Substance and Function [Paperback]

E. Cassirer (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 465 pages
• Publisher: Dover Pubns (June 1980)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0486200507
• ISBN-13: 978-0486200507
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.4 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,754,049 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3.0 out of 5 stars Science and Philosophy classic, October 31, 2008

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R. Bagula "Roger L. Bagula" (Lakeside, Ca United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Substance and Function (Paperback)

In Thomas Kuhn's terms this 1923 classic is the codification of the new paradigm of relativity with a comparison of the older theories.
The theory is based on the work of basically German scientists and mathematicians : Klein, Riemann, Lorentz and Einstein with a mention or two of the Frenchman Poincare. The Italians Bianchi and Beltrami are given little credit for their contributions. What seems clear from reading this doctrine is that the paradigm shifted in spite of authors like this
and not because of them. We are again approaching a paradigm shift
in which the standard model and the dark matter/ dark energy cosmologists
will come head to head. The quantum information and information theory
doctrine is also boiling over in an entirely new direction
from the Boolean / symbolic doctrines found in set theory.
Once the change comes about this text will be much more obsolete
than it is now. Mathematics and physics makes slow progress,
but it is steady. If civilization survives a new quantum paradigm
based on understanding of the early universe is ahead.