Books by Max Jammer
“I picked Max Jammer’s book because it’s still one of my favourites. When I was an academic scientist, I wrote a paper with a colleague and it won a prize and I spent the prize money on The Philosophy of Quantum Mechanics, and I’ve never regretted it. It was an expensive book in those days. Whenever I’m working on a project—and it doesn’t necessarily even have to be about quantum mechanics, it can be about reality or it can be about philosophy—more often than not I’ll reach for it. It’s an excellent book.” Read more...
The best books on Quantum Physics and Reality
Jim Baggott, Science Writer
Interviews where books by Max Jammer were recommended
The best books on Quantum Physics and Reality, recommended by Jim Baggott
Quantum physics is deeply confusing and its relation to reality the cause of heated debate among physicists since its discovery. Here, science writer Jim Baggott—who has spent more than three decades thinking about quantum mechanics and written a number of books about it—recommends books for better understanding what it’s about, and explains why how physicists approach it is so crucial to science’s credibility.
Jim Baggott on Writing about Physics
Contemporary physics is so complex that no single physicist can be said to have a decent grasp of the full picture. This makes communicating physics a formidable challenge. Acclaimed popular science writer, Jim Baggott, talks us through this challenge by discussing his favourite physics books.
