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This book explores the premise that a physical theory is an interpretation of the analyticöcanonical formalism. Throughout the text, the investigation stresses that classical mechanics in its Lagrangian formulation is the formal backbone of theoretical physics. The authors start from a presentation of the analyticöcanonical formalism for classical mechanics, and its applications in electromagnetism, Schrödinger's quantum mechanics, and field t...

Stories of a boy in his early teens and of a family deeply involved in Brazilian politics.

This book combines a fluent narrative, romance-like, of the history of the Costa Doria family in Brazil since colonial times. Highlights are a discussion of the legends surrounding the Genoese d'Oria family and a full presentation of the history of the Lost City in the Bahia hinterland in Brazil, a mystery that begins with this family. A full genealogy is also included.

This book explores the premise that a physical theory is an interpretation of the analytico-canonical formalism. Throughout the text, the investigation stresses that classical mechanics in its Lagrangian formulation is the formal backbone of theoretical physics. The authors start from a presentation of the analytico-canonical formalism for classical mechanics, and its applications in electromagnetism, Schrödinger's quantum mechanics, and field...

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This volume presents essays by pioneering thinkers including Tyler Burge, Gregory Chaitin, Daniel Dennett, Barry Mazur, Nicholas Humphrey, John Searle and Ian Stewart. Together they illuminate the very foundations of science and the scientific enterprise. The authors examine, from various perspectives, the complex relations between reality per se and our human descriptions of the world, as deduced in the process of scientific discovery. Are we...

Current mathematical models are notoriously unreliable in describing the time evolution of unexpected social phenomena, from financial crashes to revolution. Can such events be forecast? Can we compute probabilities about them? Can we model them? This book investigates and attempts to answer these questions through Gödel's two incompleteness theorems, and in doing so demonstrates how influential Gödel is in modern logical and mathematical thin...