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'Amit Hagar's Discrete or Continuous?: The Quest for Fundamental Length in Modern Physics takes the reader on an enjoyable journey - by turns historical, philosophical, and physical - in a quest to unravel many of the subtleties that underlie the concept of a minimum length in physics.' Luis J. Garay, Physics Today 'The author's discourse is not centered in philosophy or physics, but rather in the attempts to resolve quantum mechanics and general relativity. Throughout the work, Hagar does a good job of showing how complicated this issue is without burying the reader in technical points.' E. Kincanon, Choice '... this book is a comprehensive and even-handed exposition of the mathematical and philosophical formulations of theoretical physics in terms of discrete or continuous space-time structures. It spans the analyses of the subject from the ancient Greeks thought to the present day: from Zeno (450BC) to several discussions published as late as 2013. The monograph is extremely well referenced and cites some 550 articles and books.' Richard Keesing, Contemporary Physics

'Amit Hagar's Discrete or Continuous?: The Quest for Fundamental Length in Modern Physics takes the reader on an enjoyable journey - by turns historical, philosophical, and physical - in a quest to unravel many of the subtleties that underlie the concept of a minimum length in physics.' Luis J. Garay, Physics Today 'The author's discourse is not centered in philosophy or physics, but rather in the attempts to resolve quantum mechanics and general relativity. Throughout the work, Hagar does a good job of showing how complicated this issue is without burying the reader in technical points.' E. Kincanon, Choice '... this book is a comprehensive and even-handed exposition of the mathematical and philosophical formulations of theoretical physics in terms of discrete or continuous space-time structures. It spans the analyses of the subject from the ancient Greeks thought to the present day: from Zeno (450BC) to several discussions published as late as 2013. The monograph is extremely well referenced and cites some 550 articles and books.' Richard Keesing, Contemporary Physics Amit Hagar's Discrete or Continuous?: The Quest for Fundamental Length in Modern Physics takes the reader on an enjoyable journey - by turns historical, philosophical, and physical - in a quest to unravel many of the subtleties that underlie the concept of a minimum length in physics. Luis J. Garay, Physics Today The author's discourse is not centered in philosophy or physics, but rather in the attempts to resolve quantum mechanics and general relativity. Throughout the work, Hagar does a good job of showing how complicated this issue is without burying the reader in technical points. E. Kincanon, Choice ... this book is a comprehensive and even-handed exposition of the mathematical and philosophical formulations of theoretical physics in terms of discrete or continuous space-time structures. It spans the analyses of the subject from the ancient Greeks thought to the present day: from Zeno (450BC) to several discussions published as late as 2013. The monograph is extremely well referenced and cites some 550 articles and books. Richard Keesing, Contemporary Physics

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Amit Hagar is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, Indiana University, Bloomington, where he specializes in the foundations of modern physics.

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