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1 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Science and Philosophy classic,
By R. Bagula "Roger L. Bagula" (Lakeside, Ca United States) - See all my reviews (VINE VOICE) (REAL NAME)
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. |
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Substance and Function by E. Cassirer (Paperback - June 1980)
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