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Scientific Inference - Rilegato

Jeffreys, Harold

 
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A consistent 1931 account of how the theories proposed by physicists have been derived from, and are supported by, experimental data.

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Descrizione del libro

A scientific theory is originally based on a particular set of observations. How can it be extended to apply outside this original range of cases? This fundamental of natural philosophy, is considered in this book, which was originally published in 1931, and first published as this third edition in 1973.

Contenuti

Preface to the third edition; Preface to the second edition; Preface to the first edition; 1. Logic and scientific inference; 2. Probability; 3. Sampling; 4. Errors; 5. Physical magnitudes; 6. Mensuration; 7. Newtonian dynamics; 8. Light and relativity; 9. Miscellaneous questions; 10. Statistical mechanics and quantum theory; Appendices; Index.

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