Hermann Weyl's Raum - Zeit - Materie and a General Introduction to his Scientific Work (Oberwolfach Seminars)

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Hermann Weyl's Raum - Zeit - Materie and a General Introduction to his Scientific Work (Oberwolfach Seminars)

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Historical interest and studies of Weyl's role in the interplay between 20th-century mathematics, physics and philosophy have been increasing since the middle 1980s, triggered by different activities at the occasion of the centenary of his birth in 1985, and are far from being exhausted. The present book takes Weyl's "Raum - Zeit - Materie" (Space - Time - Matter) as center of concentration and starting field for a broader look at his work. The contributions in the first part of this volume discuss Weyl's deep involvement in relativity, cosmology and matter theories between the classical unified field theories and quantum physics from the perspective of a creative mind struggling against theories of nature restricted by the view of classical determinism. In the second part of this volume, a broad and detailed introduction is given to Weyl's work in the mathematical sciences in general and in philosophy. It covers the whole range of Weyl's mathematical and physical interests: real analysis, complex function theory and Riemann surfaces, elementary ergodic theory, foundations of mathematics, differential geometry, general relativity, Lie groups, quantum mechanics, and number theory.

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Birkhäuser Basel
Language
English, German
Pages
403

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Hermann Weyl's Raum - Zeit - Materie and a General Introduction to his Scientific Work (Oberwolfach Seminars)
March 1, 2001, Birkhäuser Basel
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"The happiest thought of Einstein's life was when he imagined falling freely in space, thus fathoming the equivalence principle (Pais 1982, 178)."

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QA1-939, QA21-27

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Paperback
Number of pages
403
Dimensions
9.2 x 6.6 x 1.1 inches
Weight
1.6 pounds

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OL9803896M
ISBN 10
3764364769
ISBN 13
9783764364762
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6453202
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1929203

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