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.
Giannini, Giulia
Klein, Christian Felix
de Saint-Gervais, Henri Paul
Brading, Katherine
Vizgin, Vladimir P.
Journals
Ziran Kexueshi Yanjiu (Studies in the History of Natural Sciences)
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science Part B: Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics
Rivista di Storia della Scienza
Revue d'Histoire des Mathématiques
Physis: Rivista Internazionale di Storia della Scienza
Physics in Perspective
Publishers
Reidel
Guaraldi
E.N.S.
Congedo
New York, City University of
American Mathematical Society
Concepts
Geometry
Mathematics
Physics
Mathematicians
Philosophy of mathematics
Relativity, general
People
Weyl, Hermann
Hilbert, David
Riemann, Georg Friedrich Bernhard
Einstein, Albert
Poincaré, Jules Henri
Levi-Civita, Tullio
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
Places
Germany
Italy
Europe
Institutions
Göttingen. Universität
Universität Göttingen
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