Oxford & New York: Oxford University Press, 1999. NEW and unread in a bright and shiny New dust jacket. PERFECT condition. Square and tight. Sharp corners. NOT a remainder. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are fresh, crisp, clean and unmarked -- obviously never read. Illustrated with diagrams. Footnotes. Bibliographical references. Name Index. Subject Index. Bound in the original orange-stamped brown boards. Complete with dust jacket. From the publisher: "Physics was transformed between 1890 and 1930, and this volume provides a detailed history of the era and emphasizes the key role of geometrical ideas. The first part of the book discusses the application of n-dimensional differential geometry to mechanics and theoretical physics, the philosophical questions on the reality of geometry, and reviews the broad international debate about the nature of geometry and its connections with psychology. The second part then examines the reception of Einstein's theory of special relativity following 1905. It covers Minkowski's reformulation of the theory, providing the first complete picture of his work, and it describes Einstein's path to formulating general relativity. The chapter on Hilbert's efforts to axiomatize relativity argues against the traditional view of Hilbert as arch-formalist, and the following chapter provides the first detailed account of Emmy Noether's work on physics. The final section examines the work by Ricci, Levi-Civita, and Weyl to give a new formulation of general relativity in terms of the Riemann differential. This collection will be an invaluable resource for historians and philosophers of science.". First Printing of the First Edition. Hardcover. New condition/New dust jacket. 8vo. xii, 289pp. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping.

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Titolo

The Symbolic Universe: Geometry and Physics 1890-1930

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Oxford University Press, Oxford & New York

Data di pubblicazione

1999

Lingua

Inglese

ISBN 10

0198500882

ISBN 13

9780198500889

Rilegatura

Hardcover

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First Printing of the First Edition.

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New condition

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With the development of the theory of relativity by Albert Einstein, physics underwent a revolution at the end of the 19th century. The boundaries of research were extended still further when in 1907-8 Minkowski applied geometrical ideas to this area of physics. This in turn opened the door to other researchers seeking to use non-Euclidean geometrical methods in relativity, and many notable mathematicians did so, Weyl in particular linking these ideas with broader philosophical issues in mathematics. The Symbolic Universe gives an overview of this exciting era, giving a full account for the first time of Minkowski's geometric reformulation of the theory of special relativity.

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Dr Jeremy J. Gray, Senior Lecturer in Mathematics, Faculty of Mathematics and Computing, Open University, Milton Keynes, MK7 6AA. j.j.gray@open.ac.uk

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