Book ID: CBB000083033

The symbolic universe: Geometry and physics, 1890-1930 (1999)

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Gray, Jeremy (Editor)


Oxford University Press


Publication Date: 1999
Physical Details: xii + 289 pp.; notes; index

Description Contents: Gray, Jeremy: Introduction. Lützen, Jesper: Geometrising configurations: Heinrich Hertz and his mathematical precursors. Miller, Arthur: Einstein, Poincaré, and the testability of geometry. Gray, Jeremy: Geometry: Formalisms and intuitions. Walter, Scott: The non-Euclidean style of Minkowskian relativity. Norton, John D.: Geometries in collision: Einstein, Klein, and Riemann. Corry, Leo: Hilbert and physics (1900-1915). Rowe, David: The Göttingen response to general relativity and Emmy Noether's theorems. Bottazzini, Umberto: Ricci and Levi-Civita: From differential invariants to general relativity. Scholz, Erhard; Weyl and the theory of connections.


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Authors & Contributors
Rowe, David E.
Cattani, Carlo
Corry, Leo
Darrigol, Olivier
Eckes, Christophe
Goodstein, Judith R.
Journals
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
British Journal for the Philosophy of Science
Endeavour: Review of the Progress of Science
Historia Mathematica
HOPOS
NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Publishers
American Mathematical Society
Congedo
E.N.S.
Guaraldi
Reidel
Concepts
Geometry
Mathematics
Physics
Relativity, general
Algebra
Philosophy of mathematics
People
Weyl, Hermann
Einstein, Albert
Hilbert, David
Riemann, Georg Friedrich Bernhard
Noether, Emmy
Klein, Felix
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
Places
Germany
Europe
Italy
Institutions
University of Chicago
Universität Göttingen
Göttingen. Universität
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