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  title info:
    title: Interactions
    sub title: Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy, 1860–1930
  name:
    name part: Hendricks, Vincent F.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Jørgensen, Klaus Frovin.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Lützen, Jesper.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: Pedersen, Stig Andur.
    role:
      role term: editor.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2006
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XIV, 338 p. online resource.
  abstract: This is an outstanding collection of original essays. All of them concern the history and philosophy of mathematics and physics in the years from 1870 to 1930. More specifically, they are intellectual histories of the interactions between the three disciplines, philosophy, mathematics and physics, in that period. And as the essays bring out, what a period it was: of both ferment and synergy, heat and light! Most of the giants - especially Helmholtz, Hertz, Poincare, Hilbert, Einstein and Weyl - are here: engaging not just in physics and mathematics but also in philosophy, often together, or with figures like Schlick. The editors are to be congratulated on a major contribution to our understanding of one of the most complex but fertile periods in the history of all three disciplines. - Jeremy Butterfield, University of Cambridge This stimulating volume covers a wide range of topics which are of direct interest to anyone who thinks about the curious relation between mathematics and the natural world. Philosophers often pose interesting questions about the "dispensability" of mathematics to science. But they too often overlook the wealth of philosophical perplexities that can arise in detailed examples and case studies, both contemporary and historical. This volume refocuses our attention by addressing a number of topics connected to applied mathematics, any one of which is worthy of every philosopher’s attention. - James Robert Brown, University of Toronto What to make of neo-Kantianism in its hey-day, from 1840-1940? It was the most prolific of times and the most seminal, it was the most muddled and confused, it is philosophy working at its hardest with science and most damagingly against science. It is examined here episodically, as it engaged individual scientists: Helmholtz, , Hertz, Poincare, Minkowski, Hilbert, Eddington and Weyl. If Einstein is not in their number, he had to contend with their influence, and anyway he transformed their agenda. The essays on the…
  table of contents: Kant, Helmholtz and the Determinacy of Physical Notes -- A Mechanical Image: Heinrich Hertz's Principles of Mechanics -- From Classical to Relativistic Mechanics: Electromagnetic Models of the Electron -- Enriques: Popularising Science and the Problems of Geometry -- Hilbert's Axiomatic Approach to the Foundations of Science—A Failed Research Program? -- The Space between Helmholtz and Einstein: Moritz Schlick on Spatial Intuition and the Foundations of Geometry -- Mathematical Structure, “World Structure,” and the Philosophical Turning-Point in Modern Physics -- Einstein's Allies and Enemies: Debating Relativity in Germany, 1916–1920 -- The Changing Concept of Matter in H.Weyl's Thought, 1918–1930 -- Why Does the Standard Measure Work in Statistical Mechanics?.
  note: edited by Vincent F. Hendricks, Klaus Frovin Jørgensen, Jesper Lützen, Stig Andur Pedersen.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy and science
  subject:
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy, general
  subject:
    topic: History of Mathematical Sciences
  subject:
    topic: History of Science
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy of Science
  subject:
    topic: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
  subject:
    topic: History of Philosophy
  classification: B1-5802
  classification: 100
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science ; 251
  identifier: 9781402051951
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5195-1
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    record creation date: 100301
    record change date: 20151204190722.0
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