Levels of Infinity: Selected Writings on Mathematics and Philosophy - Brossura

Weyl, Hermann

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0486489035 ISBN 13: 9780486489032

Casa editrice: Dover Pubns, 2013

Riassunto

This original anthology assembles eleven accessible essays by a giant of modern mathematics. Hermann Weyl (1885–1955) made lasting contributions to number theory as well as theoretical physics, and he was associated with Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, the University of Göttingen, and ETH Zurich. Spanning the 1930s–50s, these articles offer insights into logic and relativity theory in addition to reflections on the work of Weyl's mentor, David Hilbert, and his friend Emmy Noether.
Subjects include "Topology and Abstract Algebra as Two Roads of Mathematical Comprehension," "The Mathematical Way of Thinking," "Relativity Theory as a Stimulus in Mathematical Research," and "Why is the World Four-Dimensional?" Historians of mathematics, advanced undergraduates, and graduate students will appreciate these writings, many of which have been long unavailable to English-language readers.

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Contenuti:

Introduction Levels of Infinity (1931) Topology and Abstract Algebra as Two Roads of Mathematical Comprehension (1932) Emmy Noether (1935) The Mathematical Way of Thinking (1940) David Hilbert (1862-1943) (1944) David Hilbert and His Mathematical Work (1944) Mathematics and Logic (1946) Relativity Theory as a Stimulus in Mathematical Research (1949) A Half-Century of Mathematics (1953) Axiomatic versus Constructive Procedures in Mathematics (1953) Why is the World Four-Dimensional? (1955) References

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Book by Hermann Weyl Peter Pesic

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• Editore: Dover Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0486489035
• ISBN 13: 9780486489032
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 240
• Redattore: Pesic Peter