The symbolic universe : geometry and physics 1890-1930

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Other Authors : Gray Jeremy John (Éditeur scientifique)
Format : Book
Language : anglais
Title statement : The symbolic universe : geometry and physics 1890-1930 / edited by Jeremy Gray
Published : Oxford, New York : Oxford University Press , cop. 1999
Physical Description : 1 vol. (XII-289 p.)
Content : Geometrising configurations. Heinrich Hertz and his mathematical precursors / Jesper LÉutzen. Einstein, Poincaré, and the testability of geometry / Arthur Miller. Geometry--formalisms and intuitions / Jeremy Gray. The non-Euclidean style of Minkowskian relativity / Scott Walter. Geometries in collison : Einstein, Klein and Riemann / John D. Norton. Hilbert and physics (1900-1915) / Leo Corry. The GÉottingen response to general relativity and Emmy Noether's theorems / David Rowe. Ricci and Levi-Civita : from differential invariants to general relativity / Umberto Bottazzini. Weyl and the theory of connections / Erhard Scholz
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