Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Note on translation
- Preface
- Epigraph
- Introduction
- 1 The exclusion principle: a philosophical overview
- 2 The origins of the exclusion principle: an extremely natural prescriptive rule
- 3 From the old quantum theory to the new quantum theory: reconsidering Kuhn's incommensurability
- 4 How Pauli's rule became the exclusion principle: from Fermi–Dirac statistics to the spin–statistics theorem
- 5 The exclusion principle opens up new avenues: from the eightfold way to quantum chromodynamics
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 07 August 2009
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Note on translation
- Preface
- Epigraph
- Introduction
- 1 The exclusion principle: a philosophical overview
- 2 The origins of the exclusion principle: an extremely natural prescriptive rule
- 3 From the old quantum theory to the new quantum theory: reconsidering Kuhn's incommensurability
- 4 How Pauli's rule became the exclusion principle: from Fermi–Dirac statistics to the spin–statistics theorem
- 5 The exclusion principle opens up new avenues: from the eightfold way to quantum chromodynamics
- Conclusion
- References
- Index
Summary
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Pauli's Exclusion PrincipleThe Origin and Validation of a Scientific Principle, pp. vii - ixPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2005