Foundations of Physics

AbstractTHERE is a type of theoretical physics which consists in the mechanical use of mathematical apparatus; it is to be met with at all stages. The intermediate student develops a fatal facility in the handling of l/v + l/u = 1/f, knowing little and caring less about the physics that is involved. Later, his theoretical physics is summed up in certain differential equations of the second order and, arrived at the boundaries of his subject, we may see him later still employing the most recent technique in matrix theory and in vector algebra, finding in this technique an instrument for saving, rather than for stimulating, thought.Foundations of Physics By Prof. R. B. Lindsay Prof. H. Margenau. Pp. xiv + 537. (New York: John Wiley and Sons, Inc.; London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1936.) 22s. 6d. net.