Author: Chris Heunen
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191650315
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
New scientific paradigms typically consist of an expansion of the conceptual language with which we describe the world. Over the past decade, theoretical physics and quantum information theory have turned to category theory to model and reason about quantum protocols. This new use of categorical and algebraic tools allows a more conceptual and insightful expression of elementary events such as measurements, teleportation and entanglement operations, that were obscured in previous formalisms. Recent work in natural language semantics has begun to use these categorical methods to relate grammatical analysis and semantic representations in a unified framework for analysing language meaning, and learning meaning from a corpus. A growing body of literature on the use of categorical methods in quantum information theory and computational linguistics shows both the need and opportunity for new research on the relation between these categorical methods and the abstract notion of information flow. This book supplies an overview of how categorical methods are used to model information flow in both physics and linguistics. It serves as an introduction to this interdisciplinary research, and provides a basis for future research and collaboration between the different communities interested in applying category theoretic methods to their domain's open problems.
Quantum Physics and Linguistics
Author: Chris Heunen
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191650315
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
New scientific paradigms typically consist of an expansion of the conceptual language with which we describe the world. Over the past decade, theoretical physics and quantum information theory have turned to category theory to model and reason about quantum protocols. This new use of categorical and algebraic tools allows a more conceptual and insightful expression of elementary events such as measurements, teleportation and entanglement operations, that were obscured in previous formalisms. Recent work in natural language semantics has begun to use these categorical methods to relate grammatical analysis and semantic representations in a unified framework for analysing language meaning, and learning meaning from a corpus. A growing body of literature on the use of categorical methods in quantum information theory and computational linguistics shows both the need and opportunity for new research on the relation between these categorical methods and the abstract notion of information flow. This book supplies an overview of how categorical methods are used to model information flow in both physics and linguistics. It serves as an introduction to this interdisciplinary research, and provides a basis for future research and collaboration between the different communities interested in applying category theoretic methods to their domain's open problems.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191650315
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
New scientific paradigms typically consist of an expansion of the conceptual language with which we describe the world. Over the past decade, theoretical physics and quantum information theory have turned to category theory to model and reason about quantum protocols. This new use of categorical and algebraic tools allows a more conceptual and insightful expression of elementary events such as measurements, teleportation and entanglement operations, that were obscured in previous formalisms. Recent work in natural language semantics has begun to use these categorical methods to relate grammatical analysis and semantic representations in a unified framework for analysing language meaning, and learning meaning from a corpus. A growing body of literature on the use of categorical methods in quantum information theory and computational linguistics shows both the need and opportunity for new research on the relation between these categorical methods and the abstract notion of information flow. This book supplies an overview of how categorical methods are used to model information flow in both physics and linguistics. It serves as an introduction to this interdisciplinary research, and provides a basis for future research and collaboration between the different communities interested in applying category theoretic methods to their domain's open problems.
The Laws of Motion
Author: Linley Erin Hall
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 9781404204089
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
From soccer kicks to the flight of birds, anthology offers the latest thinking on principles of physics and how they manifest in everyday life.
Publisher: The Rosen Publishing Group, Inc
ISBN: 9781404204089
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
From soccer kicks to the flight of birds, anthology offers the latest thinking on principles of physics and how they manifest in everyday life.
The Trouble with Physics
Author: Lee Smolin
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618551057
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780618551057
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 420
Book Description
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Physics Envy
Author: Peter Middleton
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022629000X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-301) and index.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 022629000X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 329
Book Description
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-301) and index.
Interpreting Physics
Author: Edward MacKinnon
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400723695
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This book is the first to offer a systematic account of the role of language in the development and interpretation of physics. An historical-conceptual analysis of the co-evolution of mathematical and physical concepts leads to the classical/quatum interface. Bohrian orthodoxy stresses the indispensability of classical concepts and the functional role of mathematics. This book analyses ways of extending, and then going beyond this orthodoxy orthodoxy. Finally, the book analyzes how a revised interpretation of physics impacts on basic philosophical issues: conceptual revolutions, realism, and reductionism.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9400723695
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 274
Book Description
This book is the first to offer a systematic account of the role of language in the development and interpretation of physics. An historical-conceptual analysis of the co-evolution of mathematical and physical concepts leads to the classical/quatum interface. Bohrian orthodoxy stresses the indispensability of classical concepts and the functional role of mathematics. This book analyses ways of extending, and then going beyond this orthodoxy orthodoxy. Finally, the book analyzes how a revised interpretation of physics impacts on basic philosophical issues: conceptual revolutions, realism, and reductionism.
Meeting the Universe Halfway
Author: Karen Barad
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822339175
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
A theoretical physicist and feminist theorist, Karen Barad elaborates her theory of agential realism, a schema that is at once a new epistemology, ontology, and ethics.
Publisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822339175
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
A theoretical physicist and feminist theorist, Karen Barad elaborates her theory of agential realism, a schema that is at once a new epistemology, ontology, and ethics.
The Infamous Boundary
Author: David Wick
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780387947266
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
"Provides (an)...accurate portrait of the essence of the disputes, both epistemological and technical, that characterize contemporary inquiry. This book will profit any reader-physicist, mathematician, philosopher, or civilian-who wants a comprehensive and intelligible survey of this pesky episode in fundamental physical theory."-CHOICE "I have no hesitation in recommending this book to anyone interested in the history, philosophy or sociology of science, and it is worth adding to the library shelf on quantum theory."-PHYSICS WORLD
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 9780387947266
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 336
Book Description
"Provides (an)...accurate portrait of the essence of the disputes, both epistemological and technical, that characterize contemporary inquiry. This book will profit any reader-physicist, mathematician, philosopher, or civilian-who wants a comprehensive and intelligible survey of this pesky episode in fundamental physical theory."-CHOICE "I have no hesitation in recommending this book to anyone interested in the history, philosophy or sociology of science, and it is worth adding to the library shelf on quantum theory."-PHYSICS WORLD
The Discourse of Physics
Author: Y. J. Doran
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351721429
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This book provides a detailed model of both the discourse and knowledge of physics and offers insights toward developing pedagogy that improves how physics is taught and learned. Building on a rich history of applying a Systemic Functional Linguistics approach to scientific discourse, the book uses an SFL framework, here extended to encompass the more recently developed Systemic Functional Multimodal Discourse Analysis approach, to explore the field’s multimodal nature and offer detailed descriptions of three of its key semiotic resources – language, image, and mathematics. To complement the book’s SFL underpinnings, Doran draws on the sociological framework of Legitimation Code Theory, which offers tools for understanding the principles of how knowledge is developed and valued, to explore the manifestation of knowledge in physics specifically and its relationship with discourse. Through its detailed descriptions of the key semiotic resources and its analysis of the knowledge structure of physics, this book is an invaluable resource for graduate students and researchers in multimodality, discourse analysis, educational linguistics, and science education.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351721429
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This book provides a detailed model of both the discourse and knowledge of physics and offers insights toward developing pedagogy that improves how physics is taught and learned. Building on a rich history of applying a Systemic Functional Linguistics approach to scientific discourse, the book uses an SFL framework, here extended to encompass the more recently developed Systemic Functional Multimodal Discourse Analysis approach, to explore the field’s multimodal nature and offer detailed descriptions of three of its key semiotic resources – language, image, and mathematics. To complement the book’s SFL underpinnings, Doran draws on the sociological framework of Legitimation Code Theory, which offers tools for understanding the principles of how knowledge is developed and valued, to explore the manifestation of knowledge in physics specifically and its relationship with discourse. Through its detailed descriptions of the key semiotic resources and its analysis of the knowledge structure of physics, this book is an invaluable resource for graduate students and researchers in multimodality, discourse analysis, educational linguistics, and science education.
The Physics of Energy
Author: Robert L. Jaffe
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107016657
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 897
Book Description
A comprehensive and unified introduction to the science of energy sources, uses, and systems for students, scientists, engineers, and professionals.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107016657
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 897
Book Description
A comprehensive and unified introduction to the science of energy sources, uses, and systems for students, scientists, engineers, and professionals.
Doing Physics--Doing Gender
Author: Anna T. Danielsson
Publisher: Anna Teresia Danielsson
ISBN: 9155474543
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
Publisher: Anna Teresia Danielsson
ISBN: 9155474543
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description