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1、TianYuCaoConceptualDevelopmentsof20thCenturyFieldTheoriesIThisbookgivesabroadsynthesisofconceptualdevelopmentsof20thcenturyfieldtheories,fromthegeneraltheoryofrelativitytoquantumfieldtheoryandgaugetheory.Theauthorgivesahistorico-criticalexpositionoftheconceptualfoundationsoftheth
2、eories,revealingapatternintheevolutionoftheseconceptionsofnature.Theoreticalphysicistsandstudentsoftheoreticalphysicswillfindinthisbookanaccountofthefoundationalproblemsoftheirdisciplinethatwillhelpthemunderstandtheinternallogicanddynamicsoftheirsubject.Inaddition,thebookwillprov
3、ideprofessionalhistoriansandsociologistsofscience,andespeciallythoseofphysics,withaconceptualbasisforfurtherhistorical,cultural,andsociologicalanalysesofthetheoriesdiscussed.Thebookalsocontainsmuchmaterialforphilosophical(metaphysical,methodological,andsemantical)reflection.Final
4、ly,thescientificallyqualifiedgeneralreaderwillfindinthisbookadeeperanalysisofcontemporaryconceptionsofthephysicalworldthancanbefoundinpopularaccountsofthesubject.Thisfascinatingaccountofakeypartofcontemporarymathematicalphysicswillbeofgreatinteresttophysicists,historians,philosop
5、hers,andsociologistsofscienceatarangeoflevelsfromtheprofessionalresearcheratoneendofthescaletotheeducatedgeneralreaderattheother.Pre-publicationreviewsInthisprofoundbutreadabletreatise,ProfessorCaoobservesthataconsistentdescriptionofallobservedphenomenaofthemicroworldisathand.Thi
6、sso-calledstandardmodelemergedfromacomplexinterplaybetweenexperimentandtheory.Inrecentdecades,experimentalists,withimmensefortitudeandgenerousfunding,identifiedandstudiedwhatappeartobethebasicbuildingblocksofmatterandtheforcestheyexperience.Meanwhile,theoristscreatedandrefinedama
7、thematicalframework-quantumfieldtheory-intermsofwhichthestandardmodelisex-pressed.Inallconfrontationswithexperiment,thestandardmodelemergestrium-phant.Andyet,toomanyquestionsremainunaddressedforittobethelastword.Manytheoreticalphysicistsbelieveanentirelynewtheoreticalsystemtobene
8、eded-superstringtheory,orsomethinglikeit
