The Dialectic Relation Between Physics and Mathematics in the XIXth Century

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Barbin, Evelyne (Editor), Pisano, Raffaele (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
• Series: History of Mechanism and Machine Science, 16
• Subjects: Physics.; Epistemology.; Mathematics.; History.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; History of Mathematical Sciences.; Mathematical Methods in Physics.

The aim of this book is to analyse historical problems related to the use of mathematics in physics as well as to the use of physics in mathematics and to investigate Mathematical Physics as precisely the new discipline which is concerned with this dialectical link itself. So the main question is: W...