The Language of Physics : The Calculus and the Development of Theoretical Physics in Europe, 1750-1914

Elizabeth Garber

ISBN 10: 0817640398 / ISBN 13: 9780817640392

Edité par Birkhauser Boston Dez 1998, 1998

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Neuware - This work is the first explicit examination of the key role that mathematics has played in the development of theoretical physics and will undoubtedly challenge the more conventional accounts of its historical development. Although mathematics has long been regarded as the 'language' of physics, the connections between these independent disciplines have been far more complex and intimate than previous narratives have shown. The author convincingly demonstrates that practices, methods, and language shaped the development of the field, and are a key to understanding the mergence of the modern academic discipline. Mathematicians and physicists, as well as historians of both disciplines, will find this provocative work of great interest.

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• Titre: The Language of Physics : The Calculus and the Development of Theoretical Physics in Europe, 1750-1914
• Éditeur: Birkhauser Boston Dez 1998
• Date de parution: 1998
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0817640398
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780817640392
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu

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This work is the first explicit examination of the key role that mathematics has played in the development of theoretical physics and will undoubtedly challenge the more conventional accounts of its historical development. Although mathematics has long been regarded as the "language" of physics, the connections between these independent disciplines have been far more complex and intimate than previous narratives have shown. The author convincingly demonstrates that practices, methods, and language shaped the development of the field, and are a key to understanding the mergence of the modern academic discipline. Mathematicians and physicists, as well as historians of both disciplines, will find this provocative work of great interest.