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Physical Reality and Mathematical Description

Dedicated to Josef Maria Jauch on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday

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  • © 1974

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Editors:
  1. Charles P. Enz

    1. Département de Physique Théorique, Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland

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  2. Jagdish Mehra

    1. Instituts Internationaux de Physique et de Chimie (Solvay), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

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Table of contents (34 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Art, History and Philosopy

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Science and Art

      • André Mercier
      Pages 3-21

    3. Leonard De Vinci et L'Hydrodynamique

      • P. Speziali
      Pages 22-36

    4. Our knowledge of the External World

      • Jagdish Mehra
      Pages 37-46

    5. Geometrie und Physik

      • C.F. von Weizsacker
      Pages 48-90

    6. Quantum Physics and Process Metaphysics

      • David Finkelstein
      Pages 91-99

    7. What Happened to our Elementary Particles? (Variations on a Theme of Jauch)

      • R. Hagedorn
      Pages 100-110

    8. Partons - Elementary Constituents of the Proton?

      • Sidney D. Drell
      Pages 111-123

    9. Is the Zero-Point Energy Real?

      • Charles P. Enz
      Pages 124-132

    10. Reflections on “Fundamentality and Complexity”

      • Max Dresden
      Pages 133-166

  3. Mathematical Physics

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 167-167
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    2. Weights on Spaces

      • E.R. Gerelle, R.J. Greechie, F.R. Miller
      Pages 169-192

    3. Second Look at the Essential Selfadjointness of the Schrodinger Operators

      • Tosio Kato
      Pages 193-201

    4. Some Absolutely Continuous Operators

      • P.A. Rejto
      Pages 202-225

    5. A remark on the Kochen-Specker Theorem

      • A. Lenard
      Pages 226-233

    6. Die Heisenberg-Weylschen Vertauschungsrelationen : Zum Beweis des von Neumannschen Satzes

      • Res Jost
      Pages 234-238

    7. Real Versus Complex Representations and Linear-Antilinear Commutant

      • R. Ascoli, G. Teppati, C. Garola, L. Solombrino
      Pages 239-251

  4. Scattering Theory and Field Theory

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 253-253
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    2. Arproche algebrique de la theorie non-relativiste de la diffusion a canaux multiples

      • W.O. Amrein, V. Georgescu, Ph.A.Martin
      Pages 255-276
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About this book

This collection of essays is intended as a tribute to Josef Maria Jauch on his sixtieth birthd~. Through his scientific work Jauch has justly earned an honored name in the community of theo­ retical physicists. Through his teaching and a long line of dis­ tinguished collaborators he has put an imprint on modern mathema­ tical physics. A number of Jauch's scientific collaborators, friends and admirers have contributed to this collection, and these essays reflect to some extent Jauch's own wide interests in the vast do­ main of theoretical physics. Josef Maria Jauch was born on 20 September 1914, the son of Josef Alois and Emma (nee Conti) Jauch, in Lucerne, Switzerland. Love of science was aroused in him early in his youth. At the age of twelve he came upon a popular book on astronomy, and an exam­ ple treated in this book mystified him. It was stated that if a planet travels around a centre of Newtonian attraction with a pe­ riod T, and if that planet were stopped and left to fall into the centre from any point of the circular orbit, it would arrive at the centre in the time T/I32. Young Josef puzzled about this for several months until he made his first scientific discovery : that this result could be derived from Kepler's third law in a quite elementary way.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Département de Physique Théorique, Université de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland

    Charles P. Enz

  • Instituts Internationaux de Physique et de Chimie (Solvay), Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium

    Jagdish Mehra

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