'The whole book is candid and stimulating and, for both its subject and its treatment, one of the best that Mr Russell has given us.' - The Times

One of the earliest and best philosophical studies of the new physics of relativity and quantum mechanics, The Analysis of Matter was a companion volume to the The Analysis of Mind , which had provided a similar service for psychology. In an attempt to demonstrate the logical structure of the world, he develops his views about the philosophy of science out of the theories of such scientists as Einstein, Bohr and Heisenberg.