Concepts of Space and traces the developments in

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This graduate-level text develops the aspects of group theory most relevant to physics and chemistry (such as the theory of representations) and illustrates their applications to quantum mechanics

Concepts of Space and traces the developments inAlthough the concept of space is of fundamental importance in both physics and philosophy, until the publication of this book, the idea of space had never been treated in terms of its historical development. It remained for Dr. Jammer, noted scholar and historian of science, to trace the evolution of the idea of space in this comprehensive, thought provoking study. The focus of the book is on physical, rather than metaphysical, ideas of space;