Hermann Weyl’s Raum - Zeit - Materie and a General Introduction to His Scientific Work

Hermann Weyl’s Raum - Zeit - Materie and a General Introduction to His Scientific Work herausgegeben von Erhard Scholz.

Historical interest and studies of Weyl's role in the interplay between 20th-century mathematics, physics and philosophy have been increasing since the middle 1980s, triggered by different activities at the occasion of the centenary of his birth in 1985, and are far from being exhausted. The pr...

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Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Scholz, Erhard (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2001.
Edition:1st ed. 2001.
Series:Oberwolfach Seminars, 30
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Subjects:
Mathematics.
History.
Differential geometry.
Topological groups.
Lie groups.
Group theory.
Algebraic topology.
Manifolds (Mathematics).
Complex manifolds.
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Table of Contents:
  • I Historical Aspects of Weyl's Raum - Zeit - Materie
  • 1 Journeys in spacetime Sigurdsson
  • 2 Weyls Infinitesimalgeometrie, 1917-1925 (Erhard Scholz)
  • 3 Weyl's contributions to cosmology (Hubert Goenner)
  • 4 Ursprünge der Eichtheorien (Norbert Straumann)
  • II Hermann Weyl: Mathematician, Physicist, Philosopher (Robert Coleman and Herbert Kortä
  • 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
  • Authors.

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