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.
Concepts
Geometry
Mathematics
Physics
Mathematicians
Philosophy of mathematics
Relativity, general
Time Periods
20th century
20th century, early
19th century
Places
Germany
Italy
Europe
Institutions
Göttingen. Universität
Universität Göttingen
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