Books by Werner Heisenberg

Explains the central ideas of the quantum revolution and uncertainty principle. This book reveals how words and concepts familiar in daily life can lose their meaning in the world of relativity and quantum physics.

Are the problems we define and pursue freely chosen according to our conscious interests? Or does the historical process itself determine which phenomena merit examination at any one time? This title discusses these issues in the far-ranging philosophical terms, while illustrating them with specific examples.