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Interactions: Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy, 1860-1930

By Vincent F. Hendricks (Editor), Klaus F. Jørgensen (Editor), Jesper Lützen (Editor), Stig A. Pedersen (Editor)
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By Vincent F. Hendricks (Editor), Klaus F. Jørgensen (Editor), Jesper Lützen (Editor), Stig A. Pedersen (Editor)
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This is an outstanding collection of original essays. All of them concern

the history and philosophy of mathematics and physics in the years from

1870 to 1930. More specifically, they are intellectual histories of the

interactions between the three disciplines, philosophy, mathematics and

physics, in that period. And as the essays bring out, what a period it

was: of both ferment and synergy, heat and light! Most of the

giants - especially Helmholtz, Hertz, Poincare, Hilbert, Einstein ...