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 present book takes Weyl's "Raum - Zeit - Materie" (Space - Time - Matter) as center of concentration and starting field for a broader look at his work. The contributions in the first part of this volume discuss Weyl's deep involvement in relativity, cosmology and matter theories between the classical unified field theories and quantum physics from the perspective of a creative mind struggling against theories of nature restricted by the view of classical determinism. In the second part of this volume, a broad and detailed introduction is given to Weyl's work in the mathematical sciences in general and in philosophy. It covers the whole range of Weyl's mathematical and physical interests: real analysis, complex function theory and Riemann surfaces, elementary ergodic theory, foundations of mathematics, differential geometry, general relativity, Lie groups, quantum mechanics, and number theory.
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Hermann Weyl, Weyl's Raumproblem, University Press, Postulate of Freedom, Analyse des Raumproblems, Received View, Felix Klein, New York, Erhard Scholz, Law of Inertia, Weyl Raumproblem, Mieschen Theorie, Diracschen Theorie, Encyclopedia Britannica, Erlanger Programme, Historical Studies, Nachrichten Gesellschaft, Physikalische Zeitschrift, Clarendon Press, Collected Papers, Collected Works, Great War, Laufe des Jahres, Physical Review, Sitzungsberichte Preuss New!
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- The Theory of Relativity: & Other Essays by Albert Einstein on 14 pages
- The Quantum Theory of Fields (Volume 1) by Steven Weinberg in Front Matter (1), Front Matter (2), and Back Matter
- Gauge Theory and Variational Principles (Dover Books on Mathematics) by David Bleecker in Front Matter, and page 98
- The Disunity of Science: Boundaries, Contexts, and Power (Writing Science) by Peter Galison on page 41, and page 42
- Dreams of a Final Theory: The Scientist's Search for the Ultimate Laws of Nature by Steven Weinberg on page 20, and page 47
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