The Symbolic Universe
Geometry and Physics 1890-1930
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 22 July 1999
- ISBN 9780198500889
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages302 pages
- Size 242x163x21 mm
- Weight 573 g
- Language English
- Illustrations line figures 0
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Short description:
The Symbolic Universe considers the ways in which many leading mathematicians between 1890 and 1930 attempted to apply geometry to physics. It concentrates on responses to Einstein's theories of special and general relativity, but also considers the philosophical implications of these ideas.
MoreLong description:
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.
'It's expensive, The Symbolic Universe,and it is aimed at and will probably only be understood by theoretical physicists and mathematicians. But there's a gem - embedded in this collection of surveys by international authors on the relations between physics and mathematics since the development of Einstein's theory of relativity:the introducton, by editor Jeremy Gray, which offers a masterly and approachable review of the period.'
New Scientist
Table of Contents:
PART I
Introduction
Geometrizing configurations. Heinrich Hertz and his mathematical precursors
Einstein, Poincaré, and the testability of geometry
Geometry-formalisms and intuitions
PART II
Introduction
The non-Euclidean style of Minkowskian relativity
Geometries in collision: Einstein, Klein and Riemann
Hilbert and physics (1900-1915)
The Göttingen response to general relativity and Emmy Noether's theorems
PART III
Introduction
Ricci and Levi-Civita: from differential invariants to general relativity
Weyl and the theory of connections
