Article ID: CBB000340891

Number and Measure: Hermann von Helmholtz at the Crossroads of Mathematics, Physics, and Psychology (2003)

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Description Attempts to situate Helmholtz's contribution within the context of nineteenth-century philosophies of number, quantity, and measurement.


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Authors & Contributors
Schmidgen, Henning
Petsche, Hans-Joachim
Hyder, David Jalal
Wang, Xiaofei
Wise, M. Norton
Wegener, Daan
Journals
Science in Context
Historia Mathematica
Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
Nuncius: Annali di Storia della Scienza
Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences
Publishers
Birkhäuser
Walter de Gruyter
Merve-Verl.
Birkhäuser Verlag
University of California, Berkeley
Harvard University
Concepts
Mathematics
Philosophy of mathematics
Physics
Arithmetic
Measurement
Linguistics; philology
People
Helmholtz, Hermann Ludwig Ferdinand von
Du Bois-Reymond, Emil Heinrich
Grassmann, Hermann Günther
Grassmann, Robert
Virchow, Rudolf Carl
Zöllner, Johann Karl Friedrich
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, late
20th century, early
Places
Germany
Great Britain
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