Article ID: CBB575014368

The Constitution of Weyl’s Pure Infinitesimal World Geometry (2022)

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Hermann Weyl was one of the most important figures involved in the early elaboration of the general theory of relativity and its fundamentally geometrical space-time picture of the world. Weyl’s further development of “pure infinitesimal geometry” out of relativity theory was the basis of his remarkable attempt at unifying gravitation and electromagnetism. Many interpreters have focused primarily on Weyl’s philosophical influences, especially the influence of Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology, as the motivation for these efforts. In this article, I argue both that these efforts are most naturally understood as an outgrowth of the distinctive mathematical-physical tradition in Göttingen and that phenomenology has little to no constructive role to play in them.

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Authors & Contributors
Scholz, Erhard
Mormann, Thomas
Katz, Mikhail G.
Vrhovski, Jan
Kati Kish Bar-On
Weyl, Hermann
Concepts
Philosophy of mathematics
Mathematics
Philosophy of science
Geometry
Infinitesimals
Relativity, general
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century, late
17th century
18th century
Places
Germany
England
United States
France
China
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