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Hermann Weyl's Raum-Zeit-Materie and a general introduction to his scientific work

Title: Hermann Weyl's Raum-Zeit-Materie and a general introduction to his scientific work / Erhard Scholz, editor, with contributions by Robert Coleman [and others].
Publication: Basel ; Boston : Birkhauser Verlag, ©2001.

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Description

vi, 403 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

"The book is addressed to mathematicians and physicists, or advanced students of these fields, as well as historians of science with an interest in the interaction of mathematics and physics in the 20th century."--Jacket.

Series Statement

DMV Seminar ; bd. 30

Uniform Title

DMV Seminar ; bd. 30.

Subject

Genre/Form

Congresses (form)
Reisensburg (1992)

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

General introduction / Erhard Scholz -- I. Historical Aspects of Weyl's Raum -- Zeit -- Materie. 1. Journeys in spacetime / Skuli Sigurdsson. 2. Weyls Infinitesimalgeometrie, 1917-1925 / Erhard Scholz. 3. Weyl's contributions to cosmology / Hubert Goenner. 4. Ursprunge der Eichtheorien / Norbert Straumann -- II. Hermann Weyl: Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher / Robert Coleman and Herbert Korte. 1. Introduction. 2. The young analyst. 3. Riemann surfaces. 4. Spacetime. 5. Group theory and its applications. 6. Foundations of mathematics -- III. Appendices -- Common Weyl Bibliography.

ISBN

3764364769
9783764364762
0817664769
9780817664763

LCCN

00048565
9783764364762

OCLC

ocm45058418
45058418
SCSB-1206952

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library