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Nature 446, 376 (22 March 2007) | doi:10.1038/446376a; Published online 21 March 2007

The age of chance

Arthur Fine1

BOOK REVIEWEDUncertainty: Einstein, Heisenberg, Bohr, and the Struggle for the Soul of Science

by David Lindley

Doubleday: 2007. 272 pp. $26

In Uncertainty, David Lindley tells the intriguing tale of how Albert Einstein, Werner Heisenberg and Niels Bohr (among others) struggled to create and understand the new quantum physics. Lindley organizes his tale around the issue of indeterminism, which Max Born raised in 1926 in the paper that introduced probability as fundamental to interpreting the quantum world.

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