Publication

1999 - Birkhäuser, Boston, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

99,750 words, Guess

Page Count

399 pages

Identifiers

  • Open LibraryOL354287M
  • ISBN-100817640398
  • OCLC Control Number38573638
  • Library of Congress Control Number98014004
  • LibraryThing9451221
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  • Goodreads3611850

Classifications

  • DDC530.15/094/09034
  • LCCQC19.6 .G37 1999

Description

This work is the first explicit examination of the key role that mathematics has played in the development of theoretical physics and will undoubtedly challenge the more conventional accounts of its historical development. Although mathematics has long been regarded as the "language" of physics, the connections between these independent disciplines have been far more complex and intimate than previous narratives have shown. This study encompasses engagements across discipline boundaries and many nations from the era of Euler and Bernoulli to that of Hilbert and Einstein. Mathematicians and physicists, as well as historians of both disciplines, will find this provocative work of great interest.

First Sentence

This book traces and explains the development of modern physics from the mid-eighteenth century to the first world war.

Subjects

Topics

HistoryScience, historyScience, philosophyMathematical physicsMathematical physics -- Europe -- History -- 18th century.Mathematical physics -- Europe -- History -- 19th century.

Places

Other Editions

  • The language of physicsBirkhäuser1999

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