David Bohm: Causality and Chance, Letters to Three Women

Download or read book David Bohm: Causality and Chance, Letters to Three Women written by Chris Talbot and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-04-17 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The letters transcribed in this book were written by physicist David Bohm to three close female acquaintances in the period 1950 to 1956. They provide a background to his causal interpretation of quantum mechanics and the Marxist philosophy that inspired his scientific work in quantum theory, probability and statistical mechanics. In his letters, Bohm reveals the ideas that led to his ground breaking book Causality and Chance in Modern Physics. The political arguments as well as the acute personal problems contained in these letters help to give a rounded, human picture of this leading scientist and twentieth century thinker.