Popular lectures

The book contains the most popular lectures of the famous Austrian theoretical physicist, one of the creators of quantum mechanics read in different years.
The publication embraces the three main topics.
In the first part, Schrödinger from the standpoint of theoretical physics discusses the general problems of the physical approach to various phenomena of life, the causes of macroscopicity, multi - -tower of the body, the mechanism of heredity and mutations. Lectures what is life (1944)
The second part includes lectures describing the state of affairs in physics, which has developed as a result of the gradual development of science by the mid-50s of the XX century, revealing the attitude of the Schrödinger to scientific achievements as the desire of a person to know his place in the universe. Lectures Science and Humanism (1951)
In the third part, the author affects questions about the role of science in human life, the value of scientific knowledge and the ethics of the teacher, questions of the relationship of reason and matter, form and content, differences in modern physics from the views of scientists" era "" doxantry physics". Lectures of reason and matter (1956)
The book is addressed to a wide circle of readers interested in the global problems of science and philosophy