物理
What Do You Care What Other People Think? 豆瓣 Goodreads
作者: Richard P. Feynman W. W. Norton & Company 2001 - 1
The New York Times bestseller: sequel to "Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!" —funny, poignant, instructive. One of the greatest physicists of the twentieth century, Richard Feynman possessed an unquenchable thirst for adventure and an unparalleled ability to tell the stories of his life. "What Do You Care What Other People Think?" is Feynman’s last literary legacy, which he prepared as he struggled with cancer. Among its many tales—some funny, others intensely moving—we meet Feynman’s first wife, Arlene, who taught him of love’s irreducible mystery as she lay dying in a hospital bed while he worked nearby on the atomic bomb at Los Alamos. We are also given a fascinating narrative of the investigation of the space shuttle Challenger ’s explosion in 1986, and we relive the moment when Feynman revealed the disaster’s cause by an elegant experiment: dropping a ring of rubber into a glass of cold water and pulling it out, misshapen.
现代量子力学 豆瓣
Modern Quantum Mechanics
作者: J. J. Sakurai 世界图书出版公司 2006 - 1
本书作者Sakurai是一位杰出的理论物理学家和粒子物理学家。本书对于量力学概念的介绍与传统的做法不同,没有受制于量子力学发展的历史线索,力求从一开始就摆脱经典力学的束缚。它直接从量子力学特有的电子自旋的观测实验出发,围绕其状态的概率特征和叠加原理展开对于量子力学基本概念和基本原理的阐述。从空间平移、空间转动及时间演化等对称性变换出发,引入动量、角动量及哈密顿算符等基本力学量,讨论它们的本征值问题,它们的运动方程及与经典力学的关系,从而直接切入量子力学的核心问题。这种被称之为“用量子力学方式来思考”的做法贯穿全书,是本书最引入瞩目之处。
国内已经出版了不少高等量子力学的教材,但与之直接对应的国外教材却并不多见。本书从其设定的读者对象、它的选材范围以及其深度与广度来看,都非常适合这方面的要求。如果从双语教学角度来考虑,它无疑也是理想教材的候选者。
这个不科学的年代 豆瓣
作者: 理查·费曼 天下文化 2005
本書為費曼西雅圖華盛頓大學的三場演講內容整理而成的最新作品。他以獨特的幽默感與演講魅力,縱橫科學、社會、政治、宗教等議題;以縝密的推理和詳盡的論述,引領讀者充分認識科學的存在與人類未來的發展,讓你彷彿置身華盛頓大學演講現場,一睹二十世紀美國國寶科學家的風采。
書中讓讀者更深入走進費曼的思想之中,透過一位偉大科學家的視野,您將會以更寬廣的角度,重新觀察這個世界、重新思考自我、重新調整生活的態度。
The Grand Design 豆瓣 Goodreads
The Grand Design
作者: Stephen Hawking / Leonard Mlodinow Bantam 2010 - 9
《大设计》:宇宙何时并如何起始?我们为何在此?为何是有非无?何为实在本性?为何自然定律被这么精细地调谐至让我们这样的生命存在?以及最后,我们宇宙的表观“大设计”能否证实使事物运行的仁慈的造物主?科学能否提供另一种解释?有关宇宙起源以及生命本身的最基本的问题,曾经为哲学的范围,现在占据着科学家、哲学家和神学家相遇但却自说自话的领地。在霍金和蒙洛迪诺的新书中,他们以精彩简朴的非专业语言表述有关宇宙奥秘的最新的科学思考。他们在《大设计》中解释,根据量子论,宇宙不仅具有单独的存在或历史,而且同时存在每种可能的历史。把这种思想应用于宇宙整体,就对因果概念本身提出疑问。然而,霍金和蒙洛迪诺描述的“从顶到底”的宇宙学方法会说,过去没有采取确定的形式这一事实意味着,我们因观察历史而创造历史,而非历史创造我们。作者进一步解释,我们自身是宇宙极早期的量子涨落的产物,并且展现量子论如何预言“多宇宙”——该思想是说,我们的宇宙只不过是自发地从无中出现的许多宇宙中的一个,每个宇宙具有不同的自然定律。霍金和蒙洛迪诺在这过程中诘问实在的传统概念,提出“依赖模型”的实在论,这是我们能够希望找到的最佳答案。他们以对M理论的精彩评价来结束全书,M理论解释了制约我们和我们宇宙的定律,它还是完备的“万物理论”的目前可行的仅有候选者。他们写道,如果被证实的话,它将是爱因斯坦寻求的统一理论,也是人类理性的终极胜利。
这是一部简洁的惊人的附有大量插图的指南,导向正在改变我们的宇宙观并危及我们最神圣的信仰系统的一些发现。没有任何一本书像《大设计》这样信息丰富,这样刺激。
THE FIRST MAJOR WORK IN NEARLY A DECADE BY ONE OF THE WORLD’S GREAT THINKERS—A MARVELOUSLY CONCISE BOOK WITH NEW ANSWERS TO THE ULTIMATE QUESTIONS OF LIFE
When and how did the universe begin? Why are we here? Why is there something rather than nothing? What is the nature of reality? Why are the laws of nature so finely tuned as to allow for the existence of beings like ourselves? And, finally, is the apparent “grand design” of our universe evidence of a benevolent creator who set things in motion—or does science offer another explanation?
The most fundamental questions about the origins of the universe and of life itself, once the province of philosophy, now occupy the territory where scientists, philosophers, and theologians meet—if only to disagree. In their new book, Stephen Hawking and Leonard Mlodinow present the most recent scientific thinking about the mysteries of the universe, in nontechnical language marked by both brilliance and simplicity.
In The Grand Design they explain that according to quantum theory, the cosmos does not have just a single existence or history, but rather that every possible history of the universe exists simultaneously. When applied to the universe as a whole, this idea calls into question the very notion of cause and effect. But the “top-down” approach to cosmology that Hawking and
Mlodinow describe would say that the fact that the past takes no definite form means that we create history by observing it, rather than that history creates us. The authors further explain that we ourselves are the product of quantum fluctuations in the very early universe, and show how quantum theory predicts the “multiverse”—the idea that ours is just one of many universes that appeared spontaneously out of nothing, each with different laws of nature.
Along the way Hawking and Mlodinow question the conventional concept of reality, posing a “model-dependent” theory of reality as the best we can hope to find. And they conclude with a riveting assessment of M-theory, an explanation of the laws governing us and our universe that is currently the only viable candidate for a complete “theory of everything.” If confirmed, they write, it will be the unified theory that Einstein was looking for, and the ultimate triumph of human reason.
A succinct, startling, and lavishly illustrated guide to discoveries that are altering our understanding and threatening some of our most cherished belief systems, The Grand Design is a book that will inform—and provoke—like no other.
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哥德尔、艾舍尔、巴赫 豆瓣 Goodreads 谷歌图书 博客來
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
9.4 (83 个评分) 作者: [美国] 侯世达 译者: 严勇 / 刘皓明 商务印书馆 1996 - 4
集异璧-GEB,是数学家哥德尔、版画家艾舍尔、音乐家巴赫三个名字的前缀。《哥德尔、艾舍尔、巴赫书:集异璧之大成》是在英语世界中有极高评价的科普著作,曾获得普利策非小说奖。它通过对哥德尔的数理逻辑,艾舍尔的版画和巴赫的音乐三者的综合阐述,引人入胜地介绍了数理逻辑 学、可计算理 论、人工智能学、语言学、遗传学、音乐、绘画的理论等方面,构思精巧、含义深刻、视野广阔、富于哲学韵味。
中译本前后费时十余年,译者都是数学和哲学的专家,还得到原作者的直接参与,译文严谨通达,特别是在原作者的帮助下,把西方的文化典故和说法,尽可能转换为中国文化的典故和说法,使这部译本甚至可看作是一部新的创作,也是中外翻译史上的一个创举。
Science and Ultimate Reality 豆瓣
作者: Barrow, John D. (EDT)/ Davies, P. C. W. (EDT)/ Harper, Charles L. (EDT) Cambridge University Press 2004 - 6
This volume provides a fascinating snapshot of the future of physics, covering fundamental physics, at the frontiers of research. It comprises a wide variety of contributions from leading thinkers in the field, inspired by the pioneering work of John A. Wheeler. Quantum theory represents a unifying theme within the book, along with topics such as the nature of physical reality, the arrow of time, models of the universe, superstrings, gravitational radiation, quantum gravity and cosmic inflation. Attempts to formulate a final unification of physics are discussed, along with the existence of hidden dimensions of space, space-time singularities, hidden cosmic matter, and the strange world of quantum technology.
The Feynman Lectures on Physics including Feynman's Tips on Physics 豆瓣 Goodreads
作者: Richard P. Feynman / Robert B. Leighton Addison Wesley 2005 - 8
This revised edition of Feynman’s legendary lectures includes extensive corrections Feynman and his colleagues received and Caltech approved. This boxed set provides Volumes 1-3 together with Feynman’s Tips on Physics making this the complete and definitive set of The Feynman Lectures on Physics. For all readers interested in physics.
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自然哲学的数学原理 豆瓣
Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica
作者: 牛顿 译者: 赵振江 商务印书馆 2006 - 7
《自然哲学的数学原理》主要内容简介:我们把长期期待的新版牛顿的哲学奉献给您,善意的读者,它含有许多修订和增补。这一无与伦比的著作的主要内容,可从所附的目录中得知;增补和改动的内容在作者的序言中已给予指示。剩下要我们增加的是关于这一哲学的方法这方面的东西。
从事物理学研究的人大致可分为三类。其中的一些人给每一类事物赋予特别的且隐蔽的质,然后由此宣称每个物体的行为属于人所不知不识的方式。源自亚里士多德和逍遥学派的经院学派的整个教义基于此。的确他们断言每一种效果起源于物体的特别的性质;但他们没有教我们那些性质从何而来,因此他们什么也没有教。且因为他们全都关心事物的名称而不是事物本身,他们应被认为是发明了哲学谈论,而并未传习哲学。
所以,其他人希望通过抛弃这些无用的混杂的词汇,以辛勤的努力获得称誉。且因此他们以为所有的物质是同质的,在物体上被辨别出来的各种变形起源于构成它们的小部分的非常简单的和极容易理解的相互关系。如果他们不把小部分的原始的相互关系归之于自然所赋予的关系之外的关系,他们建立的从简单事物到更复杂的事物的进程是正确的。
The Scientist as Rebel Goodreads 豆瓣
作者: Freeman J. Dyson NYRB Classics 2007 - 3
An illuminating collection of essays by an award-winning scientist whom the London Times calls “one of the world’s most original minds.” From Galileo to today’s amateur astronomers, scientists have been rebels, writes Freeman Dyson. Like artists and poets, they are free spirits who resist the restrictions their cultures impose on them. In their pursuit of Nature’s truths, they are guided as much by imagination as by reason, and their greatest theories have the uniqueness and beauty of great works of art.Dyson argues that the best way to understand science is by understanding those who practice it. He tells stories of scientists at work, ranging from Isaac Newton’s absorption in physics, alchemy, theology, and politics, to Ernest Rutherford’s discovery of the structure of the atom, to Albert Einstein’s stubborn hostility to the idea of black holes. His descriptions of brilliant physicists like Edward Teller and Richard Feynman are enlivened by his own reminiscences of them. He looks with a skeptical eye at fashionable scientific fads and fantasies, and speculates on the future of climate prediction, genetic engineering, the colonization of space, and the possibility that paranormal phenomena may exist yet not be scientifically verifiable.Dyson also looks beyond particular scientific questions to reflect on broader philosophical issues, such as the limits of reductionism, the morality of strategic bombing and nuclear weapons, the preservation of the environment, and the relationship between science and religion. These essays, by a distinguished physicist who is also a lovely writer, offer informed insights into the history of science and fresh perspectives on contentious current debates about science, ethics, and faith.
Night Thoughts of a Classical Physicist 豆瓣
作者: Russell McCormmach Harvard University Press 1991 - 3
It is the end of an historical epoch, but to an old professor of physics, Victor Jakob, sitting in his unlighted study, eating dubious bread with jam made from turnips, it is the end of a way of thinking in his own subject. Younger men have challenged the classical world picture of physics and are looking forward to observational tests of Einstein's new theory of relativity as well as the creation of a quantum mechanics of the atom. It is a time of both apprehension and hope. In this remarkable book, the reader literally inhabits the mind of a scientist while Professor Jakob meditates on the discoveries of the past fifty years and reviews his own life and career--his scientific ambitions and his record of small successes. He recalls the great men who taught or inspired him: Helmholtz, Hertz, Maxwell, Planck, and above all Paul Drude, whose life and mind exemplified the classical virtues of proportion, harmony, and grace that Jakob reveres. In Drude's shocking and unexpected suicide, we see reflected Jakob's own bewilderment and loss of bearings as his once secure world comes to an end in the horrors of the war and in the cultural fragmentation wrought by twentieth-century modernism. His attempt to come to terms with himself, with his life in science, and with his spiritual legacy will affect deeply everyone who cares about the fragile structures of civilization that must fall before the onrush of progress.
The Perfect Theory 豆瓣
作者: Prof. Pedro G. Ferreira Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2014 - 2
At the core of Einstein’s general theory of relativity are a set of equations that explain the relationship among gravity, space, and time—possibly the most perfect intellectual achievement of modern physics. For over a century, physicists have been exploring, debating, and at times neglecting Einstein’s theory in their quest to uncover the history of the universe, the origin of time, and the evolution of solar systems, stars, and galaxies.
In this sweeping narrative of science and culture, Pedro Ferreira explains the theory through the human drama surrounding it: the personal feuds and intellectual battles of the biggest names in twentieth-century physics, from Einstein and Eddington to Hawking and Penrose.
We are in the midst of a momentous transformation in modern physics. As scientists look farther and more clearly into space than ever before, The Perfect Theory engagingly reveals the greater relevance of general relativity, showing us where it started, where it has led, and where it can still take us.
Mathematics and the Physical World 豆瓣
作者: Morris Kline Dover Publications 1981 - 3
Stimulating account of development of mathematics from arithmetic, algebra, geometry and trigonometry, to calculus, differential equations and non-Euclidean geometries. Also describes how math is used in optics, astronomy, motion under the law of gravitation, acoustics, electromagnetism, other phenomena. 147 illustrations.
The Book of Universes 豆瓣
作者: John D. Barrow W. W. Norton & Company 2011 - 6
Einstein's theory of general relativity opens the door to other universes, and weird universes at that: universes that allow time travel, universes where you can see the back of your head, universes that spin and bounce or multiply without limit. The Book of Universes gives us a stunning tour of these potential universes, introducing us along the way to the brilliant physicists and mathematicians who first revealed their startling possibilities. John D. Barrow explains the latest discoveries and ideas that physics and astronomy have to offer about our own universe, showing how these findings lead to the concept of the "multiverse" the Universe of all possible universes. New ideas force us to confront the possibility that our visible universe is a tiny region, governed by its own laws, within a Multiverse containing all the strange universes that could be an idea that is among the most exciting and revolutionary in all of modern science.
The Hidden Reality 豆瓣
作者: Brian Greene Knopf 2011 - 1
Greene takes the reader to the leading edge of thinking in some of the most exciting areas of theoretical physics. And, importantly, he does not try to blind the reader with whiz-bang declarations or to mislead by giving only one perspective on topics that are highly controversial. Greene explains, in plain English, why scientists are considering some pretty far-out sounding possibilities (other universes!), how these ideas might be tested, and why other scientists are fully opposed to such investigations. Greene makes his perspective clear (that some, not all, of these ideas can fall within the heart of science but that only experimental evidence can really make the case) while giving the reader ample room to come to his or her own conclusions.
The Next Fifty Years 豆瓣
作者: Brockman, John 编 Vintage 2002 - 5
A look at what science might, and might not, be able to do for us in the first half of the 21st century. A team of experts address the future in theory and in practice as well as examining the social and political ramifications of the strange new world to come.