Download or read book Physics and Necessity written by Olivier Darrigol and published by Oxford University Press (UK). This book was released on 2014 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recounts a few ingenious attempts to derive physical theories by reason only, beginning with Descartes' geometric construction of the world, and finishing with recent derivations of quantum mechanics from natural axioms.