NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #30/NN_1992_30.iso/spool/sci/physics/21063

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Subject: Re: Physics World - Digest of December issue
Date: 14 Dec 1992 00:34:02 GMT
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (M Ware - IOP Publishing) writes:
|> Physics minus maths?
|>
|> Do people need to study maths to pursue a degree in physics? Not
|> necessarily, says Peter Rice-Evans, a professor in the University
|> of London. The subject has to compete for the interest of young
|> people alongside non-quantitative disciplines such as history and
|> law: in the UK and elsewhere, physics is finding it tough going.
|> But the success of recent best-sellers such as Hawking's A brief
|> history of time suggests that many lively minds could be
|> attracted into a non-mathematical course as a precursor to jobs
|> in areas currently dominated by arts and humanities graduates.
|> He argues that new degree courses should be developed along these
|> lines.(p15)
|>
|> Contact: Peter Rice-Evans, Royal Holloway and Bedford College
|> [phone]

I've seen some books discussing physics in layman's terms. There are so
many undefined concepts! So many leaps of logic! Where can I get more
detailed works without having to deal with anything mathematical? I don't
even know what a tensor is (among other things).

Henry Choy
[e-mail]