Analogies In Physics And Life: A Scientific Autobiography - Weiner, Richard M (Univ Of Marburg, Germany a Univ Paris-sud, France)

Analogies play a fundamental role in science. To understand how and why, at a given moment, a certain analogy was used, one has to know the specific, historical circumstances under which the new idea was developed. This book discusses a series of analogy effects in subatomic physics.