritz SchlickPublisher: Minkowski Institute PressPublication Date: Jul 18, 2020Number of Pages: 83 pagesLanguage:...

This handbook serves as a supportive resource for higher education courses in communication sciences and language proficiency. While it is not intended to be exhaustive, it focuses on theories and...

This doctoral thesis analytically and numerically examines some of the most important concepts in quantum correlations in low-dimensional physics: entanglement and out-of-equilibrium dynamics.As John...

This volume contains new publications of two important works that have never been published together and are two firsts: (i) A. S. Eddington's Report on the Relativity Theory of Gravitation (2ed,...

Research on the Theory of QuantaAuthor: Louis De Broglie, Vesselin PetkovPublisher: Minkowski Institute PressPublication Date: January 18, 2021Number of Pages: 154 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Scientific Autobiography and Selected Lectures on Theoretical PhysicsAuthor: Max PlanckPublisher: Minkowski Institute PressPublication Date: January 27, 2020Number of Pages: 202 pagesLanguage:...

This Thesis deals with recent progress regarding singularities in General Relativity. Singularities are predicted by the theory, but raise difficult problems, because they make the usual equations to...

Space and Time: Philosophical ProblemsAuthor: Anguel S StefanovPublisher: Minkowski Institute PressPublication Date: January 06, 2020Number of Pages: 146 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

This volume contains selected peer-reviewed papers presented at the Third Hermann Minkowski Meeting on the Foundations of Spacetime Physics (11-14 September 2023, Albena, Bulgaria) organized by the...

Author: Hermann MinkowskiPublisher: Minkowski Institute PressPublication Date: Mar 20, 2020Number of Pages: 213 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 192776386XISBN-13: 9781927763865

The Foundations of Geometry: Works on Non-Euclidean GeometryAuthor: Nikolai I. LobachevskyPublisher: Minkowski Institute PressPublication Date: October 02, 2019Number of Pages: 210 pagesLanguage:...